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About Phillips Gallery

Phillips Gallery is the oldest commercial gallery (55 years and counting) in the Intermountain West. We represent artists working in a variety of media including painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, ceramics, printmaking, jewelry, and mixed media. Our artists are primarily from Utah or the surrounding area. Phillips Gallery also represents national and international artists who have an association with Utah. You will discover a full range of subject matter, from traditional to contemporary. The gallery is also available to do custom framing, appraisals, restoratio...Read More

Phillips Gallery

Established in 19651stDibs seller since 2021

Featured Pieces

25th Street
Located in Salt Lake City, UT
25th Street, by Elise Zoller, 24 x 30 in. oil on panel. Elise Zoller has recently embarked on a series of plein air paintings of sites around Salt Lake City and in the smaller towns of Utah from Hurricane to Huntsville. She has enjoyed meeting people along the road and learning about the history of the state. “Plein air work can be physically demanding, but there is no substitute for working from life. Light and shadow dance in subtle ways a photograph cannot capture. Even the wind and the fragrances it carries inform the work. Scenes come alive when you stand in one place for a few hours. You’ve got to get to know a spot,” Elise says. “While I work, all manner of people come up and talk to me about their towns and their lives. I’ve met a downwinder from Enterprise, pie bakers in Veyo, pony cart...
Category

2010s Other Art Style Paintings

Materials

Linen, Birch, Oil

25th Street

Elise Zoller
25th Street, 2020

Wendover.3
By Joseph Ostraff
Located in Salt Lake City, UT
"Wendover 3" by Joseph Ostraff, oil on panel, 36 X 31 inches, $4,800. "For me, paint documents the state of things, how I feel and what is at the forefront in my thinking—maybe it’s like the soup of the day. I do not consider this process to be anything special in itself. The paintings record the daily random and absurd associations I make, which seem interesting to me after the fact. The Domestic paintings are a case in point. My wife and I have six children. Four have left home. Three are married. We are left with two children, both currently in middle school. We have about five years and they too will move out. This is on my mind. I am thinking about the layers of memories and it comes out as layers of paint. Feeling nostalgic, I think about all the noise and activity our home has absorbed. In turn, I found children’s large vinyl decals from Angry Birds...
Category

2010s Post-Modern Abstract Paintings

Materials

Oil, Panel

Wendover.3

Joseph Ostraff
Wendover.3, 2019

Dressed In Yellow
Located in Salt Lake City, UT
Dressed in Yellow, oil on panel, 11 x 17 inches (Framed size: 18 x 24 inches), $1,500 Raised in the Bear River Valley, Tom Howard has an attachment to the la...
Category

2010s American Realist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Wood Panel, Oil

Dressed In Yellow

Tom Howard
Dressed In Yellow, 2019

in situ
By Carolyn Coalson
Located in Salt Lake City, UT
(Framed size: 17.5 x 17.5 inches)
Category

2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings

Materials

Watercolor

in situ

Carolyn Coalson
in situ, 2021

Breath
By Carolyn Coalson
Located in Salt Lake City, UT
"Breath" by Carolyn Coalson, watercolor, 10 X 10 inches (Framed size: 17.5 x 17.5) “Every day brings a challenge. A new year is too big a chunk to deal with. So I’ll just do what ...
Category

2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor

Breath

Carolyn Coalson
Breath, 2021

San Rafael Reef #2
By Mark Knudsen
Located in Salt Lake City, UT
San Rafael Reef #2, acrylic on panel, 11 x 37 1/2 inches, $2,200 “It is my feeling that the desert country of the American West is too large, too wild, too gorgeous to be encompassed by traditional landscape painting. Our inherited aesthetic defines beauty in landscape as green and arable land or grand, breathtaking places. I feel the need to expand that definition. I want to portray the desert as it is right now; to dispense with the limitations of what has come before, to quietly point out the beauty of places that are harsh and forbidding to habitation but express an aesthetic of the wild. I strive to go beyond the sentimentality that often defines our images of the West. The scale of many of my pieces (an extreme horizontal) is a compositional strategy to capture the vastness of these places.” – M. Knudsen Mark Knudsen...
Category

