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Hashimoto Contemporary is pleased to present Joel Daniel Phillips' latest body of work. Elaborating on his Killing the Negative series, the Tulsa-based artist's debut Los Angeles solo exhibition expands on his signature charcoal and graphite drawings with his first publicly available oil paintings.

Grappling with race, class, the environment and stratified socio-economic issues, Killing the Negative is a meditative response to a selection of Government censored photographs commissioned by the Farm Security Administration (FSA) during the Great Depression. Phillip’s work centers …