KerryPhillips: Art Funding Matters!

Artist Statement: or What makes Kerry tick?

Phillips’s work explores emotion by connecting simple, natural subject matter to our human experience of impressionism. His technical expertise has evolved immensely throughout the years, working with award-winning film directors of photography and learning to combine time, movement, and composition at the right, intuitive moment.

Phillips’s exploration is less about an actual place and more about timeless, captivating visual poetry. The sequence portfolio studies organized symmetry with a static narrative. Photographs are not as much about our relationship to time and space as they are about ratios of time and movement. Phillips takes advantage of coordinated humanity and nature to maintain vertical prescience with minimal tonal range.

Natural meditative exploration into meaning that is entirely impassioned; Mother Nature is not just out there to be bracketed off, captured, and used up. There is an intuitive movement through time – fleeting, and then stopped with mindful intention that it is heightening the viewer’s connection to our environment with Phillip’s concerted effort on "situational observationalism". Compositional elements sit in quiet equilibrium composed of textural layers of light, luminance, and consideration to all intended nuances. Kerry's works of imagery have an experience of purity and instinctive appreciation of power, humor, and transformation – To freeze a transitory moment of life, luminance, and energy- that would never be duplicated.

 kerry circa 1980ish

photo: Stuart Bott. Board: G&S Flex, Tracker trucks, Candy Apple wheels

Helmet: Nada Brain