Selling Exhibition
1 July - 7 August 2022

Now extended through Aug 7

Phillips Southampton
1 Hampton Rd, Southampton, NY 11968

Gallery Hours
Monday – Sunday
11:00am – 6:00pm

Phillips X presents COSMIC SUMMER: Works by Kenny Scharf,  an experiential exhibition located at the Phillips Southampton Gallery. COSMIC SUMMER will features an array of Scharf’s works from his iconic, highly animated graffiti faces to the dynamic and thematic Cometa Festa D'Halley, 1986. The Southampton space will be transformed to embody the lively and colorful nature of Scharf. 

About Kenny Scharf (b.1958)
Describing himself as a ‘pop surrealist’, Kenny Scharf is a painter and installation artist whose distinctive graffiti art and visual vocabulary of colorful, lively globular figures have won him a legion of fans around the world. Born in Los Angeles in 1958 before moving to New York to attend Manhattan’s School of Visual Arts, Scharf came to be known alongside his contemporaries Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat, and his mentor Andy Warhol, associated with the art scene in 1980s downtown New York.

Sales Inquires

Exhibition Sales Southampton
ExhibitionSalesSH@phillips.com 

Phillips X is a dynamic selling exhibition platform operated by the Private Sales department at Phillips. Presenting highly curated selling exhibitions on an international scale to Phillips’ collecting community around the globe, Phillips X highlights notable artists and creators of the 20th and 21st centuries, creating new and important dialogues in the art historical canon.

Contact
Cristina Tafuri
Global Exhibition Project Manager, Private Sales
ctafuri@phillips.com