Student Profile
Phillip Byrne
MFA, Art Studio
B.A., California State University, Stanislaus--Studio Art
Having been stripped of bodily/cognitive/emotional autonomy by
illnesses which interrupted his undergraduate studies,
Phillip Byrne utilizes the act of making as an opportunity to
play the role of ontological surgeon – placing his own
metaphysical body on the dissection table and exploring its
interior contents. He explores holistic ontological identity
through divergent processes which manifest personal associations
and allow for explorations of the interior anatomies of
mind/body/emotions, appraisals of their damages, and questionings
of relationship to all three.