Timothy S. Philbrick
Side Table
Side Table
macassar ebony/ top- figured satinwood
25" x 30" x 15"
2008
25" x 30" x 15"
2008
April 19 through May 8, 2009
Timothy S. Philbrick and Tony Ramos: Native Sons
Gallery Hours: Monday-Friday 12-4pm, Weekends 2-4pm
Timothy S. PhilbrickTimothy S. Philbrick and Tony Ramos: Native Sons
Gallery Hours: Monday-Friday 12-4pm, Weekends 2-4pm
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Education
1971-1975: Apprenticed to John C. Northup, Jr. - N. Kingstown, RI
1975-1978: Boston University, Program in Artisanry, Certificate of Mastery, Wood Furniture Design
1975-1978: Boston UNiversity, Graduate Courses, American Studies Department
Professional Experience
1978-Present: Established studio in Narragansett, RI designing and building fine furniture
1971-1975: Apprentice to John C. Northrup, Jr. restoring and reproducing American period furniture.
1970: Store manager and partner, Mt. Arrarat Antiques, Corte Madera, CA
Awards
2002: Pell Award, Trinity Repertory Co., Providence, RI
1997: Rhode Island State Council on the Arts Fellowship in Crafts
1991: Rhode Island State Council on the Arts Fellowship
1988: NEA Artists Fellowship
Tony Ramos
Artist's Statement
Tim Philbrick and I met at the Church of the Mediator on Elmwood Avenue in 1968. I was taking sanctuary in the church in protest of being drafted in to the Army. It was the height of the Civil rights and anti-war movements. Tim was one of the supporters who came to the church to express their solidarity. We have been friends ever since.
Tim would show me around his ‘old Yankee’ Rhode Island and I would introduce him to my ‘old Cape Verdean’ Rhode Island. Our histories have overlapped from the days of whaling and immigration, from Benefit Street to South County.
Our creative pats have led us to explore different media, Tim as a pre-eminent furniture maker, me as a video artist and painter. We are proud and honored to have this exhibition together at the Providence Art Club and to call it ‘Native Sons,’ for we truly are sons of Rhode Island.
Tony Ramos was born in Providence in 1944. He holds a fine arts degree from Southern Illinois University and a master’s degree from California Institute of the Arts. He was the recipient of a Rhode Island Committee for the Humanities Grant, a Rockefeller Foundation Grant and is an Aspen Fellow at the Aspen Institute in Aspen, Colo. He was a visiting professor of the arts at the Rhode Island School of Design; the San Francisco Art Institute; the University of California, Los Angeles; the University of California, San Diego; the American Center, Paris, France; and the Universite de Paris VIII.