Roberts Projects is thrilled to announce its participation in Art Basel Miami Beach 2018 with the solo presentation Jeffrey Gibson: PEOPLE LIKE US. This new body of diptych paintings and sculpture connects graphic texts made from glass beads with brilliantly colored painted geometric abstractions on canvas and irregularly shaped rawhide panels. Gibson sees these works as calls for solidarity for PEOPLE LIKE US - the title of the new figure made specifically for this presentation.
Jeffrey Gibson (b. 1972) grew up in major urban centers in the United States, Germany, Korea, England and elsewhere. He is a member of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians and half Cherokee. This unique combination of global cultural influences converge in his multi-disciplinary practice of more than a decade since the completion of his Master of Arts degree from The Royal College of Art, London in 1998 and his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1995. Drawing influence from popular music, fashion, literature, cultural and critical theory, and his own individual heritage, Gibson's work recontextualizes the familiar to offer a succinct commentary on cultural hybridity and the assimilation of modernist artistic strategies within contemporary art.
Gibson's artworks are represented in the permanent collections of many major art museums, including the Whitney Museum of American Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Smithsonian's National Museum of The American Indian, National Gallery of Canada, Nasher Museum of Art, Nerman Museum, Newark Museum of Art, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Seattle Art Museum, Speed Museum, and Denver Art Museum.
The Denver Art Museum organized and mounted Jeffrey Gibson: LIKE A HAMMER, a traveling mid-career survey in May 2018. The exhibition will travel to The Mississippi Museum of Contemporary Art, Jackson, MS; Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA; and Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison. Concurrently, Jeffrey Gibson: This is the Day was organized by The Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton College, Clinton, NY. This exhibition will travel to The Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX, in 2019.
Upcoming projects and exhibitions include The New Museum, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, MASS MoCA, Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, the Heard Museum, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver. Recent museum solo exhibitions include The Savannah College of Art Design Museum, The National Academy Museum in New York, The Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, and the Cornell Museum of Fine Art. Gibson has received grants and awards from The Creative Capital Foundation, The Joan Mitchell Foundation, Art Matters, and Harpo Foundation, is a 2012 TED Foundation Fellow, and is a Visiting Artist at Bard College.
