’Philip Allen’s show was the strongest most convincing first solo exhibition I’ve seen since moving to New York more than a decade ago.’

“...All the great moderns seem to be accomplices in this rich and wonderful work. Art is how he looks at life.”

"Allen has worked hard to carve out a traversable space populated by all kinds of forms, from the mythical to the abstract. This is where I think Allen distinguishes himself. "

”Here were grandly conceived brilliantly executed symbolic/abstract paintings on themes connected with myth and vision, struggle and transcendence.”