David Phillips (sculptor)

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David L. Phillips, (born January 8,1944, in Flint, Michigan) is an American sculptor and site-specific artist best known for his public artwork including large bronze sculptures, his integrated installations, and works combining natural stone with bronze.

A recurring theme in Phillips’ work is the intersection of geometric shapes moving through nature. Many of his outdoor designs have evolved from earlier work with small and medium size sculptural objects. His installations fuse the traditional materials of sculpture with plants, water, light, and paving. Cut stone, some with parts that have been replaced with cast bronze, suggest a bridge between the man-made and natural worlds.

Phillips earned a BFA in 1967 at Cranbrook Academy of Art where he majored in painting and minored in sculpture.  He continued his studies at Cranbrook, receiving his MFA in 1969,^[1] where he studied bronze and iron casting under Julius Schmidt and ceramics with Richard DeVore.  

In 1968 Phillips received a Charles Stewart Mott Foundation grant to study and travel in Europe. In 1985, sponsored by the United States Information Agency (USIA), Phillips traveled to Japan to lecture in Kyoto and Nagoya. Exhibitions of his work in Nagoya and Tokyo followed.^[2] Other awards include a MacDowell (artists' residency and workshop) in 1978, a Kohler Arts/Industry residency in 1990, and a Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant in 1999.^[3] Phillips obtained the Award from Boston Landmarks Commission for the Dr. Melvin Lederman Vietnam War Memorial.^[4]

He also obtained an award from the National Parks to build the Spectacle Island Shelter located in the Boston Harbor Islands. This work is part of the Collections of the Boston Art Commission.^[5]

The Edward Ingersoll Browne Fund awarded David Phillips a commission for a public sculpture in the Angell Memorial Park in downtown Boston.^[6]

Phillips also won along with landscape architect Craig Halvorson, an award from the Cambridge Art Council's Public Art Program in 1997 to design a sculpture and park for Quincy Square.^[7]

*“Frog Pond Playground”^[8] at Boston Common in Boston

*“Garden of Absence” in Kōfu, Japan^[9]

*“Fountain” at City Square Park in Charlestown, Massachusetts

*“Scrolls” at New England Conservatory of Music in Boston^[10]

*“Megaliths”at Porter station^[11] in Cambridge, MA

*Bread” at Riverside Press Park^[12] in Cambridge, MA

*“Coffin” at Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA

*“Seal Harbor Standing Stones” at David Rockefeller, Jr. Collection

*“Cellular Yolk” at Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, MA

*“Trilith” at the Art Complex Museum in Duxbury, MA

*"The Seasons Table" at Utah Schools for the Deaf and the Blind, Utah State Public Art Collection, UT^[13]

*"​Garden of Symbols" at ​Southern Utah University Librar​y, Utah State Public Art Collection, UT^[14]

*“Common Ground” at University of Utah Talmage (Biology) Building, Utah State Public Art Collection, UT^[15]

*“Levitated Stone” at Cambridge, MA^[16]  

*"Chords" at Eastport Park, Boston, MA^[17]    

*"Beach Fragments" at Lechmere Canal,^[18] East Cambridge, MA 

*"Dancing with the Spheres", at the Animal Rescue League of Boston, MA ^[19]

*https://www.phillipssculpture.com