Hartwick college

Professor of Art
E-Mail: youngp@hartwick.edu

Phil teaches courses in 2-D design and drawing, beginning through advanced painting, and papermaking.

Of Cherokee and Scotch-Irish descent, Phil is a member of the "Facade Buster Clan". His widely exhibited paintings, drawing, and mixed media installations affirm the necessity of "on/site for insight", geophysically/culturally/autobiographically. "Cultural raids" into Tourist Trading Posts of the Southwest, have become sources for performances, and "Genuine Indian Burial Sites". These parodies have been temporarily installed on canyon rims, in museums and galleries. Satirical text accompanies the collected and fabricated items which unmask, subvert, and celebrate the demise of the "inauthentic-GENUINE INDIAN", perpetuated in trading post breeding grounds. Recently the disabling effects of Multiple Sclerosis have entered his mixedbloodbodyscape.

He is recipient of residencies at the Millay Colony, the Kohler Foundation, a Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant in Painting and Sculpture, and a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Sculpture.

He has exhibited at the Heard Museum William Benton Museum, Atlanta History Center, Art-in-General and the Swiss Institute in NYC. National Exhibitions include four year traveling ARTRAIN, USA "NATIVE VIEWS: INFLUENCES OF MODERN CULTURE Contemporary Native American Art". His work has been reproduced in On the Beaten Track & The Lure of the Local (L. Lippard),