RESUME
DAVID PHILLIPS - Hillside Sculpture Studio
22 Grove Street Sandwich, MA, 02563
Cell: 617.233.6822
Email: dphillipsltd@comcast.net
Web: phillipssculpture.com
Wikipedia: david_phillips_(sculptor)
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EDUCATION
1962-1964
Columbus College of Art and Design
1965-1967
Cranbrook Academy of Art, BFA painting, minor in sculpture
1967-1969
Cranbrook Academy of Art, MFA sculpture, studied bronze casting under Julius Schmidt and ceramics with Richard DeVore
TEACHING
1995-2007
Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, foundry process
1997
Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, welding technique
1995
Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, stone carving
1994
School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston visiting sculptor
1975
Harvard University, teaching assistant for Dimitri Hadzi
AWARDS
2024
"Muse 2024", Cape Cod Museum of Art, Dennis, MA
2023
Cape Cod Art Center, 1st Prize in Sculpture, Barnstable, MA
2017
Boston chapter ASLA merit award - "Celebrate the Coast", Western Avenue, Cambridge MA
2016
Winning design, Dr. Melvin Lederman Vietnam War Memorial, Esplanade, Boston, MA
2008
Spectacle Island, – Boston Harbor, National Parks Service Grant, collaboration with Charles Jones
2007
New England Foundation fot the Arts Design Development Award
2006
Hillside Sculpture Studios chosen as favorite metal fabricator by Architects Newspaper
2006
Friedman Chair, Truro Center for the Arts, MA.
2003
Tadpole Playground, Boston Common, appreciation award plaque from children of Boston
1999
Pollock Krasner Grant
1999
Quincy Sq., Cambridge, MA, Boston Society of Landscape Architects, Award
1998
City Sq., Charlestown, Boston Society of LA Merit Award, with the Halvorson Co.
1993
Copley Society, Juror's Award Sculpture
1990
Kohler Art / Industry Artist Residency, Kohler Wisconsin
1990
Fitchburg Art Museum, MA, winning design for multi use garden with Carol Johnson Associates
1987
Urban Design Award of the MA Horticultural Society for Post Office Square
1986
Governor's Design Awards, Regional Award for Angell Memorial Post Office Square
1985
United States Information Service grant for travel in Japan
1984
Regional Special Mention for Chelsea Center Walk,with C. R. Johnson Associates
1978
MacDowell Colony Residency
1976
Colman Award, grant for research in latex as a sculptural medium
1968
Mott Foundation Travel Grant for study in Italy
COMMISSIONS/INSTALLATIONS
2022
New England Conservatory of Music, "Bridge"
2022
New England Conservatory of Music, "Notation with Cords and Strings"
2022
New England Conservatory of Music, mobile, "Musica Universalis"
2019
Stone Mobile, Cos Cob CT
2018
Anasazi Mobile, private residence, Boston, MA
2018
Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, Ryan’s, “Thinker”
2017
NEC Student Life and Performance Center,atrium mobile, "High Notes"
2017
NEC, "Scrolls" and "Tony's Bench” Saint Botolph Street, Boston
2017
Shrewsbury, MA, "Spag's Memorial"
2016
Cronin Park, Cambridge, MA, "Celebrate the Coast"
2013
Animal Rescue League, Boston "Pas de Deux"
2022
New England Conservatory of Music, "Bridge"
2011
Boston Esplanade Playground, “It's Turtles all the Way Down”
2010
Spectacle Island, Boston Harbor “Island Shelter”
2009
Brookline, MA "Memory of Stone" private collection
2009
Kent House, MGH, "Luna"
2008
Massachusetts General Hospital, roof garden, “Greetings from Planet Wok”
2007
University of Michigan Medical Center, Ann Arbor, MI. “Window”
2006
New England Wildflower Society, "Stegosaurus"
2006
Golden Shoe Award, City of Cambridge, MA
2006
Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, “Cellular Yolk”
2005
Andres Institute, Brookline, NH, “Five Dimensions and Counting”
2003
Boston Common Frog Pond Playground, Six bronze Frogs with water elements
2002
Mystic Riverbend Park Medallion, Medford, MA
2001
Landsdown Quadrangle, Cambridge, MA. “Passage”
2000
Eastport Park, South Boston, MA, “Chords”
2000
Rich Memorial Sculpture, Manchester, MA
1998
Seaport Hotel, S. Boston, MA., “Framed Landscape”
1997
Convention Center, Shiroishi City, Japan, "Parallel"
1997
Quincy Square Park, "Spiral", Cambridge, MA
1996
University of Southern Maine, Portland, "Map Stones"
1996
City Square Park, Charlestown, MA, fountain and bronze historical elements, with Halvorson Co
1995
Southern Utah University, Cedar City, "Fountain, Garden of Signs"
1994
School for the Deaf and Blind, Utah, "Seasons Table"
1994
Central Connecticut University, New Britain, "The Road Not Taken"
1993
Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, CT., "Nothing Gold Can Stay”
1993
Eastern Connecticut State University, Willimantic, “Spiral Plaza”
1993
Eastern Connecticut State University, Willimantic, "Red Bush Fountain"
1992
University of Utah, Salt Lake City, “Common Ground”
1992
Eastern Connecticut State University, Willimantic, “Water Strider Fountain”
1990
Kuzuwa garden, private courtyard, Tokyo, “Chair Stone”
1989
Holyoke College, "Frog Pond Fountain", S. Hadley, NIA, Architect, Graham Gund
1989
Hotel Sho Sen Kaku, Kofu, Japan, "Deconstructed Garden", with Horiike Urtopia, Tokyo
1988
Bridgeport Airport, Stratford, CT, "Enclosure, Homage to the Square Il."
