richard phillips in frieze

polly: richard philllips work in issue 95 of frieze, is unmistakable. his work is usually massive bright canvases that feature themes of prositution. the work that jumped out to me was this image (above, that i copied off the whitecude gallery site) 'threesome'. when i first saw this in frieze a while back i started crying, which is a strange response to have. yet considering that at the time i was paranoid that my ex was seeing someone else, perhaps you can let me off :P

i couldn't get the image out of my head though and i thought it would be cool to share it to see what your response is. i think looking back on it now, it's very clever how phillips has hidden the faces of the lovers so that their identities are anonymous. the realism is very effective in making the scene and themes associated to it realistic in todays society and yet still distant to us. one of the best things about this ad was that it lead me to further research the white cube gallery in london. well worth checking out; www.whitecube.com