Artist: Phillip Carpenter

Medium: Etching

Size: 14" x 11"

Artist Bio:

PHILIP CARPENTER has made art and exhibited in Atlanta since 1978 while teaching painting at Chastain Arts Center. He received a Southern Arts Federation/National Endowment for the Arts grant in1989 and was a Hambidge Fellow in 2001. Notable exhibitions include: The 1994 Atlanta Biennial at Nexus Contemporary Art Center; "Revival of the Figure" at City Gallery East in 1995; "Personal Circumstances" at Spruill Gallery in 2000; "Transitions" at MOCA GA in 2002; "Work and Play" at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in 2005; "Primary Color" at Marcia Wood Gallery in 2005; "Manipulating the Commonplace" at Swan Coach House Gallery in 2007; 17th Color Pencil Society of America Exhibition in 2009 and 2015; "Play" at Spruill in 2009; "The Painted Photograph" at Southwest Arts Center; "40 over 40" at EBD4 in 2017. His work was exhibited in "Georgia Artists choose Georgia Artists" at MOCA GA and "Drawing Inside the Perimeter" at the High Museum of Art and most recently in UNCA's "Drawing Discourse". His work is in private and public collections including the High Museum, MOCA GA, The Lagrange Museum, The Lamar Dodd Art Center at Lagrange College and Hartsfield Jackson International Airport. His work was included in the 2004 edition of "New American Paintings".