Phil Tarley
Phil Tarley
Phil Tarley
Phil Tarley
Phil Tarley
Phil Tarley
Phil Tarley
Phil Tarley
Phil Tarley

 

Phil Tarley
Phil Tarley
Phil Tarley
Phil Tarley
Phil Tarley
Phil Tarley
Phil Tarley
Phil Tarley
Phil Tarley

 

Phil Tarley


Phil Tarley

Tel: 323-654-2817

Phil Tarley began studying photography at City College of San Francisco's Photography Laboratory, where he became intrigued by the kinetic power of cinematography. He studied creative writing and received his B.A. in Film and Drama from San Francisco State University. He is a Cinematography Fellow of The American Film Institute.

Phil has traced out a successful career as a fine art photographer, photo-journalist and portrait photographer with the ability of making those he shoots feel beautiful, relaxed, and uninhibited. “I love to shoot people and I like to make them look their best. After I pull the shots into Photo Shop, the first thing I do is retouch out any stray hair, or distracting imperfections, I guess I like to glamorize them a bit. Then I start to paint them up. I make their hair blue or their shadows orange. Every grouping of people gets a different look. I am very good with color.”

His photographs, videos and films have been featured in festivals and galleries around the world. His large format photographic series, Syntactic Assemblages of which some examples are shown on this page, has been shown at Twentieth, in Los Angeles and is represented in private and corporate collections.

Phil has recently produced a series of photos assemblages under the title of Masquerade. The series is done in high gloss ‘metallic’ prints which echo the distressed metallic treatment he employs to embed the images before turning them into large size assemblages. Masquerade presents the viewer with bold expressions of androgyny. Phil shoots his subjects on film and cross processes his cross dressers to make their colorful clothing and maquillage howl and scream. These images are slick and crazy with vibrant hues of acid greens, chartreuse, oranges and bottomless blues. Androgyny has never been done with such zaniness and campy fun.

His art works, papers, articles, films, videos and photographs are housed at The One Institute Archives and in The Legacy Collection at The University of Southern California. His video work was shown at the Guggenheim museum in 2000 and part of his oeuvre has been acquired by the permanent archives of the New York Public Library. His photography has been published in the Los Angeles Times and in other journals of significance.

Phil Tarley is also a writer of character-driven travel stories and many of these stories along with his photographs have been published in a diversity of magazines. He regularly writes about art and pop culture for the Wow Report.

A native New Yorker, Phil lived and worked abroad for many years. He now resides in Los Angeles.

SELECTED RECENT EXHIBITIONS

2011 A. Macy Gallery, Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles
2011 “Gem 2011” Los Angeles Art Association/Gallery 825 La Cienega Blvd, Los Angeles
2008 “New and Improved” LACDA (Los Angeles Center for Digital Art)
2007 Orange County Center for Contemporary Art “Self Perceptions” - Large Cibachromes (Group Show)
2007 Orange County Center for Contemporary Art Perpetual Indulgence –Large Cibachromes (Group Show)
2007.Pharmaka, Los Angeles,”Small Wonders” Cibachrome from Dreamscape series (Group Show)
2007 LACDA, Los Angeles Center for Digital Art Large Format Invitational Group Show
2002 Holly Hunt, Art Basel Miami Beach Group Show Dreamscapes -Large Format Cibachromes
2002 Twentieth Gallery, West Hollywood, California Syntactic Assemblages (Group Show)

 

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* None of the artworks may be copied or reproduced without the written permission of the Artist