Artoberfest Judged Show & Competition
COST: $35/Member $50/Non-Members
Includes a limit of 2 pieces per artist
Intake Dates: Friday, September 25th 12-3pm
& Saturday, September 26th 10am-1pm
Reception: Friday, October 9th 6-9pm
IMPORTANT NOTE: Due to the growing volume of artists who participate in this show, the
number of artists will be limited to sixty (60) artists who can submit for this opportunity. Once this show reaches sixty artists, the online registration form will close.
Meet the Judge
Paul Travis Phillips
Paul Travis Phillips is a multidisciplinary artist working across painting, sculpture, altered objects, installation, performance, and writing. His practice engages language as both subject and material, drawing from discarded or suppressed sources—banned books, abandoned texts, and cultural residue—to examine how knowledge is formed, fractured, and carried.
Approaching art as a recursive process of material and philosophical inquiry, Phillips develops work that resists resolution, favoring slowness, instability, and sustained attention over clarity and consumption. His projects foreground moments where systems of knowledge begin to break down—where understanding slips, abstractions take hold, and the illusion of understanding settles in—revealing the conditions that shape what can be known, said, or preserved, and holding those conditions open for further inquiry.
He is an Associate Professor of Art at Elon University. Across studio, text, and teaching, his work sustains a long-term investigation into intellectual resilience, authorship, and the structures through which ideas take form.
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