Phillis Ideal
Urban Energy


March 11 - April 26, 2016

Opening Reception: Friday, March 11 from 5:00 - 8:00 PM


David Richard Gallery, LLC
1570 Pacheco Street, A1, Santa Fe, NM 87505
p 505-983-9555 | f 505-983-1284
www.DavidRichardGallery.com


David Richard Gallery presents a new body of drawings, “Urban Energy”, by Phillis Ideal. Using the iPhone app Zen Brush, Ideal has created a series of gestural images that are then printed on 30 x 20 inch archival paper. Ideal’s newest artworks, “iPhone Drawings: Urban Energy” will be presented March 11 through April 26, 2016 with an opening reception with the artist on Friday, March 11 from 6:00 to 8:00 PM at David Richard Gallery located at 1570 Pacheco Street, Suite A1, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87505, phone 505-983-9555. 

ARTnews Contributing Editor Ann Landi observes “They bring to mind Asian calligraphy and ink-wash drawings, though Ideal’s shapes and squiggles refer more to the contemporary idioms of cartoons and graffiti. What is remarkable is the range of effects achieved on a tiny cell-phone screen, from snaking lines that look like they should have been made with a sweep of the arm to subtle tones that range from pale gray to blackest black.’

“Phillis’ process and methodology has always been very impressive,” says gallery co-director David Eichholtz. “Yet this new series is particularly fascinating in its use of technology while still maintaining that ‘hand-made’ quality.”

About the Artist:

Born in Roswell, New Mexico, Phillis Ideal received her BFA from the University of New Mexico and her MFA from the University of California Berkeley. In addition to a long exhibition career, she has taught at the University of New Mexico, Sarah Lawrence College In New York, the University of California Berkeley and San Francisco State College.

Her work can be found in numerous public and corporate collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Albuquerque Museum, White and Case, New York, Prudential Insurance Collection, Crocker National Bank, among others.

About David Richard Gallery:

Since its inception the gallery has produced museum quality exhibitions that feature Post War abstraction in the US. The presentations have addressed specific decades and geographies as well as certain movements and tendencies. While the gallery has long been recognized as an important proponent of post-1960s abstraction—including both the influential pioneers as well as a younger generation of practitioners in this field—in keeping with this spirit of nurture and development the gallery presents established and very new artists who embrace more gestural and representational approaches to the making of art as well as young emerging artists.

In 2015 David Richard Gallery launched DR Projects to provide a platform for artists of all stripes—international, national, local, emerging and established—to present special solo projects or to participate in unique collaborations or thematic exhibitions. The goal is to offer a fresh look at contemporary art practice from a broad spectrum of artists and presentations. 

Associated Artist

• Phillis Ideal

Associated Exhibitions

• PHILLIS IDEAL Urban Energy
  March 9, 2016 - April 9, 2016
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• May 20, 2016
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• March 15, 2016
  Digital meets analog: New drawings made on the iPhone by Phillis Ideal presented at David Richard Gallery
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• March 9, 2016
  Press Release - Phillis Ideal "Urban Energy"


• May 1, 2013
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• April 19, 2013
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