#Jeffrey Gibson

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Cannupa Hanska Luger, New Myth, Future Technologies, 2021

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Teresa Baker, Hidatsa Red, 2022

Raven Chacon, For Zitkala Sa Series, 2019

Caroline Monnet, Echoes from a near future, 2022

Marie Watt, Skywalker/Skyscraper (Calling Sky World), 2021

Anna Tsouhlarakis, The Native Guide Project, 2019

Meryl McMaster, Harbourage for a Song, 2019

Marie Watt, Companion Species (Calling Back, Calling Forward), 2021

Staff Pick of the Week

An Indigenous Present proposes that a book can be a space for community engagement through the transcultural gathering of more than sixty contemporary Indigenous and Native artists. Published by BIG NDN Press and Delmonico Books in 2023, An Indigenous Present was conceived of and edited by Mississippi Choctaw and Cherokee artist Jeffrey Gibson (b. 1972) over the course of nearly two decades. 

In Gibson’s own words, “An Indigenous Present celebrates the work of visual artists, musicians, poets, choreographers, designers, filmmakers, performance artists, architects, collectives, and writers whose work offers fresh starting lines for Native and Indigenous art. But the book does not attempt comprehensiveness. Rather, those included here are makers I admire, have collaborated with or been inspired by, and who’ve challenged my thinking. . . . These artists and what they make will guide us to Indigenous futurities authored by us in unabashedly Indigenous ways.”  

An Indigenous Present features over 400 pages of color photographs, poetry, essays, and interviews resulting in a stunning visual experience for readers and a shift towards more inclusive art systems. The front cover art shown here is by Canadian artist Caroline Monnet entitled Indigenous Represent. 

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– Jenna, Special Collections Graduate Intern 

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“I DON’T BELONG TO YOU – YOU DON’T BELONG TO ME” is a text sculpture by Jeffrey Gibson.

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Jeffrey Gibson

Gender: Male

Sexuality: Gay / Queer

DOB: 31 March 1972

Ethnicity: Native American (Mississippi Choctaw, Cherokee)

Occupation: Artist, sculptor

Note: In 2024, