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Mid-AtlanticApr 2007
Stephen Bennett Phillips
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My paintings imagine futures where repair, joy, and dialogue shape our shared life. Working between landscape and constructed forms, I activate change by depicting regenerative systems; repaired soils, rewilded corridors, new spaces that invite civic action. One piece pursues happiness as communal pleasure: gardens, gatherings, and light as social currency. Another bridges the divide through layered imagery of crossing points; rivers, thresholds, translations, where differences meet and are reworked into common ground. Together, they propose a more perfect union: fragile, negotiated, and creative. The works are invitations to participate, to mend, celebrate, and converse toward a shared, livable future.
Works shared by the artist outside of their featured New American Paintings selections



Apr 2007
Stephen Bennett Phillips
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