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| Birgitte Philippides |
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| 关于此艺术家 |
My paintings are my diaries—they take you on a journey of my life. Through painting, I have found a way to communicate that which would have otherwise been impossible for me to express.
My work is cathartic—it documents my experience of many highs and many lows—from a glorious visit to Cuba and suffering through an eating disorder, to the impact of losing my father and working in the fashion business.
I am interested in painting the truth and the truth is often the ugly side of life. Although I am quite fascinated by beauty, I find that beauty is rarely honest.
I work in an intentionally imperfect and raw manner—mediums such as oil stick, oil paint (the older and crustier the better), nail polish and pencil—and I am inspired by the beautiful truth that comes from painting in a childlike manner. I then like to incorporate everyday household objects such as brillo-pads, nails, glass, fur and Band-Aids into my pieces. I work with objects that normally don't receive any attention for their beauty.
Painting on discarded objects and furniture that I find on the street fascinates me. Why were these objects not wanted? Can I possibly find a new purpose for them? I transform other people's refuse (canvases, furniture, mirrors, etc.) into my own new canvases. Other times I will stretch a canvas "freestyle" using stakes that I have found in the woods. It is important to me that both my canvases and my frames have character and a unique patina. I consider both the canvases and the frames to be an integral part of my work.
My titles are essential to my creativity and ground me with a very specific purpose in each piece. I paint from the title. I paint about the title. The title is always the first thing I concentrate on when I begin to work and it is through the title that I find the strength to paint the image.
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She
2003 Nail polish on steno paper 16.5 x 21.6 cm |
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Mark
2005 Oil and oil stick on canvas 81.3 x 167.6 cm |
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Justin
2005 Acrylic on bed linen stretched on a window guard 59.7 x 110.5 cm |
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He Fucked Her Brains Out
2004 Nail polish and mixed media on paper 45.7 x 59.7 cm |
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She Throws Up A Lot
1992 Oil and mixed media on canvas 76.2 x 91.4 cm |
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She Is A Sexy Girl
1998 Oil and pencil on canvas 50.8 x 61 cm |
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P. Diddy (Sean Combs)
2002 Oil and mixed media on canvas 76.2 x 106.7 cm |
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| 教育程度与个人自传 |
Birgitte V. Philippides was born on January 8, 1968 in Westchester County, New York to a Danish mother and a Greek-Peruvian father. As a young girl, she was constantly taken to museums and art gallery shows by her mother, also a painter. She was exposed to some of the great museums of the world in London, Paris, Tokyo, Germany, Italy, Greece, Brazil, etc. and of course New York City. Growing up surrounded by art, by an early age, Birgitte knew that art would play a big part in her life.
In 1985, Birgitte left home to study Film and Television at Boston University and took summer courses in French and Art History in Paris at the Sorbonne and the American College in Paris. She eventually graduated from the State University of New York at Purchase with a degree in French and a minor in Spanish.
Shortly after, Birgitte started painting by chance, in the summer of 1992. Her return home to her parents' house had made Birgitte miserable. In an attempt to cheer her up, her mother, Kirsten, placed a brush in Birgitte's hand one Saturday afternoon and told her to try to paint her mother's portrait. Birgitte at first resisted but eventually started to paint a child-like, abstract nude of a distraught female from both the front and the back. She painted the words above the figure, "She's So Glamorous."
The experience stuck, and soon after, she began to embellish her paintings with words and titles and subsequently came up with a distinct style of her own. The act of communicating what she felt inside and putting it on canvas was immediately a powerful experience for Birgitte, like a new language. She was able to express how she truly felt about many different things that she never had the courage to verbalize. Her early pieces, with titles like "She's Starving," "She's A Good Girl," "She Throws Up A Lot" and "She Eats Too Much" reflected her newfound empowerment, and were instrumental in helping her overcome a nine-year battle with bulimia.
While the sense of liberation that Birgitte found in painting was thrilling, to say the least, not everyone was so happy. Although her parents were the first to encourage Birgitte with her work (and supported her by buying supplies), her paintings caused quite a lot of pain within the family. Her mother was conflicted, simultaneously thrilled that her daughter was painting but horrified, tearful and embarrassed after seeing each piece that she finished. Her father was amused, but silent, and her brother was clearly mortified.
Over the course of two months Birgitte painted a total of six pieces and then gave in to familial pressure. She hid her paintings in her childhood bedroom closet for six years and periodically rescued a few of them from her mother's garbage bin. Her painting had become too painful for everyone involved, it seemed.The following fall, Birgitte moved back to New York and pursued a career as a make-up artist.
In May of 1998, Birgitte met a fellow artist while on a trip to California. He insisted she begin painting again, telling her, "It's
obviously in your blood." Following his advice, by the end of the summer of 1998, Birgitte had completed several more works. This time courage won out over pain, and Birgitte felt strong enough to pursue her work as a painter despite outside pressure.
For the next seven years Birgitte would document on canvas the many highs and lows of her life living in New York City. Several experiences from this period profoundly affected her art. Foremost among these was losing her father to cancer in 2002. This experience is depicted in many heart-wrenching pieces like "Her Daddy's Got Cancer," "Her Daddy's Dead," and "She Misses Her Daddy."
About seven months after her father passed, Birgitte fell in love with a man who profoundly changed her life. The relationship, simultaneously tumultuous and healing, was documented in a series of works on paper in nail-polish. These works originally began as simple prototypes for upcoming paintings but soon took on a life of their own and became complete pieces in themselves. Some of the titles from her nail polish series include "He Set Her Free," "She's Very Angry At Him," "He Fucked Her Brains Out," and "She's Healed."
Riding on the prodigious output that this relationship inspired, Birgitte has continued exploring themes of love, sex, celebrity, body image and relationship through her work.
Pablo Van Dijk
Kunst Editions, New York
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