Hubert Phipps

Each year, the Flint Print Club commissions an artist to produce a print to augment both the FIA’s collection and the pursuit of personal collecting. The Club is limited to 100 members in good standing at the Family level of above. Flint Print Club dues are $250 annually, which provides each participating member with a selected print and related programs.

The FIA is excited to announce that Hubert Phipps has been chosen for the 2022 commissioned print. A sculptor, painter, and printmaker, Phipps began his career as an illustrator, but a visit to Willem de Kooning’s studio in the 1970s opened his eyes to abstract art. Strongly influenced by Clyfford Still, and inspired by underwater realms, Phipps offers “a much-needed contemporary perspective on the endless quest to portray motion and energy in the visual arts” said Ty Cooperman, curator of the artist’s recent solo exhibition at TW Fine Art during Art Basel in Miami, FL. He uses unconventional methods in creating his paintings and pigment drawings, often covering his eyes or drawing in complete darkness to allow his subconscious to guide the brush until the work takes on a life of its own. Phipps describes the commissioned print: “Passage East explores the ambiguity of spatial construction where negative and positive forms vacillate, making the eye perceive different realities.” 

Phipps has exhibited nationwide. He is in numerous collections including the Georgia Museum of Art, the Harn Museum of Art, and Boca Raton Museum of Art. Currently, he is working on a multimedia installation for the Virginia

Museum of Fine Arts as part of their renovation and expansion project. You can learn more about the artist and his work on his website at hubertphipps.com

Hubert Phipps
American, born 1957
Passage East, 2022
Screenprint on paper
22 x 30 inches

Print Club Membership Form

Use this form to send in your membership by mail.