Christoph Schmidberger on pHytonics

“pHy"¢ton"¢ics 'fi-tä-niks n [NE, fr. pH] 1 : the presentation of the smallest portion of a body of work that when excised may grow into an entity of its own 2 : an online forum for images, ideas, and a touch of iconoclasm by powerHouse Books.” The most recent of the weekly contemporary art additions to pHyotnics is the work of Christoph Schmidberger, who’s an Austrian-born artist now based in L.A.– we saw some of his work at NADA in Miami a couple of months ago, and were really impressed then. PowerHouse’s staff must have agreed with us, and why wouldn’t they? Christoph’s photo work was included in the Saatchi Gallery's Triumph of Painting and has held solo shows at Goff + Rosenthal, New York, Mark Moore Gallery, Los Angeles, The Essl Collection, Vienna, and Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum, Graz. His work has been reviewed or published in The Sunday Times, Booklet, The New Yorker, Art + Auction, Details, Art in America, and The Observer, and is in the collections of such institutions as The Museum of Fine Art, Boston, The LACMA, Los Angeles, The Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, and the Saatchi Collection, London. Schmidberger is represented in New York by Goff + Rosenthal. The list of accolades aside, you should really see this art for yourself.