Philip Swan

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(Untitled 2013 B)
(Untitled 2013 B)
The interlocking geometry I use in my paintings is usually hard- edged and flat and almost always biomorphic, interchanging the subjective and objective and suggesting a narrative relationship between them.

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Untitled (2013 E)
I always begin with a preparatory drawing, although it rarely survives intact by the time the painting is finished: it is the starting point of the conversation, making way for intuition, which favors pure painting over a specific conceptual practice or theory.

I work slowly, sometimes spending months on an individual painting. Over the passage of time, I distill the flotsam of the world around me into a sense of order expressed both through color and composition in an individual work.
Untitled (2012 B)
Untitled (2012 B)

Philip Swan
New York, NY
New York, NY
United States
New York
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