Lot 4: RICHARD PHILLIPS

Illumination (Esther)
Signed and dated "Richard Phillips 2011" on the overlap.

78 x 79 in. (198.1 x 200.7 cm)

oil on linen

2011

Courtesy of the artist and Gagosian Gallery, New York

It was fascinating to find the outside limit of desire that you see in fashion advertising. It was a way to consider how painting could be used for its manipulative power. The idea was no longer to critique power structures through mimicry but to find the messages in them and let them work on the mind differently. People get confused when they see my shows, but that isn&#8217;t the intention. My intention is to destabilize the act of seeing. — <strong>Richard Phillips

</strong>(Yablonsky, Linda. &#8220;Richard Phillips,&#8221; <em>Interview Magazine</em>. 28 April 2009.)