TW Fine Art is pleased to present its next exhibition at its Palm Beach location, centered around the artist Hubert Phipps, running from November 27th to December 28th.

Phipps, a sculptor & painter, is best known for his pigment works, paintings, and abstract sculptures, incorporating steel, bronze, wood, composites, plaster, and glass. An avid pilot, having flown for close to five decades. Phipps often pilots his Airbus Helicopter H-120 down to Palm Beach from his artist studio in Virginia. Having logged 4,000+ hours of flying time, a significant influence on Phipps' work has come from the view he gets while flying.

Takes Flight seeks to demonstrate unity between Phipps' explorations of humanity, culture, and production and how the body can serve as a means to use instruments and as a tool of artistic production itself. 

As described by exhibition curator Ty Cooperman, "Phipps approaches his artistic practice like a seasoned horologist, in which beauty arises from the marriage of precision engineering and nature's proclivity for entropy."

Phipps loved to draw from an early age, having learned from looking at his father's archive of political cartoons, which he'd transcribe. To this day, he still begins most of his concepts in a sketchbook, starting with simple lines and fleshing out forms from there. However, when it comes to putting some of his broader ideas into existence, Phipps takes a less visual approach covering his eyes and eliminating light sources when he's working with paint pigment. In Deep End, we see the result of Phipps covering his body in color and gesturally creating a painting utilizing bodily motion. This work represents a progression over time, a moment that existed across dimensions of time and space–– captured and made static for all eternity. And yet, an impression of motion remains. This extension of the body into his work continues throughout the exhibition.

In Rocket, Hubert explores the relationship between materials, design, and physical movement. The object itself may be static and seemingly frozen in space and time, yet it represents how we all can venture across planes. A hint at his aviation background, Rocket exists almost somewhere between a photograph and a video -- it isn't precisely a single moment - but rather a collection of moments made singular. "Pinnacle" builds upon the relationship between space and motion. This gold polygonal structure becomes engulfed by pyramid-like forms and encourages us to make sense of the design. Despite its eternal stillness, it is nearly impossible to experience this work and not be struck by the sensation of having found a projectile seized by the power of earth and weight.

Phipps' penchant for design presents itself as a means of perfection in the surfaces of each work –– nothing unintentional or out of place. We see a relation between the sculptural works as they exist in a simplified two-dimensional silhouette and three dimensions. Like a racecar or a plane, the profile is carefully considered equally in object movement and interaction with the ether. 

"Hubert Phipps offers a much-needed contemporary perspective on the endless quest to portray motion and energy in the visual arts. Like the Italian Futurists before him, Phipps encourages us all to reconsider the relationship between the organic and the industrial." - Ty Cooperman

This exhibition is running concurrently alongside "I Never Promised You A Rose Garden," which will feature works by Erika Keck (primary), Katarina Riesing (primary), Joseph Leroux (primary), Stephan Doitschinoff (primary), Stacey Lee Webber (primary), Richard Gabriele (Primary), Ted Noten, Andy Warhol, Vik Muniz, Ghada Amer & Reza Farkondeh, Mickalene Thomas, Carlos Betancourt, and McDermott & McGough.