Pat Phillips often creates works on paper, a delicate but enduring surface that he layers upon layers on with acrylic, pencil, airbrush and aerosol paint. He layers meaning, most importantly, pop-cultural iconography with political slogans and symbolism, on top of each other, like graffiti’d walls and comic-strip narration. Though he works on canvas as well, I’m always drawn to Pat’s work on paper, how he tests the durability of hte material, of the essence of the surface, with such powerful purpose. Can it stand it? Can we endure the layers of disparate beliefs in our society.