
 The  work of British artist Phil King is an ingenious entanglement, networked by tactile surfaces, intersecting lines, holes, impasto paint and a dance between abstraction and figuration.
"King operates with and as play, forging works that are always both done and not done. Like Cézanne's feeling about his own work, King's worlds never feel absolutely complete. But it's not because they're lacking anything. No, it's because they live in the act of coming into being (or, to be pedantic, coming into "becoming"). Throughout King's vast body of work, you can't  help but notice the gleam of creation's immediacy as if, in our very viewing, these paintings come to be. They don't feel like masterpieces, as it were. We don't stand back in awe at the sublimity of their creation, afraid to approach. This is not Rembrandt. Nor is it the absurd closure of, say, Frank Stella whose canvases and sculptures are tightly closed nouns. No, viewing King's paintings, we participate in the very act of creation as we feel the electricity that such creative acts emit. King's paintings are verbs."
Daniel Coffeen 2021

PHIL KING

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