Manhunt is a pair of testicles nailed to a plain white wall, bleeding downward. Constructed from silicone, fake blood, and acrylic, the work draws on special effects and horror film tropes, foregrounding a surreal artifice and visceral illusion. Named after a book suggested by the artist’s partner, the dark humor points toward more urgent and contemporary concerns around power, masculinity, violence, and vulnerability.
[accepted into, and then rejected from [redacted exhibition title] at [redacted gallery] because of a policy against "the depiction of violence against any gender"]
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bio
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.