Join us this First Friday, August 6th, for the opening reception of Cultivate, a solo exhibition by Toledo-based artist, Phybr, who has spent the last month of July here as an Artist-In-Residence. Throughout his time as a resident, Phybr has been sowing seeds of new growth, propagating new techniques, and grafting current and past styles together which culminate in this cohesive and captivating cultivation of new work.

Phybr’s recognizable style has grown out of his passions for design, illustration, and color theory. By blending these formal elements together with natural subjects such as various mixings of plant life and portraiture he harnesses not only the intimate and emotional connection shared between viewer and painting, but also the fleeting essence of life itself because of the predominant use of spray paint and street art influences. His paintings seem to emit a vitalness that strike ever deeper chords with anyone who encounters them