{"id":3355,"date":"2012-04-03T16:49:28","date_gmt":"2012-04-03T23:49:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2012\/04\/people-take-one-look-at-this-car-and-they-want-to-race\/"},"modified":"2012-04-09T16:55:32","modified_gmt":"2012-04-09T23:55:32","slug":"people-take-one-look-at-this-car-and-they-want-to-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2012\/04\/03\/people-take-one-look-at-this-car-and-they-want-to-race\/","title":{"rendered":"“People take one look at this car and they want to race.”"},"content":{"rendered":"

from The New York Times<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

In Turbocharged Porsches, Artist Richard Phillips Finds a New Muse<\/h1>\n

By\u00a0TAMARA WARREN<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

\"RichardCourtesy of the artist<\/em><\/span>Richard Phillips<\/a>, with his 1992\u00a0Porsche<\/a>\u00a0965 on the set of a photo shoot last year for Elle magazine.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

On a balmy March afternoon in Manhattan, the artist\u00a0Richard Phillips<\/a>\u00a0was breaking in the refurbished engine on his 1992\u00a0Porsche<\/a>\u00a0965. Mr. Phillips, who is 6-foot-5, just missed scraping his head on the roofline of the white sports car.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor me, the 1992 965 Turbo represents the apex of Porsche design before the 993 came in,\u201d he said, referencing the internal designations of consecutive 911 models. \u201cThose are completely out-of-control cars. I love the car because there\u2019s no safety net in it. It\u2019s a great car to learn in.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mr. Phillips is making new paintings for a solo exhibition coming this fall at the Gagosian Gallery in New York. Having recently taken up photography and filmmaking, he has been able to channel his interest in sports cars into his career. For the December issue of Elle magazine, he shot an editorial spread that featured the fashion model and television host China Chow\u00a0posing with Mr. Phillips\u2019s white Porsche<\/a>\u00a0and another 1992 Porsche belonging to his friend, the curator Neville Wakefield. \u201cWe brought the cars to Studio 59 on the West Side, brought them up in the freight elevator and worked with China to create this set-up,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

In another experiment, he directed the short film \u201cSasha Grey,\u201d in which the former pornographic actress drives a\u00a0Lotus Evora<\/a>\u00a0along Mullholland Drive in Los Angeles. For the cover of Lotus magazine, he painted Ms. Grey in profile behind the wheel of the Evora. The cover was accompanied by a 16-page spread and an interview between Mr. Phillips and the author\u00a0James Frey<\/a>. Lotus loaned Mr. Phillips an Evora S to play with for the remainder of the year.<\/p>\n

[ click to read full article at NYTimes.com<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

from The New York Times In Turbocharged Porsches, Artist Richard Phillips Finds a New Muse By\u00a0TAMARA WARREN Courtesy of the artistRichard Phillips, with his 1992\u00a0Porsche\u00a0965 on the set of a photo shoot last year for Elle magazine. On a balmy March afternoon in Manhattan, the artist\u00a0Richard Phillips\u00a0was breaking in the refurbished engine on his 1992\u00a0Porsche\u00a0965. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}