EXHIBITION RECEPTION & ARTIST TALK
Saturday July 13th
Artist Talk 3-4pm
Reception 4-6pm
Contact GALLERY@WINSTONWACHTER.COM for more information
Winston Wächter Fine Art Seattle is pleased to announce our third solo exhibition with painter Philip Govedare.
His new body of work, Under The Sky, expands Govedare’s excavation of human-altered landscapes, atomizing agricultural fields, quarries, and stormy horizons into imaginary scenes. Distantly removed from the earth, as though viewed from a departing airplane, the slightly abstracted perspectives register as cross-sections of overlapping impressions and practices on the land. Roads and waterways jut into adjacent fields of expansive, dust-swept greens and chalky limestone formations. The angular, morphing components within Govedare’s paintings cohere together as the incalculable sum of the human and natural forces acting upon our earth.
“My paintings are not based on actual images, but rather a composite of places I have seen and experienced over time. They combine aspects of observation, memory, and imagination. My imagery is not preconceived but found through the process of painting. The outcome of my process is always unexpected, and therefore revelatory.” — Philip Govedare
Philip Govedare earned his BFA from San Francisco Art Institute and his MFA from Tyler School of Art/Temple University in Philadelphia, and he taught as a professor of art at the University of Washington from 2007 to 2023. He has exhibited widely in the US and in Europe and his awards include an individual artist fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Award in painting, and a Fellowship in Visual Arts from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. His work is on display in a permanent installation in Schiphol International Airport in Amsterdam. Govedare’s work has crossed disciplines into geography and environmental science, and his collaborations include the American Association of Geographers, the Nature Conservancy, and the UW College of the Environment scientists addressing the issue of climate change and our role as a force of nature in the Anthropocene.
