His influences include geometry, op art, design, fashion and psychedelia, as well as punk rock and house music. “I didn’t want to copy anything that was in this museum because these patterns belonged to these people.” “I spent a lot of time in the collections,” he said. There he discovered the flourishing of native patterns in the museum’s archives. In Chicago, Gibson worked at the Field Museum, helping tribal delegations sort through the collections under the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act. But I grew up in a family with love, for music, for listening to pop music in a pickup truck.” “I grew up with an awareness of the traumatic history of indigenous people. “I used that phrase in a play in 2013,” Gibson said. The divisions in Gibson’s College “They Play Endless”, 2021 reflect quilt squares.
“When he came back (from traveling), he would bring me something art-related.”įamily members quilted and worked in beadwork, traditions regularly appear in the artist’s work. “We’ve moved a lot,” Gibson said in a phone interview in the Hudson River Valley north of New York. His father was a civil engineer whose career in government took him around the world. Viewers expecting a largely native influence often seem surprised at the inclusion of such diverse backgrounds in his work. The work reflects Gibson’s identification as an outsider through a celebration of nonconformity that embraces his Native American identity as well as his experiences in North Carolina, Korea, Germany and Chicago. The exhibition features paintings, sculptures, a film series, a live performance and a newly commissioned mural that will illuminate the building’s front lobby and main galleries. The renowned artist of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw/Cherokee is presenting his work in Jeffrey Gibson: The Body Electric at SITE Santa Fe through September 11 in a comprehensive survey. Jeffrey Gibson’s work swirls with explosions of colour, pattern, geometry and collage. “The Body Electric”, Jeffrey Gibson, 2022, Installation view at SITE Santa Fe.
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