1987
Student Union Plaza, U. MA., Amherst, “Worlds Within Worlds” not built
1986
Dana Park, Cambridge, MA., “Levitated Stone”
1986
Lechmere Canal, Boston, MA,“Beach Fragments”
1986
Carriage Town, Flint, MI., in collaboration with The Townscape Institute, Cambridge
1985
James Center, Richmond, VA. “The case of the missing executive”
1983
John Marshall Park, Washington DC, "Frog Pond Fountains"
1983
Riverside Press Park, Cambridge, MA, ”Bread”
1978
City of Chelsea MA Streetscape, bronze crab bricks
PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
Addison Gallery, Andover, MA
Andres Institute, Brookline, NH
Andrus Garden, Wayzata, Minnesota
Boyer, Weston, MA
Burns, E. Washington, NH
Chase Manhattan Bank, NYC
Children’s Hospital, Kent House, Boston
Drake Garden, St. Paul Minnesota
Duxbury Art Complex Museum, MA
Federation of the Blind, S. Winton, Lynn, MA
Forman, Brookline, MA
Fuller Crafts Museum, Brockton, MA
Halvorson, Brookline, MA
Jacobson, Brookline, MA
John Marshall Park, Washington, DC
Kane, Ogunquit, ME
M. Nagare, Takamatsu, Japan
Kenro Izu, NYC
Medellin, Columbia, South America
Anderson, Cambridge, MA
Patrick, San Francisco, CA
Rockefeller, Cambridge, MA
Ryan, Lake Geneva, Wisconsin
Talbot, Cohasset, MA
Tanaka, Cos Cob, CT
Urasenke Tea Foundation, Kyoto, Japan
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2024
"Highlights of the Collection, 50 Years" catalog, p 177, D Phillips, "Trilith", Art Complex Museum, MA
2022
Sandwich Enterprise, "Artist Creates Sculptures for NE Conservatory" 9/19/22 by Joanne Briana Gartner
2017
The Daily News,” 10/8/2017, "Lopes Legacy"
2008
The Boston Globe 5/08 Gallery Picks, "Schrodinger's Cat, Kate McCaid
2006
Artscope Magazine, fall issue, "Rock On", New England Wildflower Society
2004
Landscape Architecture Magazine, 3-04, “Critic at Large…People’s Park..”
2003
The Boston Globe, 5-11-03 “..Frogs..”
2002
Forest City Commercial Group, 2002-8 "Passage”, The Greening of Auburn Street
2001
The Boston Globe, 6-24-01 “Sculptor Adorns Nature”
2000
Business Journal, 10-13-00 “Artwork..Seaport”
1999
Water Spaces of the World, Volume 2, Images Publishing Group Pty ltd., Melbourne, Australia
1998
Sculpture Magazine, 1998-9 Commissions, “Quincy Square Spiral”
1998
The Cambridge Chronical, 4-23-98 "Public Art in Cambridge", Quincy Square
1998
Design Times, 4-98, "Love in the Garden"
1997
The Harvard Journal, 11-97 “Quincy Square”
1996
Construction Industry Magazine, “Cube”, project “Parallel”, Shiroishi, Japan
1994
Art New England, 1994-6/7 "Counterparts", feature Article by J. Schwendenwien
1993
Art New England, 1993-6/7, Akus Gallery, “David Phillips: Works in Stone, Bronze, and Iron”
1991
Boston Globe, 1991-8/2, Living Arts, ” Water Striders”, Christian Science reflecting pond
1991
Boston Globe, 1991-8/2, "Gallery without Walls"
1988
Boston Globe, 1988-18/8,Christine Temin, Federal Reserve Bank, Perspectives, “This is Your Garden”
1987
Garden Design, Summer 1987, “Translations in Stone”
1987
Icon Design & Architecture, 1987-11, “Works by David Phillips”
1986
Icon Design & Architecture, 1986-9, “David Phillips, Sculptor”
1986
Tokyo Magazine, 1986-7, “Living Among Stones”
1982
The Boston Globe, 10-22-82, Clark Gallery Christine Temin, “Inspiration in Lincoln”
1980
Art New England, 1980-12, cover and feature article by Lois Tarlow,. “David Phillips, Sculptor”
1979
Arts on the Line, Art for Public Spaces, Hayden Gallery, MIT, Catalog, D. Phillips, Porter Square
1978
Placemakers, Public Art That Tells You Where You Are, Hasting House Publishers. D Phillips, p 66 1975 “Peelings” time lapse 16mm film on the latex work of D Phillips by Len Gittleman
