Thursday, November 18, 2021, 6 - 7 p.m.
Led by Scott Stulen, Director of Philbrook Museum
All are welcome or live on instagram via @joeldanielphillips
Each artist takes a distinct approach to engage with the American landscape. Darwent’s work in the exhibition includes photo-based wall works and sculptures that obscure and reframe shopping centers, strip malls and parking lots - spaces that became overnight ghost towns during the COVID pandemic. For his contribution, Phillips presents monochromatic drawings, paintings and stop motion video work from his ongoing series Killing the Negative, which explores rejected photographic negatives from the depression-era FSA archives that have been dramatically hole-punched to prevent any professional reproduction. The links between these depression-era landscapes, with their austere and ramshackle buildings and determined if desperate tenants, and the desolate economic conditions of COVID-riddled business closures are easy to draw. Peripheral presents these parallel, conditional landscapes through the lens of Darwent and Phillips’ very distinct creative practices.
