Harold E. Philbrook
Interdisciplinary Artist
Harold’s performances transcend the stage. With an interdisciplinary approach
to constructing site-specific, time-based works, through sculpture, performance,
installation, movement, drawing, and video, he choreographs environments as a
vehicle to blur the lines between performer and viewer, and art and life. Where philosophy and composition meet, the ephemeral nature of these experiences
separate the poetic from the mundane.
He received a BFA degree in Graphic Design (’95) and Sculpture ('01) from Maine College of Art. over the past 20 years, Harold’s artwork has been shown in
exhibitions and on stages across New England and Michigan. He’s spent years teaching, choreographing, and performing with various studios and his works were featured in The Boston Globe, The Portland Press Herald, and Casco Bay Weekly.
Most recently, he received an honorable mention by The Portland Press Herald, for
his addition to the group show The Rumpus! at The Engine, in Biddeford, Maine.
Harold was also chosen by DownEast Magazine's annual Art of Giving fundraiser,
where four artists were selected to show their work for one exclusive evening to
guests of Down East and Northbridge.
Harold currently lives in southern Maine, with his two boys, and continues to
celebrate the landscape, the people, and family.
Artist Statement
We've created these works together.
You've impacted my life through the deepest fibers of my being and my
psyche produces vibrations that call out to be materialized.
This body of work symbolizes this interrelatedness of all things- as an
existential mapping of the mind/body/spirit through architectural landscapes.
Life is beautiful. Life is suffering.
How we move through the world is soft poetry, whisperings of the continuity
between being human and sharing this moment. The slippage of time is so
profoundly beautiful and fleeting, Each piece archives a chapter of how quickly
things shift, while honoring the glue that binds us.
"We are a book of stories, not a novel.
Our collective consciousness is expanding as an emotional intelligence,
This emotional maturity tells us to experience anything and everything,
but hold the place to truly feel the effects." Brianna Wiest