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About our
artist:
Born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, Phillip Brugalette moved to
Southern California where he taught university level courses in film
studies and creative writing. During that time, his original fantasy
novel, The Nine Gates (1992),
was
published by Wizards of the
Coast (formally TSR.)
Phillip relocated to Seattle, WA in 2001 where he now writes film
reviews for the
award winning Leisure Books
sponsored eZine The Chiaroscuro while
busily creating images for his digital photography studio.
Phillip is a
digital photographic artist, and while a good number of his images are
of the natural and man-made world, many of his images are dedicated to
fantasy and science fiction. What makes his works different from
other
digital
and graphic art forms is that no
pictures or graphic images are downloaded or copied from any other
source, such as the Internet. All the subjects of Phillip's
images
have been captured with his digital camera as seen through his eyes. It
is only later, within a computer environment that the image is
transformed into something that does not exist on
this world, making every work unique.
Awards
and Exhibitions:
In February 2008, Phillip's "The Eyes Have it" won a Photographic
Society of America Merit Award in the Electronic Imaging Division.
In March 2007, Phillip's "Sunrise on the
Ganges" was accepted as a finalist in the International Tropical
Image Exhibition
In June 2006, "Aquarium Fantastique," and
"Creator of Worlds" were accepted, by jury, for display in the Edmonds
Arts Festival Gallery in Edmonds, Washington.
In 2006, Phillip's "Trapped" took Third Place in the Creative Category
at the Northwest Council of Camera Clubs Digital Competition.
In 2006, Phillip's "Eurasian Eagle Owl" and
"Piggy Back Tigers" were finalists in the General Category of the
Photographic Society of America's Tropical Image International
Exhibition, while his creative image, "Dark Sky" was a finalist in the
Creative Category.
In May, 2006, "Aquarium Fantastique" won a ribbon as one of the
top ten entries in the Photographic Society of America's Electronic Image Division's
International Competition.
At the 2005 Northwest Council
of Camera
Clubs Conference held in Bellingham, Washington,
"Delicate Elegance" won Second Place and a Judges' Choice Award
in the Creative Category, "Aquarium Fantastique" won Honorable Mention
in the Large Open Color Print Salon, and "Ova" won both a Creative
Award and an Honorable Mention in the Large Open Monochrome Print
Salon.
"Delicate Elegance" was also a finalist in the 2005 PSA International Exhibition in
the Color Creative Category
"Spirits of the Forest," "The Lost World," and
"Enchanted
Forest" were finalists in the 2005 International Tropical Image
Exhibition Digital Creative Category.
"The Lost World" was also the Art Show Staff's
Blue Ribbon Pick at Seattle's 2005 Norwescon
Science Fiction and Fantasy Convention.
"Vrindaban Wild Hogs," a finalist
in the National
Wildlife Federation's 2004 Photography Contest was
showcased at their web site during October 2005.
"Spirits of the Forest" and
"Enchanted Forest" also won several awards in the Creative Category in
2004 from the Northwest Council
of Camera
Clubs,
while his
nature image "Keoladeo Spoonbills" won in their General Category.
"The Blood is the Life," his captured image of a spider draining a
fly's blood, won the Seattle
Woodland Park
Zoo's Master of the Web
award for 2004.
Publications:
India: A
Photographer's Paradise is a non-fiction account of Phillip's
2004 experience photographing wildlife at the Keoladeo Bird Sanctuary
in
Bharatpur, India. The article, complete with pictures, is a featured in
the October 2005 issue of the Photographic
Society of America Journal.
Several images, also from
his 2004 India trip, are featured in the book Eighteen Days: Sri
Panca-tattva's Mayapur lila (Alankara Books 2004, Calcutta, India),
which commemorates an eighteen day Hindu holy festival.
Gallery
Shows:
From March 20 - 23, 2008, Phillip will be showcasing some of his
favorite science fiction and fantasy prints at the Norwescon Science Fiction and Fantasy
Convention Art Show in Seattle. Call 206-270-7850 for more
information.
In May 2007, several of Phillip's images were part of a group
exhibition at The London Line Gallery in Bothell, WA.
In March of 2007, several of Phillip's images were part of a group
exhibition at the Shoreline Arts Gallery in Shoreline, WA.
In April 2007, Phillip
did a gallery show of his science fiction and fantasy
photography at the Norwescon
Science Fiction and Fantasy Convention in Seattle, WA.
In June 2006, "Aquarium
Fantastique," and
"Creator of Worlds" were accepted for display in the Edmonds
Arts Festival Gallery in Edmonds, Washington.
In 2005, Phillip's one person show,
India: Hearts and Souls, a collection
of his portraits and temples, ran for the month of May at Studio
2602 in Seattle, WA.
In April 2004, several of Phillip's images were chosen for exhibition
at the Cascades Academy of Photography Gallery in Issaquah, WA as part
of a Seattle Photographic Society group show.
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