Chip Neville, MFA - Artist/Musician
Biography
Chip Neville is a musician and new media artist working both traditional and electronic mediums. His work covers a diverse set of topics ranging from humor to politics with an emphasis on local environmental issues. Chip has worked for over almost 40 years as an Art Director, illustrator and graphic designer producing work for both public and private employers. Most notably he was art Director, and primary illustrator for more than twenty internationally published, award winning children’s books.
As an traditional, and new media artist Chip has worked with local art organizations such as the Salvador Dali Museum, and The Tampa Museum of Art. He has exhibited work at film festivals and galleries locally, and across the country showing experimental video, photography, animation, and video installation combined with performance. Chip is the owner of Chip Neville LLC, and Dolphin Phardt Records and in 2024 has an album of new music. He has written and performed music with the Tampa Artist and Writer's Group, Tampa Bay Composer’s forum, performed as a guitarist and singer in musical ensembles. He has also worked teaching guitar and music lessons privately and through the USF Community Music Division.
While active in the local music and arts community, Chip Neville has most recently been working as a college instructor. He specializes in illustration graphic design, animation, digital audio, video production, and visual theory. He is currently teaching digital drawing and Intro to DIgital Media at The University of Tampa. Previously he worked for the Art Institute of Tampa, The International Academy of Design and Technology (Tampa), and The University of South Florida (Tampa).
Artist’s Statement
The title bar of my web page says Artist/Musician. Truly this is the only way to describe my creative activities unless perhaps you were to add traditional/digital. That indeed would lay a better foundation for discussing my work. Early on my career spanned that transition from analogue systems to digital technology where all things converge. This gave a lot to the direction and medium of my creative pursuits.
The themes in my work tend mostly towards cultural critique, and advocacy for environmental issues through humor and allegory. I frequently synthesize my surroundings into reflections or commentary on my experiences.
