PHIL SCHIRMER
I graduated from college with a degree in English Literature and then spent ten years working cash registers, pasting up advertisements for newspapers, and even, for a short spell, making miniature carousels. In my mid-thirties I was still scanning help wanted ads.
Someone suggested I try to make a living as an artist. I went out and bought some books and taught myself egg tempera, a medium that takes a minimum of 3 lifetimes to master.
Twenty years later, I have accepted the fact that my life is, and always will be, out of control.
SHOW HISTORY
1987 – Stratton Arts Festival, Stratton, Vermont (juried)
1988 – Sharon Art Center, Sharon, New Hampshire (juried)
1989 – Stratton Arts Festival, Stratton, Vermont (juried)
1989 – Chaffee Art Center, Rutland, Vermont (three-person show)
1993 – R. Michelson Gallery, Amherst, Massachusetts (headliner for group show)
1997 – Symphony Hall, Boston, Massachusetts (group show)
2001 – Nan Mulford Gallery, Rockport, Maine (solo show)
2002-2003 – “Egg Tempera: An Enduring Tradition,” a traveling exhibit featuring egg tempera painters from around the world.
2003 – Nan Mulford Gallery, Rockland, Maine (solo show)
2003 – Greenhut Gallery, Portland, Maine (solo show)
2005 – Nan Mulford Gallery, Rockland, Maine (solo show)
2006 – “Three Modern Masters,” a three-person egg tempera show at R. Michelson Galleries, Northampton, Massachusetts
2007 – Mulford Gallery, Rockland, Maine (solo show)
2007 – “Tempera Ten” exhibit, Westfield State College, featuring ten egg tempera painters from around the country.
2008 – Painting = Poetry, Sherry French Gallery, New York City (group show)
2009 Mulford Gallery, Rockland, Maine
GALLERY AFFILIATIONS
Leighton Gallery, Blue Hill, Maine
Mulford Gallery, Rockland, Maine
R. Michelson Galleries, Amherst and Northampton, Massachusetts
LINKS
Rob Milliken
Alex Garcia
Dennis Harper
Frederick Kellogg
eggtemper.org