Phil Padwe
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I was born in Texas and raised in New York. I received a BA in English with a concentration in Poetry from SUNY Purchase and am currently an MFA candidate at The New York Academy of Art. I am a former student of The Art Students League and completed a yearlong independent study of Old Master drawings at The British Museum in 2015.
There is a duality in me that's reflected in the work: Catholic (by blood) and Jewish (by adoption); Texan (by birth) and New Yorker (since birth). I received my Irish citizenship in 2019 but am thoroughly American. I mine highbrow and lowbrow aesthetics equally and earnestly. I realize the language of art exists to give utterance to ideas and responses which verbiage often obscures; to make manifest our inner explorations, and to leave as testament for the sake of posterity.
My recent drawings and paintings are a self-portraiture-based investigation of meaningfulness, inconsequentiality, and memory. I enjoy the marriage of apparent opposites and the challenge of reconciling mutually exclusive ideas and styles. I often use humor as the long lens through which to view, and ultimately accept, an obsessive desire to remain in a constant state of inquiry.
HONORS AND AWARDS:
2021 Academy Scholar, New York Academy of Art
Gally Mayer Patrons Scholar Award, New York Academy of Art
Trustee Scholarship, New York Academy of Art
2020 Academy Scholar, New York Academy of Art
EXHIBITIONS:
2021 Treading Lightly, New York Academy of Art, New York, New York
MFA Thesis Exhibition, New York Academy of Art, New York, New York
Tribeca Ball, New York Academy of Art
2020 Deck The Walls, New York Academy of Art, Online
Paralells, New York Academy of Art, New York, New York
Tribeca Ball, New York Academy of Art, Online
Take Home A Nude, New York Academy of Art
Spaces, New York Academy of Art
2019 Deck The Walls, New York Academy of Art, New York, New York
Fluidity, Phyllis Harriman Mason Gallery, New York, NY
2018 Watercolors, Phyllis Harriman Mason Gallery, New York, NY
Anatomical Drawing, Phyllis Harriman Mason Gallery, New York, NY
2017 Single Fare 4, Highline Stages, New York, NY
Spring Art Exhibition, Wix Lounge Chelsea, New York, NY
2013 Swipe Magazine Artists, National Arts Club, New York, NY
2010 Swipe!, 25 CPW Gallery, New York, NY
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
• Sotheby's - "New York Academy of Art’s Virtual Tribeca Ball Honors Eric Fischl" April 1, 2021
• Juxtapoz Magazine - "Art in Uncertain Times" April 10, 2020
• WYNC radio, “Guards and Artists” The Leonard Lopate Show March 25, 2010.
• NPR Morning Edition, Margot Adler, ”Museum Guards Swipe The Spotlight” March 22, 2010
• New York Times, "Hoping to Graduate From Guards to Gauguins" March 5, 2010
EDUCATION:
2021 New York Academy of Art
Masters of Fine Art, Drawing (expected)
1999 SUNY Purchase
Bachelor's Degree, English