Shiri Phillips: Ensembles in Color
March 7 – April 10, 2026
Opening: Saturday, March 7, 4:00 – 6:00 PM
Bold palettes and rhythmic structure anchor Ensembles in Color, a solo exhibition by Shiri Phillips—vibrant, energetic works where impasto pixels meet a kaleidoscopic cadence. Phillips builds her compositions through repetition and instinct, using vivid color and structured variation to create works that feel immediate and alive, inviting the viewer into a surface of pulse, pattern, and saturated light.
Her visual language arrives in clustered units—fragments and stacked forms that click into place, then slip into new arrangements. Color moves in sequences and interruptions, composing a tempo of return and variation. Texture turns that movement tangible: shadow settles into recesses, brightness rides the edges, and the surface stays responsive as you shift from one vantage point to the next.
A deep connection to place and memory runs beneath the work. Phillips draws inspiration from the Mediterranean and Southern California landscapes of her childhood, and that history emerges less as depiction than as sensation—the memory of heat and light, the afterimage of saturated color against sky. The paintings translate those remembered environments into a contemporary syntax: bold color used as atmosphere, repetition used as emphasis, and texture used as evidence of making.
Phillips describes her practice as rooted in intuition and play, embracing the unexpected beauty of imperfection and the freedom of abstraction. In these paintings, that approach reads as both disciplined and generous: decisions are intuitive, yet the results feel intentionally paced, with every passage contributing to the larger charge of the whole. Color becomes more than a compositional choice—it becomes a life force, carrying emotion through structure, and inviting sustained looking through the physical presence of paint.
Shiri Phillips is a painter and mixed media artist based in Omaha, Nebraska, where she earned her BA in Art History from the University of Nebraska. Since beginning her studio practice, she has exhibited at galleries and art fairs across the globe, including in New York, California, Texas and Zurich, and is represented by Artspace Warehouse (Los Angeles), Kunstwarenhaus (Zurich), Modern Arts Midtown (Omaha), and PxP Contemporary. Her work has appeared in film and television, including You People (Netflix) and All’s Fair (Hulu).
Since the opening of Artspace Warehouse in 2010, the gallery continues to be an industry leader in affordable, museum-quality artworks, making collecting art accessible and budget-friendly. With one gallery in Zurich and two galleries in Los Angeles, Artspace Warehouse specializes in guilt-free international urban, pop, graffiti, figurative, and abstract art. The expansive 5,000-square-foot space offers a large selection of emerging and established artists from all over the world.
