BIO

Phillip Graffham is a self-taught artist living and working in the Los Angeles area. For over 25 years he has studied the poetic arrangement of objects into art, creating hundreds of intricate works combining found objects, beads, buttons, bones, hair, tiny toys, charms and trinkets. Graffham is a co-founder of the now thriving Pomona Arts Colony in Los Angeles County. He was represented by Billy Shire’s La Luz de Jesus Gallery in Hollywood for many years where he exhibited and sold hundreds of trendsetting art objects and jewelry designs. Graffham’s art objects have been pictured in Metropolitan Home Magazine, the feature film “Under Investigation” and collected by Diane Keaton, Billy Shire and The House of Blues to name a few. In 1999, Graffham was commissioned to do a sculpture for Walt Disney Imagineering to be permanently installed and exhibited at the Disney California Adventures Park in Anaheim. He has organized and curated dozens of art exhibitions throughout southern California, owned and operated an art gallery in the Pomona Arts Colony called Pipperdoodles, and worked for Warner Bros Art Gallery Design for many years. Graffham has shown at many galleries around California, including Van Eaton Galleries in Los Angeles, Bunny Gunner in Pomona, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions Store, The Claremont Graduate University, Judy Kameon’s “Livestock”, Soap Plant & Zulu in Hollywood, Gallery 57 in Fullerton Ca., Inshallah Gallery in Los Angeles, The Museum of History and Art of Ontario, The Latino Art Museum and The Da Center for The Arts in Pomona. Graffham lives in Los Angeles County, Ca with his wife and son and is currently Operations Manager for Van Eaton Publishing Group in Sherman Oaks, Ca.