With her large scale text drawings Pheobus excavates the lyrics of love songs and other fragments of language through an elaborate process of performative inscription.     The examination of these words explores what lies between the letters.   Often recalling the accumulative motions of textile practice which has long been entwined with ideas of femininity they conjure up memories of the alphabet sampler.   A craft document which certified marriage and the private life here becomes confrontational in its scale and thereby thrusts representations of intimacy and sexuality into the realm of public address.

Exhibitions:

Solo Exhibits:

2009: Lay in the Reins, Bellwether Gallery, New York, NY, USA

Group Exhibits:

2009: DE$IRE, Holster Projects, London, UK

2009: Unaddressed Circumventions: Folds from a Failed Suicide, curated by Ajay Kurian, Gresham’s Ghost, New York, USA

2009: In Search of the Miraculous, Ochi Gallery, Ketchum, ID, USA

2009: Nota Bene, Dorsch Gallery, Miami, FL, USA

2009: The Practice of Joy Before Death: It just would not be a party without you (A DIe Storug Situation), Scaramouche c/o Fruit and Flower Deli, New York, NY, USA

2008: Lost in Your Eyes, curated by Dominic Mangila and Jon Cuyson, LeRoy Neiman Gallery, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA

2008: The New Academy, Robert Lehman Art Center, North Andover, MA, USA

2008: Summer Mix Tape Volume One, Exit Art, New York, NY, USA

2008: New York School, Rohrer Fine Art, Laguna Beach, CA, USA

2008: Zero Zone, curated by David Hunt, Tracy Williams, Ltd., New York, NY,USA

2008: Opportunity as Community: Artists Select Artists, Dieu Donné, New York, NY, USA

2008: Columbia MFA Thesis Exhibition, Fisher Landau Center for Art, Long Island City, NY, USA

2008: Face Forward, LeRoy Neiman Gallery, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA

2007: Text Messages, Adam Baumgold Gallery, New York, NY, USA

2007: First Year MFA Exhibition, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia, University, New York, NY, USA

2005: No Nouns Allowed (Drawing as a Verb), LeRoy Neiman Gallery, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA

Press:

2009: Brooklyn Review, Issue 26

2009: Black is the colour (special project), NYFA Current, May 2009

2009: Nichols, Matthew, Art in America, April 209

2009: Cotter, Holland, The Practice of Joy Before Death; it just would not be a party without you, New York Times, April 17, 2009

2009: Doran, Anne, The Practice of Joy Before Death; it just would not be a party without you, Time Out New York, April 2009

2008: Coburn Tyler, The Rundown: Columbia University’s 2008 MFA Thesis exhibition, Rhizome.org, May 14, 2008

2008: Costello, Marie, The New Academy: 2008, Graduates of the Columbia University MFA Program, exhibition catalogue

2008: Withrow, Joel, 2008, Columbia MFA Thesis Exhibition, Flavorpill, May 4 2008