Bio

Philana Oliphant’s work includes drawings, sculpture, installations and prints. She combines complex, intricate mark-making and paper-cutting with elegant three-dimensional forms to evoke a meditative, physiological response: the rhythmic sound of graphite on Duralar or a blade cutting through Yupo. Her highly detailed, palimpsestic works explore time and memory, as well as environmental change, loss, and repetition.
Her work has appeared nationally for thirty years and is included in several permanent collections, including the Artist Printmaker Research Collection at Texas Tech University and the Wichita Falls Museum of Art. Recently her work her work exhibited in Visitation: Triptych, a group exhibition with James R. Pace and poet Aza Pace at the Longview Museum of Fine Arts, Longview, Texas, In Her Element, Art Center Waco, Waco Texas and was included in the Delta Triennial at the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts, Little Rock Arkansas.

Originally from the Texas panhandle, she now lives and works in East Texas, where she shares the forest and a studio with her husband and three rescue dogs.