✧ Winner of the 2022 Southeast Review Art Contest ✧

Selected by Nneka Jones

Philana Oliphant

Phase Out—Delete

graphite on Arches 88

22 x 30 inches

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Lost Bird Song

graphite on BFK Rives

22 x 30 inches

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Adjust to Reality

graphite on Arches 88

14 x 19 inches

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Swallow’s Bone

charcoal on Somerset

19 x 24 inches

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Straight Seems Crooked

charcoal on Somerset

22 x 30 inches

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Mirage

charcoal on Somerset

22 x 30 inches

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The Sound of Breaking

graphite on BFK Rives

22 x 30 inches

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Dead Bird List (cropped)

graphite on BFK Rives

42 x 118 inches

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PHILANA OLIPHANT is a Texas-based artist whose interdisciplinary work includes drawings, sculpture, prints, and installations. She has exhibited her work nationally for thirty years. Recent exhibitions include The Texas National, Nacogdoches, Texas, AMoA Biennial 600 Justice-Equality-Race-Identity Amarillo Museum of Art, Amarillo Texas, Recording History, Gormley Gallery, Notre Dame of Maryland University, Texas JuriedExhibition, Fort Worth Texas, and a solo exhibition Wingload at KSpace Contemporary in Corpus Christi, Texas. She shares a studio in the woods with her husband James R. Pace, her poet daughter Aza Pace and three adorable rescued dogs.

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