Philip Swan

Born: 1969 Place of birth: Camp Springs, Maryland Currently resides: New York, New York

My paintings are self-contained, but connected through color and compositional similarity. Architectonic in feel, they incorporate both the palette and geology of the natural world and the vertical geometries of the urban environment. In the process of creating a work, I throw compositional and aesthetic roadblocks in my path and then improvise my way to a solution, while avoiding resolving problems so thoroughly that my paintings seem pat or pretty. In leaving hints of previous misdirections imperfectly repressed, the resulting pentimento gives the work its inner life.

BA: University of Michigan
MA: College of William and Mary
MIS: University of Michigan

Selected Exhibitions (*Solo Shows)

2020

*Significant Soil, Amos Eno Gallery.
Brooklyn, NY, October 15-November 8, 2020

The Longest Distance, Amos Eno Gallery.
Brooklyn, NY, February 6 - March 1, 2020

2019

Plus One, Amos Eno Gallery,
Brooklyn, NY, November 22 - December 21.

2018

RISK, Friday Studio Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, January 5-January 26.

2017

WIZARD, Friday Studio Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, October 6-October 27.

A DARK WOOD, The Noyes Arts Garage of Stockton University, Atlantic City, NJ, January 19-April 23.

2016

A DARK WOOD, Art House Gallery, Jersey City, NJ, October 8-December 9.

THE JUNE BUGS, Friday Studio Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, June 3-June 24.

THE QUEENS CORRESPONDENCE SCHOOL, Academic Gallery, Long Island City, NY, September 2-24.


2015
WORKING ARTISTS, Academic Art Gallery, Long Island City, NY, March 13-April 3.

2014
CURATED BY NOLITA, The Nolitan Hotel, New York, NY, June 13-August 24.

2013

THE BOTTLE ROCKETS OF 2013, C.C.C.P. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, July 5-July 28.

2012

6x6x2012-SMALL ARTWORKS, Rochester Contemporary Art Center, Rochester, NY, May 30-July 6.

2011

REAL TIME, Mabel Smith Douglas Library Galleries, New Brunswick, NJ, September 1-Decem...