About Victoria Phillips

Victoria Rose Phillips | Artist Statement

My overall body of work is an exploration of my spiritual ethos. This exploration of non-tangible elements is grounded in a hope for a better life and a peace that surpasses all cognitive understanding. Through an investigation of transcendental qualities within my processes and metaphorical connections, I aim to delineate a sense of hope while providing an environment conducive to visceral experience.

The process of layering and removing marks through varied styles and materials creates a visual language through which I communicate spiritual allegories and personal narratives. For me, layering is an intimate process, serving as a metaphorical representation of life—not simply life in a general sense, but my own. Each layer informs the next while remaining essential to the whole. This process initially developed from a fascination with realism, which gradually evolved into expressionism informed by conceptual methodologies. As my experiences and understanding of the world continue to evolve, this process remains a means of examining the relationship between lived experience, spirituality, and the intangible elements that shape human understanding.

My work synthesizes elements of Romanticism, Modernism, and contemporary art, each informing my approach in distinct ways. The colorization and spiritual dimensions of Romanticism are reflected in my paintings. Modernist concepts emerge through the synergy of multiple substrates and fields of color. Contemporary influences are woven throughout my work through the use of nontraditional tools and conceptual strategies in which the spectator plays a role in the completion of the work. Through these intersections, my practice continues to explore how material, process, and perception can communicate ideas that extend beyond the tangible.

Artist Bio

Victoria Phillips (b. 1992, United States) is a multidisciplinary visual artist and educator based in Dalton, Georgia. Working across painting, ceramics, and mixed media, her practice explores themes of faith, memory, identity, loss, and hope. She earned a B.A. in Visual Arts from Lee University in Cleveland, Tennessee, in 2013, and an M.F.A. in Painting from the Savannah College of Art and Design in 2019. She also completed a Gifted Endorsement and Teaching Certification in Art Education through Piedmont University.

Phillips brings more than a decade of teaching experience across elementary, middle, and collegiate education. She has taught at the university level for six years, including four years as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Art at Lee University, and currently serves as a part-time Assistant Professor of Art at Kennesaw State University. Her teaching emphasizes creative problem-solving, visual communication, and connections between artistic practice and broader learning experiences. She has presented twice at the Georgia Art Education Association’s conference, sharing her instructional approaches with fellow art educators.

As an exhibiting artist, Phillips has participated in solo and group exhibitions throughout the United States and internationally. Her recent exhibitions include A Place in Time: Selections from An Abstract Narrative at the Creative Arts Guild in Dalton, Georgia, in 2026, and participation with MIDO Galería at Red Dot Miami during Miami Art Week in 2025. In 2019, she completed an artist residency in Skopelos, Greece, and in 2020, she was represented by VAN GOGH Art Gallery in an international exhibition in Monaco. Her work is held in private collections in the United States and abroad.

Since 2019, Phillips has maintained an independent artistic practice, exhibiting and selling her work online and through a studio in Atlanta, where she also welcomed visitors for open studio events and private appointments. In 2025, she expanded her practice by opening Victoria Phillips Studio & Gallery in Dalton, Georgia. The gallery extends her longstanding commitment to artistic practice, exhibitions, and creative learning, providing opportunities for artists to share their work and for people of varying backgrounds and experience levels to engage with art.

Victoria Phillips Studio & Gallery

Victoria Phillips Studio & Gallery was born out of both a personal vision and a shared need: to create a space where artists—especially women—can be seen, celebrated, and supported.

Although women make up nearly 70% of MFA graduates in the arts (National Endowment for the Arts, 2019), they remain vastly underrepresented in the professional art world. A 2019 study of 26 major U.S. museums found that only 13% of artists in their collections are women (PLOS ONE, 2019). On the global market, works by women account for just 2% of art sales, rising to only about 4% at major auctions (Artnet News & In Other Words, 2019).

These numbers reflect the imbalance that drives the mission behind this gallery. During the Covid-19 pandemic, I first opened my online gallery to other women artists, offering them a platform at a time when opportunities were scarce. That early step reinforced my conviction that representation matters, and it set the foundation for opening a physical gallery space.

Now located in the heart of Dalton, Georgia, Victoria Phillips Studio & Gallery functions as both my working studio and a public exhibition space. Here, I showcase my own evolving body of work while providing a platform for other artists—particularly women whose voices deserve to be amplified. Through exhibitions, collaborations, and community events, the gallery is dedicated to cultivating dialogue, connection, and visibility in the arts.

This is more than a gallery—it is a living space for creativity, equity, and community.