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025
Cotuit Art Center, Barnstable, MA, New Work, (Oct 18 – Nov 16)
2024
Odell Gallery, New Work, Chatham, MA
2006
Mandalas and Fields”, Drinkwaters, Cambridge, MA
2005
234 Gallery Hannah, Wellfleet, MA. "Barnacles, Bricks, Bronze, and Stone”
2005
Boston Sculptor’s Gallery, “New work in Space, Stone and Bronze”
2001-2004
E. Washington, New Hampshire, "Sculpture Walk" woodland installations
1994
Sacred Heart University, New Britain, CT, "A leaf, a Stone, an Unfound Door"
1993
Akus Gallery, E Connecticut State University, Willimantic, CT., Catalog
1990
Barn Gallery, Maine, "Courtyard installation"
1991
Christian Science Center reflecting pond fountain, Boston Arts Festival
1989
Sasaki Associates Inc., Watertown, MA. floor installation Richardson
1988
Barn Gallery, Ogunquit, Maine, Courtyard Installation, "Beach Frames"
1987
Gallery Space 21, Tokyo, Japan, "Art and Environment"
1986
Duxbury Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, MA.
1986
American Center, Tokyo, Japan
1986
American Center, Kyoto, Japan
1986
Sakura Gallery, Nagoya, Japan
1985
Watson Gallery, Wheaton College, Norton, MA
1984
Clark Gallery, Lincoln, MA
1979
Touchstone Gallery, NYC
1977
Jersey City State College, NJ
1975
Ward Nasse Gallery, New York
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024
Cahoon Museum of American Art, Artists Books
2023
Cotuit Art Center, “Above and Below”
2022
Cape Cod Art Center, Barnstable, members show, 1st in sculpture
2022
PAAM, Provincetown
2022
Cape Cod Museum of Art, Dennis, All New England Outdoor Sculpture
2018
Cos Cob, CT, “Rock Party”
2011
Cos Cob, CT, “Rock Party”
2009
Sacramento St. Gallery, Cambridge "Small Works"
2009
Brush Gallery, Lowell, "Massachusetts Artists"
2009
Tufts University Art Gallery Annual Show
2009
Boston Convention Center, Logan Airport, Brookline Public Library "Home is Where the Art is"
2009
Cambridge Arts Council Open Studios/NOCA
2008
Vitale/Caturane Gallery, Charlestown, MA
2007
NOCA open studios, Cambridge, MA
2006
Fitchburg Art Museum, “Boston Sculptors”
2006
Geoffry Young Gallery, “August Light”
2006
Lascano Gallery, Great Barrington, MA “Boston 10”
2006
West Medford Open Studios
2005
Tufts University Gallery Annual
2005
NOCA North Cambridge open studios
2004
University of Massachusetts, Boston
2004
DNA Gallery, Provincetown, Outdoor Sculpture Invitational
2003
Duxbury Art Complex Museum, “Boston Sculptors”
2001-2004
Medford Open Studios
2000-2004
Cos Cob, CT., “Rock Exhibition”
1998
NOCA Open Studios, Cambridge, MA
1997
Belknap Mill Society, Laconia, NH, "Echoes from the Woods" with Nat Burwash
1997
The Clark Gallery, Lincoln, MA, "Sculpture Outdoors"
1995
Cos Cob CT,, "Rock Exhibition"
1993
Copley Society, Boston, juror's award
1991
Kohler Art Center, Wisconsin
1990
The Society of Arts and Crafts, Boston, "The Mettle of Metal"
1989
Gallery Space 21, Tokyo, "Horiike/Phillips Interface"
1989
Cambridge Art Association, MA., "Creative Collaborations Artist/ Architect"
1989
Arden Gallery, Boston, “Enclosure” installation
1988
Federal Reserve Bank, Boston, "This is Your Garden", gallery installation
1988
Department of Transportation, Boston, "Art in Transportation"
1988
Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design
1988
Springfield, MA.; Worcester Craft Center, Worcester, MA., "Japanese Crafts"
1981
4A Bienal De Arte, Medellin, Columbia, SA
1980
Nesto Gallery Milton Academy, MA, "Drawing From Different Points of View, 9 Artists", catalog