Philip Herbison

Philip Herbison
Stowe, Vermont

STATEMENT

Most of the art I create can be seen as both painting and sculpture. Using scrap materials left over from previous art projects I explore new aesthetic possibilities by. The many colors, textures, shapes and substances seem to offer themselves up to me as playthings of a two-year-old child. I don’t set out to express myself with this so much as to discover harmonies in the abstract, something like a jazz musician would do.

I also do a lot of photography and videography. My natural surroundings in the hills of Vermont has become the subject of several series consisting of abstract water formations of all kinds.

BIO

Philip Herbison earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Film Production at San Francisco State University and went on to pursue graduate studies at The London Film School. In 1972, he relocated to Montreal where he worked as a lighting cameraman in the film and television industry. It was then that he developed his interest in studio art. In 1978, he created a series of paintings based on video freeze-frames of passengers that he recorded on a city bus. This became the subject of his first solo exhibition. Soon after, he was accepted into L’Ecole des Beaux Arts à Montréal where he received his MFA degree in 1983.

He continued to work as an artist and has shown his work (painting, assemblage and photography) regularly while, at the same time, freelancing as a cameraman. Then, in 2001,having married a woman from Vermont, he built a house and studio in Stowe, where he has lived and created art on a full time basis. His first solo show there called “Child’s Play” was at the Tagu Gallery in Morrisville. It consisted of paintings and assemblages made out of rags, wood scraps and found objects. Since then, he has shown his work regularly at venues around the state (see resume) and is listed in the Vermont Art Guide Database.

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