Frankie Phillips
Welcome to our tenth episode of Y2K GROUP CHAT featuring artist Frankie Phillips. We recorded this episode in early March 2021. We speak with Frankie about his work featuring coat hangers and t-shirts collaged to make new visionary paintings, ideas of fashion, barriers, symbolism, the materiality of his work, and diaries. \nFrankie Phillips is an emerging artist living and working in Ridgewood, Queens. He received a BFA from RISD in Providence, RI. This podcast episode was made on the occasion of Frankie\u2019s third solo exhibition with Y2K group. \nFollow us on TikTok, Instagram, and Audius: @y2kgroup\nSubscribe to our YouTube channel for more content about contemporary art.\nVisit our Twitch, Theta.tv, and YouTube for live streams, and ask us a question about art on Telegram or on Twitter @y2kgroupnyc\nAudio timestamps below:\n0:00 - Intro\n0:20 - Hi\u2013we are live \n1:53 - Coat hanger origins \n3:28 - Why move away from the standard canvas size\n4:29 - Butterflies + ears\n6:34 - Shirts + hangers\n10:47 - Why did you start using clothes in your work?\n12:32 - What do you think about fashion and how you dress yourself?\n14:45 - Are you using clothes for texture or as another material?\n17:41 - Wires and barriers in the paintings\n21:30 - Scars and symbolism\n23:16 - Bleached/washed out palette in the work and the figures\n27:01 - Cosmic beings\n29:05 - \u201cAnother Eyelash\u201d sculptural work\n30:31 - \u201cExistential Eyelash\u201d painting\n35:47 - Self-portraiture/reflection\n37:22 - Figure in \u201cCowlick Diary\u201d \n42:50 - Diary book in painting\n46:13 - Outro