ABOUT

Phantasm Gallery began as an art, and personal, exposition project in 2015. It was at that time that I began taking screenshots of artwork I saw on Instagram: work that I found aesthetically pleasing, inspiring, accurate of depiction, wildly inventive, or any other quality that appealed to me.

By 2017, an urge to share this collection of art that I amassed in my phone had grown strong, as well as a desire for personal anonymity on social media. I receded from sustaining an active presence on my public accounts bearing my name, but, despite this social distancing, I still had a desire to share myself personally. This confluence bore Phantasm—a display of myself, not through my own image, but through art.

Our Mission

In these times of social media, art is all too often appropriated, altered, and devalued. Phantasm Gallery believes that respect for art and artist not only extends to crediting artists and sharing their work without alteration, but also paying artists a gratuity for impermissibly sharing their artwork. That’s why we created a subsidy for our Fair Share Initiative in 2020, and, since then, have been paying artists around the world whose work we feature each month on our website, and Instagram account.

Curating Philosophy

For us, curating is more than just a scattershot selection of artwork displayed with no motive. Our process begins with the selection of a linguistic muse—an articulated thought, quote, or excerpt from a book or article. We then curate visual artwork for the written muse accordingly, and feature them together. What (we hope) results is an enhancement and reinforcement of one another, lingual and visual: a more meaningful association with each part of the whole, because the combination of the two is purposeful and coordinated in a thoughtful manner.