Lane Relyea

From the back cover:"The Studio Reader pulls back the curtain to reveal the activities behind artistic production. What does it mean to be in the studio? What is the space of the studio in the artist's practice? How do studios help artists envision their agency and, beyond that, their entire lives? This forward-thinking anthology brings together artists, curators, each of whom locates the studio both spatially and conceptually at the center of an art world that increasingly crosses institutions, markets, and disciplines."

This exhibition of John Phillips paintings and drawings is the third installment in an ongoing series that surveys a local artist's work over an extended period. This particular exhibit features selections of Phillips' oeuvre from 1979 to the present (2004). Phillips has, from the very beginning as a practicing artist, maintained a commitment to abstraction. -abstract taken from Forward