PHILIP GLADSTONE 1963 Philadelphia, EU GRAPHITE DRAWING

 Philip Gladstone is an artist best known for his story-telling, evocative — and sometimes provocative — tableaux featuring an ensemble cast of nude men. Gladstone’s diverse body of work can be understood as an ongoing pursuit of a profoundly personal, allegorical exercise in self-portraiture — a collection of loosely related, colorful fables populated by figures the artist creates to stand in for himself, 'characters' invented to express a state of mind, to tease a multi-layered, subjective story, or to attempt to conjure a vision of a universally shared experience for the artist’s audience. Born in Philadelphia, Gladstone now lives and works in the Maine Highlands, creating his pictures in a antique barn adjacent to his home that the artist renovated to serve as a studio. He launched his successful career as a fine artist in 2004, following a nearly twenty-year stint as the owner and operator of a retail shop and gallery. Passionately independent and fiercely private by nature, the artist’s original works and limited edition prints are available exclusively through this website, directly from the artist. www.aglutinart.blogspot.com