SAGE Studio consistently produces some of the most interesting exhibitions in Austin, highlighting the work of adult artists with disabilities. This Saturday, Oklahoma-based George E. Phillips’ narrative drawings grace the space, telling the story of his love for “Linda E. Dick,” an amalgam of two women from the artist’s youth who together form a muse. In this show, Phillips crafts large totems using pencil, crayon, and masking tape that depict his and Linda’s dream wedding and farmhouse, which he plans to rebuild using the John Deere trucks and tools that are a through line in his work. As a deaf artist, hand motions and sign language figure heavily in his work as well. At 77 years old, Phillips’ exhibition is a rich retrospective of a lifetime of drawing the artist’s interior world. – Lina Fisher
