This note accompanies the “Hiding in Broad Daylight” exhibition located at SFFA Main Street Gallery, showing February 26 - March 22, 2025.
I have a postcard with a 1989 image of a Philip Geiger painting that I acquired in the mid-90s. I have looked at the image often, and over the years realized that it is the background spaces that I am particularly drawn to in Philip’s work. I tend to look past the foreground figures and get lost in the distant windows, walls, and floors, when looking at his paintings. I saw a slide talk that Philip gave, about 1997, and I thought to myself that Philip painted the figures only as an excuse to paint the interior space. Of course this is not true, but I believe that Philip’s work both incited and affirmed my personal interest in the light and mood of interior spaces in painting.