Joel Daniel Phillips

born 1989

Joel Daniel Phillips was the third-place winner of the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery’s Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition in 2016. The winning portrait titled “Eugene #4” was of a gentleman he met on the corner of Sixth and Mission Streets in San Francisco, a location he lived at early on in his career. Between 2011 and 2017 Phillips drew more than 100 life-size portraits of his neighbors in San Francisco. For Phillips, the focus on fringe populations represents “a visual record of my striving to recognize unknown and unnoticed individuals through the tip of my pencil.” -Wikipedia page