JEFFREY GIBSON
2015-10-26Jeffrey Gibson (b. 1972), who is half Choctaw and half Cherokee, creates sculptures and paintings that intermingle more traditional Native American art with contemporary art and culture. His works are irrefutable evidence that such taxonomies can sit comfortably together, resulting in amalgams of his vast personal interests and unique biography that demonstrate the ease of inclusion.
Almost all the works in the show contain text that are charged with personal meaning, elaborately embroidered in beadwork and testament that design can have content. Gibson appropriates phrases from popular song lyrics, social movements and has recently incorporated his own writings. His use of language thus parallels that of Sister Corita Kent, and like her Gibson has begun to arrange words in scattered and atypical formatting. Sentences are no longer a simple left to right read; they become fragments of a thought floating in one’s mind.
Opposite – I PUT A SPELL ON YOU, 2015
Exhibition runs through to December 13th, 2015
Marc Straus
299 Grand Street
New York
NY 10002
