Patrick Phipps is an artist living in Houston, Texas.
His studio travels with him in a small tote bag and he regularly draws at coffeeshops. He prefers to work on paper for the immediacy and pleasure in making marks. His subject matter ranges from high abstract ideas to low pop cultural references. He enjoys the tension between these two worlds and tries to incorporate elements of both in his work.
His work is primarily concerned with the human condition, a vague term that can be further elucidated with the idea of a lack of comfortability with the body and its inherent awkwardness. Phipps hopes to capture the feeling of being dumb or silly or wrong in his work. It is this feeling that ties humanity together.
His studio travels with him in a small tote bag and he regularly draws at coffeeshops. He prefers to work on paper for the immediacy and pleasure in making marks. His subject matter ranges from high abstract ideas to low pop cultural references. He enjoys the tension between these two worlds and tries to incorporate elements of both in his work.
His work is primarily concerned with the human condition, a vague term that can be further elucidated with the idea of a lack of comfortability with the body and its inherent awkwardness. Phipps hopes to capture the feeling of being dumb or silly or wrong in his work. It is this feeling that ties humanity together.
