Liz Phillips Portraits

Most of these paintings are from my two years at grad school (2003 - 2005). The project involved taking an iconic painting -- Chuck Close's 1968 self portrait -- and making a series of adaptations from it: colour and paint-application experiments, mirror images, flower additions, finger painting (on the paintings of myself as Chuck Close).

This was a show in Kitchener, Ontario in 2007. These paintings are based on images of men from an online dating site. These are the men I did not choose and did not contact. The goal was to develop some compassion for them and myself (online dating is no picnic) through painting their portraits.

This series helped me learn to paint different surfaces. Conceptually, I was intrigued by the relationship between body and object, and the implied consumption.

This album spans a number of different bodies of work, from 1997 - 2002.