What prompted the shift from Gibson's near sculptural gestural expressions in paint to his current allegiance to geometric blocks of color ?
| Description | What prompted the shift from Gibson's near sculptural gestural expressions in paint to his current allegiance to geometric blocks of color ? |
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| About the Artist | (Born 1972, American) Jeffrey Gibson is an interdisciplinary artist. A member of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians and of Cherokee descent, Gibson grew up in major urban centers in the United States, Germany, and Korea. He received a bachelor of fine arts in painting from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1995 and a master of arts in painting at the Royal College of Art, London, in 1998. He has been awarded honorary doctorates from the Claremont Graduate University (2016) and the Institute of American Indian Arts (2023). He is currently an artist-in-residence at Bard College. Gibson has received many distinguished awards, including a Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters & Sculptors Grant (2012) and a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Fellowship Award (2019). Gibson also conceived and coedited the landmark volume An Indigenous Present (2023), which showcases diverse approaches to Indigenous concepts, forms, and media. Gibson's work is included in the permanent collections of the Denver Art Museum; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Museum of Modern Art, New York; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; Portland Art Museum; Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian; and Whitney Museum of American Art, among others. |
| Culture | American Indian, USA |
| Style | Contemporary |
| Medium | Acrylic paint on Arches paper |
| Image size | 21" height X 29 1/2" width |
| Paper size | 22 1/4" height X 30" width |
| Frame | Float mounted, Plexiglas, white washed wood molding |
| Frame size | 26 1/2" height X 34 1/2" width |
| Signed | "Jeffrey A Gibson" on verso in graphite |
| Date of creation | 2003 |
| Condition | Excellent, as appeared framed, glazed |
| Provenance | E Br |