I have recently discovered Richard Phillips, a painter born in 1962 in Massachussets.
No doubt this Portrait of God (after Richard Bernstein), 1998, is a powerful one.
As is this Artist (below), oil on canvas, 2001:
And Sissel, oil on linen, 2002:
Some more images:
Money
Bukkake
"Richard Phillips is the David Bowie of painters, changing his painterly persona from show to show with frightening ease. He first rose to fame in the late '80s doing slick upholstered paintings made of colored leather and rubber stretched on supports; they were ironic and funny, and spoke of doubts about there being an acceptable next move for painters at that time. Then, after a few years of seclusion, Phillips reinvented himself with a series of crude, expressionist paintings of country living, nasty sex and people barfing from the sides of sailboats. Another reinvention landed him in the Whitney Biennial with giant Photo-Realist paintings of gorgeous women's faces that looked as if they had been derived from makeup ads. " by Bill Arning
Most images here were taken from the Friedrich Petzel Gallery.
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