Kerry Phillips creates sculptures and installations using materials, often overlooked, available in a given place at a given time – ranging from things found to collected experiences and retold stories. Often, she’ll alter a space using architectural interventions and enlist the public’s participation in the gathering of materials or through performative interactions. In her talk, Happenstance & Resistance: the shared story of things, Phillips will consider the seemingly accidental nature of the materials she finds & uses and her dogged refusal/inability to look at things in ordinary ways. Though she may also talk about anything but that and digress often in her easy-going personal storytelling-style way of sharing.

Bio
Kerry Phillips, just awarded one of the 2015 South Florida Cultural Consortium Fellowships, opening at FAU Sept 19, has shown extensively in Miami/South Florida including projects with Locust Projects, the Miami Art Museum, the Art & Culture Center of Hollywood, ArtCenter/SouthFlorida, the Girls’ Club Collection, The Deering Estate & Bridge Red Studios Project Space. She earned an MFA from the University of Arizona in 2003. Recently also awarded a commissioned project with Vizcaya’s Lost Spaces and Stories of Vizcaya Contemporary Arts Program, she’s also received other grants for her art making from public and private organizations as well as residencies and shows in Ohio, Vermont, New York, North Carolina, Berlin, Krakow and France. Phillips lives and works in Miami.