Paige Phillips

Paige Phillips is an interdisciplinary artist and curator of public art, originally from Matewan, West Virginia. The daughter of a coal miner, she draws on her Appalachian roots to center working-class perspectives in her practice.

Opinion

How to Extract the Story of Appalachia

Fia Backström's Queens Museum exhibition replaces beauty and complexity with a visual and narrative language that reduces the region to a site of suffering.