Sunday December 4, 2pm ET
Artist Talk: Rachel Phillips
In conversation with Carol Saft
In Person & Live-streamed (on this page)
Live-stream starts at 2pm ET
View the works in the exhibition HERE
Microscope is very pleased to present an artist talk with Rachel Phillips in connection with her current solo exhibition at the gallery “Scrambled,” which closes on Saturday December 3rd. She will be joined in conversation by artist Carol Saft to discuss her new paintings, drawings and clay sculptures on view within the context of her wider art practice.
Rachel Phillips and Carol Saft have known each other for over twenty years. They first met at the Vermont Studio Center in 1996. Years later, they met again in NYC, both pursuing their art. At the time, Phillips was also a part of the artist-run gallery “The Parlour Bushwick,” which in 2018 exhibited three videos by Carol Saft about her brother Todd.
The event, which takes place both in person & online, will be live streamed on this page on Sunday December 4th at 2pm.
More info about Rachel Phillips’ exhibition “Scrambled” can be found HERE.
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Rachel Phillips (b. Philadelphia, PA) lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. Her work has been exhibited in the US and internationally including at Cindy Rucker Gallery, Walter Wickiser Gallery, Brian Morris Gallery, Bruce High Quality Foundation, Galerie Protégé, Nurture Art, Chashama, and O’Flaherty’s in New York as well as at the Gran Sasso Science Institute in L’Aquila, Italy, and Salon Space, Berlin, Germany, among many others. Phillips’ work has been featured in Artnet, ArtMaze, Bedford & Bowery, Hyperallergic, Two Coats of Paint, and Talking Pictures Blog, among others. She was recently interviewed in “Decorated Youth Magazine.” Recent residencies include “The Stephen Pace Residency for a Mid-Career Artist” at Provincetown MA in 2020 (realized in January/February of 2022) and the Salem Art Works Residency Fellowship, Salem, NY in 2019. She was one of three artists and curators of the critically recognized Bushwick gallery The Parlour (2011- 2017). Rachel Phillips lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
Carol Saft works in various mediums: film, sculpture, photography, and paintings. Whatever medium, Saft approaches her subjects with a balance of conceptual objectivity and an intimate sensitivity to the subject. “Saft” was in the New Forms Program at Pratt Institute, and completed her MFA at SUNY Purchase. During the COVID isolation in 2021, Saft returned to painting, and currently has a solo show of paintings on exhibit through December 22nd at CANADA in Tribeca, NYC.
