✧ Winner of the 2022 Southeast Review Art Contest ✧
Selected by Nneka Jones
Philana Oliphant
Phase Out—Delete
graphite on Arches 88
22 x 30 inches
Lost Bird Song
graphite on BFK Rives
22 x 30 inches
Adjust to Reality
graphite on Arches 88
14 x 19 inches
Swallow’s Bone
charcoal on Somerset
19 x 24 inches
Straight Seems Crooked
charcoal on Somerset
22 x 30 inches
Mirage
charcoal on Somerset
22 x 30 inches
The Sound of Breaking
graphite on BFK Rives
22 x 30 inches
Dead Bird List (cropped)
graphite on BFK Rives
42 x 118 inches
PHILANA OLIPHANT is a Texas-based artist whose interdisciplinary work includes drawings, sculpture, prints, and installations. She has exhibited her work nationally for thirty years. Recent exhibitions include The Texas National, Nacogdoches, Texas, AMoA Biennial 600 Justice-Equality-Race-Identity Amarillo Museum of Art, Amarillo Texas, Recording History, Gormley Gallery, Notre Dame of Maryland University, Texas JuriedExhibition, Fort Worth Texas, and a solo exhibition Wingload at KSpace Contemporary in Corpus Christi, Texas. She shares a studio in the woods with her husband James R. Pace, her poet daughter Aza Pace and three adorable rescued dogs.