Colleen Philippi is an extraordinary artist whose life experiences and travels have led to the uniqueness of her work. She has lived in Berlin and Paris and traveled throughout Europe and the former Soviet Union. Her artwork immediately captures the attention. A sense of mysticism comes from the artist’s highly creative and personal visual vocabulary; secrets, treasures, allegories, astronomy, poetry, memory, mysteries of the past, time and space... all have a presence and a place.
Over the years, these mixed media paintings have shifted from assemblages of found materials to assemblages of miniature Philippi oil paintings combined within structures of frames and doors that are intellectually reasoned, interactive and ingenious.

Anne Severson for BorderCrossings writes:

"Opening small wooden doors of Colleen Philippi’s mixed media assemblages is like looking into one’s own subconscious...small handles beckons us to open the little doors which reveal a hidden compartment of collaged multi -layered images, painted in oil and acrylic. Philippi takes visual literacy to a new level, she has been influenced by a number of writers and their works... ie; Marcel Proust’s notion that memory has its own reality..."