MINNA PHILIPS - RECENT WORKS>>

Minna has been working in the Minimalist aesthetic for a few years now. That a single line can speak of a person's character, or be highly emotive, is an idea that she has entertained recently. Having moved on to abstraction from a very realistic style of painting, it has been an eventful exploration, for her, into the ideas of motion, space, light and color.These paintings are a prelude to the installation works that are in progress. They are strictly about spatial issues within a two dimensional (illusionistic) plane, using colors and shapes.

"The Dance of Diego", deals with color strictly, and the illusions that these paintings might create to deceive the eye from a distance. I have also tried to minimize my palette to the primary colors.

Recent installation works are an exploration into what she choose to call 'systems'. Every movement and every action is considered a system that is connected to another system. Thus the interconnectedness of these systems is explored. At the same time, the individuality of each systems are emphasized, which is to say that each system might look entirely different from one another, but are at the same time, connected. Her recent installation works are an exploration into this idea of interconnectedness and individuality.

Minna has been always inspired by movements even in her early days of artistic career. She tried to do every painting as if it was moving in wind, if it were landscapes, the huts and trees would be moving in wind, or if it were portraits. That was the origin of what she is doing now...trying to capture movement.

Her Master of Fine Arts program in Towson University, Maryland, and Post Baccalaureate certificate course in Maryland Institute College of Arts, has had tremendously influenced her style of painting and exposed her to Zen philosophy and currently a lot of Hindu philosophy and Taoism. The main idea is about movement, not literally but how everything is moving, all the time, how one thing is connected to the next, how things are always in motion and interconnected and at the same time individual. Nonethless her fascination for movement and colors remain the same.