New Work by Richard Phillips for His Third Exhibition at White Cube Hoxton Square

LONDON.- White Cube Hoxton Square presents ‘Most Wanted’, an exhibition of new work by Richard Phillips(on view until Mar 5 2011), his third with the gallery. Phillips’ strikingly distinctive paintings are drawn from found imagery, which he uses to address the marketability of our wishes, identity, politics, sexuality and mortality. He translates these images into drawings before executing large-scale oil paintings through a traditional process. He thus examines the iconic nature of pictures, which the media and art world use daily – each according to its own agenda. For ‘Most Wanted’, Richard Phillips selected ten of America’s most instantly recognisable celebrities from the realms of television, cinema and music to create distilled portraits of young, powerful stars exhibiting their rehearsed, red-carpet expressions. Phillips’ two-metre high canvases of Chace Crawford, Kristen Stewart,

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