From the Canyons to the Stars (MCA Denver Atrium reh.) assembles a constellation of images drawn from the artist's private archive of "made, found, and modified" media. The installation unfolds as a vertical cosmology and symbolic ecology, ascending from canyon walls and desert landscapes through mountains, birds, and open sky toward the stars. Regional imagery intertwines with personal mythology to propose landscape as simultaneously geological, emotional, and cosmological. Named after Olivier Messiaen's orchestral work, Phillips' constellation invites viewers to inhabit the space(s) between earthly experience and celestial imagination.
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Noah Travis Phillips is an experimental collage artist working with their private media archive of “made, found, and modified” images to interrelate the personal, mythological, occult, cultural, and ecological. Their practice explores the posthuman and the Anthropocene through a range of digital and physical formats. In tandem, they aim to subtly insert themselves into art history by cultivating a personal legend or parafiction.
They are an artist, educator, and scholar. (BA, Naropa University, Fine Art and Environmental Studies; MFA, University of Denver, Emergent Digital Practices). They are Assistant Professor & FabLab (Z-Space) Coordinator at Rocky Mountain College of Art + Design. They have exhibited extensively locally, nationally, internationally, and virtually.