2010s Other Art Style Landscape Paintings

Materials

Panel, Acrylic

San Rafael Reef #2

Mark Knudsen
San Rafael Reef #2, 2018

Blue Tarp
By Oonju Chun
Located in Salt Lake City, UT
Blue Tarp, oil on canvas, 60 x 50 in. (unframed, gallery-wrapped canvas). Oonju Chun’s large abstract expressionist paintings delightfully employ the basic...
Category

2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Blue Tarp

Oonju Chun
Blue Tarp, 2019

Golden Light
By Connie Borup
Located in Salt Lake City, UT
"Golden Light", Connie Borup, oil on canvas, 30 x 40 inches (Framed size: 33 x 43 inches), $4,800 “Connie Borup’s work cannot simply be described as land...
Category

2010s American Realist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Golden Light

Connie Borup
Golden Light, 2016

Origin: How God and I Created the World
By Tony Smith
Located in Salt Lake City, UT
"Origin: How God And I Created The World" acrylic on canvas, 45.5 x 61.5 inches (unframed), $9,500 Tony Smith’s paintings are works in motion. They are tho...
Category

1990s Surrealist Still-life Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Origin: How God and I Created the World

Tony Smith
Origin: How God and I Created the World, 1993

BOOM!
By Joseph Ostraff
Located in Salt Lake City, UT
BOOM! mixed oils on panel 40 x 70 inches (unframed, raw wood sides) $14,500 Joe Ostraff is a professor of art at Brigham Young University. He received a BFA from Brigham Young Univ...
Category

2010s Abstract Geometric Abstract Paintings

Materials

Oil, Panel

BOOM!

Joseph Ostraff
BOOM!, 2021

Untitled, 1974
By Claudia Sisemore
Located in Salt Lake City, UT
"Untitled, 1974" by Claudia Sisemore, acylic on canvas, 58 x 56 inches, $7,200. Unframed. "I have a vague idea of what I am going to paint. I read that many artists are inspired by an idea before they begin their work and plan their approach and process based on that idea or muse. Others become inspired after they have begun working and watching colors, shapes and designs form. I basically belong the second group. Usually, after painting begins in a loose, free manner, I become excited by certain colors and patterns and continue from there." -Claudia Sisemore -- Caudia Sisemore says she was teaching English when artist David Chaplin (an equally popular and influential teacher) was at Weber and initially got her into landscape painting. “Then he took me to a show at the Art Barn and Lee [Deffebach] was showing there [with Don Olsen...
Category

1970s Color-Field Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Untitled, 1974

Claudia Sisemore
Untitled, 1974, 1974

Parallel Construction
By Oonju Chun
Located in Salt Lake City, UT
Parallel Construction, oil on canvas, 48 x 54 in. Oonju Chun’s large abstract expressionist paintings delightfully employ the basics of good, nonobjective ...
Category

2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Parallel Construction

Oonju Chun
Parallel Construction, 2018

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More About Phillips Gallery

Phillips Gallery opened its doors to the Utah public in 1965. Bonnie and Denis Phillips (pictured) set up shop in a former dry-cleaning building, confident that they could create an establishment which would both promote and advance Utah art. It was the first venture of its kind, by and for a group of forward-thinking artists.

Now, 56 years later, Phillips Gallery houses the largest stable of artists in the state. Our three floors of exhibit space feature rotating exhibits of painting, sculptures, photography, original jewelry, and ceramics. (PICTURED: Main Gallery exhibit of oil painting by Patricia Kimball and watercolors by Rebecca Livermore)

At its core, Phillips Gallery remains committed to its original goal: to represent a diverse selection of some of the finest regional artists in a comfortable, service-oriented atmosphere.

Our main floor is dedicated to exhibiting new work by 1 - 3 artists, rotating every month. (pictured: Main Gallery exhibit by Heather Barron and Nancy Vorm)

Our extensive upstairs gallery (where Bonnie and Denis Phillips used to live) displays rotating work by all of our artists, in a uniquely casual setting.

Our downstairs floor, the Dibble Gallery, also features a new solo show each month. (pictured: encaustic and found metal paintings by Elena Lawrence)

Diversity is an essential element at Phillips Gallery; style and subject matter range from traditional to contemporary. (pictured: painting by Joseph Ostraff)

Another corner of our downstairs Dibble Gallery, featuring a taster from our stable of artists.

(pictured) Main Floor exhibition by Ceramicist Larry Elsner and Photography by Edward Bateman.

(pictured: "Reversing Photosynthesis" series by Edward Bateman in our Main Gallery)