Cosmic Connection, 1971
James Phillipsexpand_more
Acrylic on canvasexpand_more
The John R. Van Derlip Trust Fund, the Friends of Bruce Dayton Art Acquisition Fund, the Mary Ingebrand-Pohlad Endowment for Twentieth Century Paintings, and the James Ford Bell Endowment for Art Acquisitionexpand_more 2022.1.1a-e
On View in Gallery 375expand_more
James Phillips’s "Cosmic Connection" is a bursting, cacophonous and rhythmic homage to visionary musician, composer, and music theorist John Coltrane. Phillips made the piece at a residency at the Studio Museum in Harlem to be the backdrop to a memorial concert to Coltrane at Town Hall, New York that same year. In imagining an uplifting visual counterpart to Coltrane's music and soul, Phillips hit on light. He said, “Sound is sound. I work with the visual manifestations of sound. The visual component to that would be light.”
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- Cosmic Connection
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- 2022.1.1a-e
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