Joel Daniel Phillips tells personal and social stories through his pencil and truly lead the example of elaborating anything he understands through drawing it. Stories about the depth of human experiences, often carved into the faces of his subjects. His works are featured as a part of the opening of the URBAN NATION Museum in 2017. […]
Joel Daniel Phillips tells personal and social stories through his pencil and truly lead the example of elaborating anything he understands through drawing it. Stories about the depth of human experiences, often carved into the faces of his subjects. His works are featured as a part of the opening of the URBAN NATION Museum in 2017.
American artist Joel Daniel Phillips attempts to grasp what he sees around him through the tip of a pencil and a piece of charcoal. Seeking for moments where our projected senses of self are transparent, he makes deeper, truthful emotions visible, in his realist life-sized portraits of notably disenfranchised segments of the population of San Francisco. Phillips was born in Redmond, Washington, in 1989 and graduated from Westmont College in Santa Barbara, Claifornia. Since 2012 his works have been displayed in galleries around the world.
