Phil Delisle
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Shifting Contexts (2025)

My earlier painting series often featured studio scenes, museum and galleries, and large-scale constructed spaces. Shifting Contexts is an installation where these systems are folded into the evolving logic of plexiglass painting. The earlier images, known for their spatial ambiguity, fragmentation, and painterly construction, return as sites of disruption and reinhabitation.

Working across reverse plexiglass, cut forms, and installation, the image is no longer contained within a single surface. Instead, elements are distributed across objects, walls, and architectural space, where they intersect with gesture, digital fragments, and process-based marks. The plexiglass operates as a point of interference, introducing transparency, reversal, and layering into previously flat, unified fields.

Brushstrokes, gestures, and paint itself begin to function as figures, moving between image and object, surface and space. Earlier compositional logics are not extended but complicated, folded into new relationships that are unstable, sometimes excessive, and at times bordering on absurd