CHARLOTTE JACKSON FINE ART PRESENTS:

Phil Sims

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Phil Sims' signature brushstroke is delicate and subtle; the inclusion of clay in his pigments gives his paintings a soft matte texture that lets the viewer experience the full intensity of a beautiful color. A member of the Radical Painting Group, he exhibits in private and public venues all over Europe and the United States. His work forms an important part of the Panza di Biumo Collection
Born in Richmond, California 1940
Lives in New York

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2001 Red Spectrum Paintings, Kunstverein Grafschaft Bentheim, Neuenhaus, 
Germany
Paintings, Galerie Krohn, Badenweiler, Germany
Paintings, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA
2000 Paintings, Galerie Rupert Walser, Munich, Germany
Paintings, Stark Gallery, New York, NY
1999 Paintings, Charlotte Jackson Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM 
1998 Paintings, Stark Gallery, New York, NY
1997 Paintings, Galeries Rupert Walser, Munich, Germany
1996 Paintings, Galerij S65, Aalst
Marienbad Paintings, Stadtische Ausstellungshalle Marienbad, Freiburg
1995 Stable Paintings, Crosby Street, New York
Paintings, ARS NOVA Gallerie, Goteborg
Paintings, Galerie Dr. Luise Krohn, Badenweiler
1994 Recent Paintings, Stark Gallery, New York
1993 Umbrian Paintings, Galerie Rupert Walser, Munchen
Painting: Into Blue, Artothek, Koln
Umbrian Paintings, Quaderni Perugini di Musica Contemporanea, Pieve Caina
1992 Paintings and Drawings, Galerie Dr. Luise Krohn, Badenweiler
Two Black Paintings, Galerie Kunstraum Kassel, Kassel
1991 Paintings, Galerie Conrads, Neuss
Malerei Pur, Raume von Prima Kunst, Kiel
Paintings, Galerie Rupert Walser, Munchen
1990 April, Julian Pretto Gallery, New York
October, Julian Pretto Gallery, New York
1988 Now Color, Genovese Gallery, Boston
1986 Die Gegenwart der Farbe, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Bielefeld
Drawings, Kingsborough College Art Gallery, City University of 
New York
1986 New Paintings, Malmo Konsthall, Malmo
Paintings, 1979-1985, Queens Museum, NY
1984 Oscarsson-Hood Gallery, New York
Galerie Nemo, Eckernforde
Galerie Rupert Walser/ Druckwerk, Munchen
1983 Oscarsson-Hood Gallery, New York
Bluxome Gallery, San Francisco
Galerie Rupert Walser/ Druckwerk, Munchen
1982 Raum fur Malerei, Koln
Galerie Nordenhake, Malmo
1980 Shirley Cerf Gallery, San Franciso
1979 Casat Gallery, La Jolla
1977 Casat Gallery, La Jolla
1975 Wenger-Casat Gallery, La Jolla

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2000 Bonn Paintings, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany
Grau ist nicht Grau, Galerie Gisele Linder, Basel, Switzerland
More American Artists, Ausstellungsraum Harry Sellweger, Basel, Switzerland
Die Farbe hat mich, Karl Ernst Osthaus-Museum, Hagen, Germany
Painting, Esso Gallery, New York, New York
1999 The Tao of Painting: Principles of Monochrome, McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas, TX
Yellow: The First Color, Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA
Early Radical Painters, Charlotte Jackson Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM
Color-Based Painting: High Modernism, Patricia Sweetow Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Color-Based Painting: The Root of the Actual, Jan Maiden Fine Art, Columbus, Ohio
1998 The Panza di Biumo Collection, Artists of the Eighties and Nineties,
Gubbio/The Museum of the Ducal Palace, Gubbio, Italy (Five
paintings created for a specific room. Paintings on view through2003.)
Charlotte Jackson Fine Arts, Santa Fe, NM
Galerie Gisele Linder , Basel, Switzerland 
Color Painting, Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, MA
1997 Collection Panza di Biumo, 1980-1990, Llonear, Palma de Mallorca,  Spain
Galerie Gisele Linder, Basel Switzerland 
1996 N'oublions Pas le Blanc, Galerie Gisele Linder, Basel Switzerland
Pittura Contemporanea in Galleria, Galleria Nazionale dell'Umbria,  Perugina, Italy
La Collezione Panza Di Biumo-artisti degli anni '80 e '90, Museo d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Roverto, Trento, Italy
1995 Color: Sign, System, Sensibility, Stark Gallery, New York
1994 Esposizione Scelsi, Palazzo dei Priori, quaderni Perugini di Musica  Contemporanea, Perugia
1988 La Couleur Seule, l'Experience du Monochrome, Musee D'Art  Contemporian, Lyon
1987 Rigor, John Good Gallery, New York
10 Jahre Kunst, Galerie Rupert Walser, Munchen
1984 Radical Painting, Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts
New Abstraction, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee
New Abstraction, Sidney Janis Gallery, New York
Color Painting: Three New York Painters, Galerie Rupert Walser/ Druckwerk, Munchen
Von der Ungleichheit des Ahnlichen in der Kunst Stadtische Galerie, Ludenscheid
Stadtische Museum, Gelsenkirchen
Kunstverein Unna
Color: Four Painters, Oscarsson-Hood Gallery, New York and GalerieNordenhake, Malmo
1981 Painting: Seven New York Painters, Sarah Lawrence College Gallery, Bronxville
1980 Color Painting, Galerie Enstrom, Stockholm and Shirley Cerf Gallery,  San Francisco
1979 Fundamental Color, Galerie Nordenhake, Malmo

