Rachel Phillips

My idealizations.

Rachel Philips is the kind of painter I was always looking for.

Like Basquiat, I too was transfixed by Guernica as a young child, but mine was on my father's coffee mug. More intimate, I guess. More banal. The image of the painting definitely got to me, though. But so to did all the cartoons that Saturday Mornings used to offer: Rocky and Bullwinkle, Bug…