About the Artist: Justin Phillips’ work explores the meanings and nuances embedded in his formalist mixed-media pieces, which incorporate elements of drawing, painting, and collage. Phillips employs a range of creative methodologies, including capturing chance, intuitive mark-making, conjuring and recording rhythms, erasure, as well as personal rules and systems. Phillips’ work ranges from drawings created in one sitting to deeply layered works where he explores sustained and deep efforts that form complex and contemplative works. Phillips’ work is inspired by the energy and dynamics of daily life and the inner workings of the world in which we live. He is fascinated with the connection between visual language and the human experience, and he often describes his works as meditations or physical embodiments of meditation rituals or routines. His practice is a never-ending survey of the connection between oneself and their surroundings. Phillips works and lives in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, in the United States, where he is the Associate Dean of Academic Affairs at Pennsylvania College of Art and Design.