Portrait of God (after Richard Bernstein), 1998. oil on linen 101 x 72 in. (256.5 x 182.9 cm)

PROVENANCE Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York
EXHIBITED New York, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, Richard Phillips, October 23 - November 28, 1998 New York, PS 1 Contemporary Art Center, Greater New York, February 2000 Zurich, Kunsthalle Zurich, Richard Phillips, November 4 - December 31, 2000 Hamburg, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, The Contemporary Face: From Pablo Picasso to Alex Katz, September 27, 2001 - January 13, 2002 Avingon, Collection Lambert, Coollustre, April 28 - October 15, 2003 Warth, Switzerland, Kunstmuseum des Kantons Thurgau, Gott Sehen, October 2, 2005 - April 23, 2006
LITERATURE B. G. Gardner, "Die Hand umklammert den Haltegriff", Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, October 19, p. 54 R. Mahoney, "American Gesture", Art Net, December 1998 Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, June 12, No. 133, p. 52 D. Paparoni. "Il non ritorno all’ordine", Tema Celeste, October-December, 1999 V. Pederson , "Richard Phillips", Paper, January, 1999, p. 89 D. Humphry, "New York Fax", Art Issues, January-February 1999, no. 56, pp. 34-35 M. Cohen, "Richard Phillips", Flash Art, March-April 1999, p.103 B. Arning, "Richard Phillips", Art in America, April 1999, pp. 139-140 Kunsthalle Zurich, Richard Phillips Exhibition Catalogue, Zurich, 2000, p. 28 (illustrated) J. P. Breakwood, "Jeunes tigres au P.S. 1", Art Actuel, no. 8, May-June 2000, p. 38-40 P.S. 1 Center for Contemporary Art, Greater New York, exh. cat., New York, 2000, p. 31 J.Roberts, ed.,"If You Could Have Any Five Artworks…", Frieze, November-December, 2001, pp. 65-80 M. O'Rourke, "Six Portraits", The Paris Review, No. 161, Spring 2002, pp. 97-104 Coollustre, Weather Everything Dramatically Different, Collection Lambert, Avignon, 2003, pp. 1, 70-77, 185 (illustrated) D. Diederichsen and R. Phillips, "Out of Time and Place: A Conversation", Parkett, No. 71, 2004, p. 65 S. G. Park, "Mimic in Reality – Richard Phillips", Art Price, August 2005, pp. 84-87 (illustrated) Kunstmuseum des Kantons Thurgau, Gott Sehen, exh. cat, 2005, pp 94-95 JRP/Ringier Kunstverlag, "Richard Phillips Paintings and Drawings", Le Consortium Dijon, Centre d'Art Contemporain Dijon, Zurich, 2006, p. 104
"The perception of whether my male subjects are sexualized depends on one's predisposition. Paintings like Portrait of God, 1998, address male sexuality. My work reflects the proportional over-representation of the female body in art historical and advertising patterns. Even the way in which my paintings have been absorbed into the art media, has privileged the images of women over men, which parallels mainstream media's old bias' of heterosexist transmissions for the safeguarding of property legacy and real-estate control." - Richard Phillips (Interview with Richard Phillips, New Museum, Gagosian Gallery, New York, 2009)