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

San Francisco Chronicle March 29, 2001, "Phil Sims at Gross," David Bonetti
Santa Fe New Mexican October 1, 1999, "New Mexico Light Goes Beyond Surface", Joe Quattro
Albuquerque Journal North July 4, 1999, "Artist's Goal is to Create 'Color Experience'," Craig Sullivan
Albuquerque Journal North July 2, 1999, "Sims Works Offer One-on-One Experience with Color," Craig Sullivan
San Francisco Examiner May 7, 1999, "Abstraction's Remarkable Return, David Bonetti
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung April 20, 1999, "Im Studiolo herrscht jetzt die Monochromie", Georg Imdahl
The New York Times April 24, 1998, "Phil Sims," Ken Johnson
Art In America May 1996 "Phil Sims at the Crosby Street Project," Lilly Wei
The New York Times July 21, 1995, "Color: Sign, System, Sensibility," Pepe Karmal
Quaderni Perugini di Musica Contemporane, "Nuove Prospettive per L' Osservazione Tra Immagine e Musica," Perugia, Italia
Cataloguo 1994, Prof. Michael Bockemuhl Kolner Stadt-Anzeiger
8 September, 1993, "Farbe als Lebenselixier," Marianne Stockebrand Kunstforum International
Bd. 118, 1992, Phil Sims "Two Black Paintings," Michael Hubl
Malerei Pur Gesellschaft fur akustische Levenshilfe, Kiel, Deutschland, Katalog1991,  Jurgen Paatz
La Couleur Seule L' Experience du Monochrome, Musee St. Pierre, Lyon, France, Catalogue 1988, Thierry Raspail
Phil Sims, Malmo Konsthall, Malmo, Sweden, Catalogue 1986, Stephen Westfall
Die Gegenwart der Farbe, Kunstalle Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Deutschland, Katalog 1986, Erich Franz
Phil Sims, Galerie Nemo, Eckernforde, Deutschland, Katalog 1984, Erich Franz
Radical Painting, Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts, Catalogue 1984, Lilly Wei
Flash Art , February 1982, "Color: Four Painters," Michele Meyers
Arts, March 1982, "Monochrome Met", Ann Schoenfeld
Color: Four Painters, Oscarsson Hood Gallery, New York, Galeria Nordenhake, Malmo, Sweden, Catalogue 1982, Jesse Murphy
Art in America, April 1981, "Getting on with Painting," Marcia Hafif
Flash Art, No. 92-93, October-November 1979, "Monochrome in New York"

SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Karl Ernst Osthaus-Museum, Hagen, Germany
Collection Panza di Biumo, Varese, Italia
Collection of Julian Pretto, Wadsworth Atheneum
Museum, Hartford, Connecticut, USA
Kiel Kunsthalle, Kiel, Germany
Musee d'Art Contemporain, Lyon, France
Malmo Konsthall, Malmo, Sweden
Scripps Institute, La Jolla, California, USA
University of Maine, Orono, Maine, USA
Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts, USA

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