Phil Ralston

Phil Ralston is an artist who lives in Atlanta. Born in Pomona, California in 1953, he grew up feeling a strong preoccupation with artistic and creative things - with music especially. He learned to play guitar and piano during adolescence and young adulthood, but to this day he's never considered his performing abilities as anything greater than a source of personal gratification, for the most part. His feelings and thoughts about some of his favorite music, however, go a long way toward informing and shaping the development of what he has allowed himself to take rather seriously - abstract drawing. 

As a young man, he felt an admiration for artists who faithfully and adeptly portrayed the world around us, and showed some ability himself in the areas of still life, landscape, portraiture, and other realistic depiction. He also became interested in many of the movements within twentieth century modern art, and had no trouble embracing the, for some, challenging aspects of abstract expressionism, for example. While he has long felt that his ability as a pictorial depicter of our world is something he would truly love to develop, there has been, for many years now, a rather stronger focus on the challenges of abstractionism.

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Various drawing, painting, and design courses at Loyola-Marymount University, Los Angeles 1971-1973.

SOLO SHOWS
2016
Latest Work, Mason Fine Art, Atlanta

2014
New and Selected Works, Callanwolde Fine Arts Center, Atlanta, Georgia

2011
Selected Works, OK Harris, New York, New York

2010
New Drawings, Mason Murer Fine Art, Atlanta, Georgia
Selected Works, Stone Soup Kitchen, Atlanta, Georgia
Selected Works, J Costello Gallery, Hilton Head, South Carolina

2009
Works from the Pollock-Krasner Grant Period, Mason Murer Fine Art, Atlanta, Georgia

2008
Latest Works, Mason Murer Fine Art, Atlanta, Georgia

2007
Sleeping on Apollo's Porch, The Gallery at Chastain, City of Atlanta, Department of Cultural Affairs, Atlanta, Georgia

1996
New Work, Marcia Wood Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia


SELECTED GROUP SHOWS
2016
Abstraction Today, MOCA GA/The Museum of Contemporary Art Of Georgia, Atlanta

2015
Gathered: Georgia Artists Selecting Georgia Artists, MOCA GA/The Museum Of Contemporary Art of Georgia, Atlanta
Clash and Burn, One Twelve Gallery, Atlanta

2014
Georgia Artists, Abernathy Arts Center, Fulton County Department of Arts and Culture, Sandy Springs, Georgia

2012
Red, Marietta/Cobb Museum of Art, Marietta, Georgia

2009
Free Press in Free Fall, Athens Institute for Contemporary Art, A...