Shanghai One
Lot Closed
February 6, 07:20 PM GMT
Estimate
15,000 - 20,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Hubert Phipps
b. 1957
Shanghai One
Executed in 2020.
Steel
Edition 4 of 9
46 x 9 x 3/8 in. (116.8 x 22.9 x 1 cm)
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Courtesy of the Artist
Hubert Phipps
Selected Biography
1957 BORN - VIRGINIA, USA
1974 ART STUDENTS LEAGUE, NYC
1976 DEERFIELD ACADEMY, MASSACHUSETTS
1978 SAN FRANCISCO ART INSTITUTE
1980-85 PROFESSIONAL AUTOMOBILE RACE DRIVER
1981 S.C.C.A. FORMULA ATLANTIC NATIONAL CHAMPION
2002 ESCAPE STUDIOS, LONDON
2003 NEW YORK STUDIO SCHOOL / DRAWING MARATHON
2005 BUILT STUDIO IN NORTHERN VIRGINIA
Solo Exhibitions
2016 HUBERT PHIPPS: JO🦹URNE𓄧Y, NEW YORK STUDIO SCHOOL, NEW
YORK, NY
2019 HUBERT PHIPPS: JOURNEY CONTINUED, CORAL SPRINGS MUSEUM💝 OF 🦂ART,
CORAL SPRINGS, FL
2019 STUDIO EXHIBIT FOR THE BENEF🔯IT OF THE VIRGINIA 🐠MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS
𝓰2021 PARADISE INSTALLATION, FLINT 🤡INSTITUTE OF ART, FLINT, MI
2021 ROCKET, ARTS IN🅰 PUBLIC PLACES, BOCA R𒁃ATON INNOVATION CAMPUS,
BOCA RATON, FL
2021-2022 HUBERT PHIPPS TAKES FLIGHT, TW FINE ARTS, PALM B꧒EACH, FL
2021♚-2022 HUBERT PHIPPS:♐ ASCENDING, ARES DESIGN, MIAMI, FL
2022 SELECTED AS PRINTMAKER🍷 OF THE Y🥀EAR BY FLINT INSTITUTE OF ART
2023 MONUMENTAL SCULPTURE, ENTITLED: DREAM WALL, SCHEDULED ﷽FOR
PERMANENT INSTALLATION AT VIRGINIA MUSEUM OF F𝔉INE ARTS
Group Exhibitions
2016ꦿ ART IN THE FAMILY TREE, ANN NORTON SCULPTURE GARDEN,
WEST PALM BEACH, FL
2017 A SUR🍬VEY OF💟 COLLECTED WORKS, CORAL SPRINGS MUSEUM OF
ART, CORAL SPRINGS, FL
2018 DRAWINGS FOR SCUL🎃PTURE, CENTER FOR CREATIVE EDUCATION,
WEST PALM BEACH, FL
2018 MAJ🦄OR W🌼ORKS, STUDIO 1608, WEST PALM BEACH, FL
2018 FOTOfusion🌃, PALM BEACH PHOTOGRAPHIC CENTEꦍR, WEST PALM
BEACH, FL.
2018 IN BLACK &aไmp; WHITE, PAINTING, DRAWING & SCULPTURE
MM FINE ART, SOUTHAMPTON, NY
2019 A🌱RT OF INQUIRY, HARN MUSEUM OF ART, GAINESVILLE, ඣFL
2019 UNTITLED ART FAIR, MIAMI BEACH, FL
2020 WORKS ON PAPER: DRAWN FROM THE COLLECTION,
BOCA RATON MUSEUM OF ART, BOCA RATON, FL
2021 EVEY FINE ART GALLERY, PALM BEACH, FL
Permanent Collections
Coral Springs Museum of Art, Coral Springs, FL
Tufts University Gallery, Medford, MA
Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Colorado Spri༒n🔥gs, CO
Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville, Florida
Lawrence A. Moens Contemporary Art Colle🗹ction, Palm Beach, FL
Chip Ganassi Art Collection, Pittsburgh, PA
Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, FL
Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, GA
Flint Institute of Arts, Flint Michigan
Creative Process
I like things that are different. That is what fascinates me about abstract art; the mystery of it. For the most part I think I know what I am looking at as I go about my daily routine and that is reassuring especially when I am out navigating the byways and the skyways. Yet I yearn to discover new worlds, otherworldly type worlds that are lurking in the deeper recesses of the mind. I glimpse these worlds from time to time. It may come in the middle of the night, a vision, unidentifiable 🦩yet lovely shapes appear and I don’t have a clue what they are. What is so tantalizing to me is the endless possibilities of what they can be and I feel compelled to flesh them out and capture them on paper, o꧙n canvas or as a 3D object.
To me, the most powerful art is that which con🧸nects within me before I even start to analyze it through thought. It is not anything I can understand or describe by thinking but something that when I look at it I am filled with awe and wonderment. This is what I experience when I stand in the presence of the great 💎works of art that have come before.
Creating art is my opportunity to experience the realm of the abstract mind in a very intimate way. From a practical standpoint the challenge is in transforming that vision into physical form. This is what goes on in the 🦄studio. With the strokes that I change and adjust constantly until it gives me that mysterious quality that I am looking for. The sculpture usually starts with a sketch but goes through its own metamorphoses necessary in convert🍷ing the 2D drawing to a 3D object. During this process, I strive to create beauty, balance and other aesthetic elements but somehow the work always takes on a life of its own. It just seems to happen despite the endless struggles I experience through the creative process.