It is of special note to know that the LUMA: Loyola University Museum of Art in Chicago will be showing a framed chart by Rev. Phillips in an exhibition featuring images dealing with the path to Heaven.

Through special and highly appreciated arrangement by the Lindsay Gallery.

Loyola University Museum of Art · 820 North Michigan Avenue, Chicago, IL 60611

312.915.7600 · luma@luc.edu

"Heaven+ Hell" exhibition February 10 – June 30, 2012

The themes of heaven, hell, and purgatory are frequently addressed in folk, outsider, and self-taught art in all media. The perspectives that these artists have taken range from illustrative, word-laden drawings to stylized, sculptural versions of figurative images that populate their conceptions of heaven and hell. Unlike academically trained artists, self-taught artists use the themes of heaven and hell not as concepts, but as visualizations that may be invented, drawn from popular media, or influenced by religious upbringing. The content may be benign or horrific, delusional or commentative on contemporary life, obsessive or minimal in design, but usually, on the face of the work, highly interpretative. The exhibition is co-organized with Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art.

This chart is now in the permanent collection of the Intuit Center for Intuitive Art in Chicago thanks to it being donated by a concerned collector who recently bought it.

"Wading Da Waters": ( acrylics on 24"X36" museum profile canvas). "This is a take from stories I heard as a child in the Phillips' household about baptisms being done in natural settings like rivers, ponds, or streams in the Georgia of Rev. Phillips' youth. Being raised in the home of a Biblical visionary artist resulted in a variety of sensibilities being passed on to me. I spent twelve years practicing Art Therapy. Some of those years were in the same community that was the home of the Progressive Pentecostal Mission Church in Bronzeville."

The dinner at Emaus is a story that many artists have visited through the evolution of art in the Western world. In consideration of his grandfather's groundbreaking Biblical visionary charts Onli felt compelled to interpret a few Biblical themes from a nontraditional perspective in his own artistic practice."BREAKING BREAD" by Turtel Onli presents Jesus being discovered by his hosts. Contact for interest: onli@sbcglobal.net

The following samples are presented for educational purposes to show how this scene was depicted over the years.

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Exhibition photos by Aki Antonia:

Pentecostal visions and the Bible were sources for Rev. Phillips. Demons, the Beast of the Sea, and the use of numerology where utilized by Rev. Phillips to explain the nexus by which souls could be saved.

This powerful chart and all of the amazing images on this blog are copyright 2008 Turtel Onli .

It is about six feet by five feet on oil cloth.

The Lindsay Gallery of Columbus Ohio will be featuring a few of the Rev. Phillips' Pentecostal Charts at the Artropolis event in Chicago April 25th to 28th, 2008 at the Merchandise Mart of Chicago IL. Look for the Intuit Show of Folks & Outsider Art. www.lindsaygallery.com

Rev. Samuel David Phillips was an ordained Pentecostal Pastor who was born in Georgia and settled in Chicago during the early part of the 20th century. He is a pioneer of creating images to express the Bible from a Pentecostal perspective. This point of view was fundamental, fresh, and insightful, yet new in the Christian world at that time. He used an visionary interdisciplinary approach by combining spoken word, the Bible, hand written words, and drawn images to reach people. These details show how Rev. Phillips would write Biblical references directly on the charts to link the image to passages in the Bible for purposes of study or meditation. In the photo above Rev. Phillips is leading a study session with a few Elders from the old Progressive Pentecostal Mission explaining an unfinished chart along with a few completed ones. The Mission was located in the traditional Bronzeveille area of Chicago during the 1940s until the mid 1960s.

Interested collectors, researchers, clergy, or students can contact Onli at onli@sbcglobal.net

You may click directly on the images to enlarge them.

Selected charts are available for study, meditation, or collecting via onli@sbcglobal.net

This display shows a photo of the Rev. Phillips and the actual Bibles he used in study and sermons. It was presented at a museum quality exhibition of his charts.

"The Root of Evil" circa 1950s was the featured chart of a powerful series of sermons dealing with money as the root of all evils among men.