John Ransom Phillips: Lives of the Artists
On view through August 11, 2019
Boca Raton Museum of Art
Boca Raton, Florida
www.bocamuseum.org
The title of John Ransom Phillips exhibition is borrowed from Giorgio Vasari’s 16th-century book about the artists of his time. Ransom Phillips’ recent watercolors are not art-historical; rather they are psychological and symbolic representations of artists of interest to him. Combining abstraction, figuration, and his own poetic language written beneath each image, he distills what he considers the essence of the particular artist’s work. These vividly colorful watercolors are fanciful, lyrical, and often humorous. Curated by Kathy Goncharov.
Image credits:
John Ransom Phillips, In art as in life, true balance evolves slowly, Mondrian, 2018, Watercolor. Courtesy of the artist.
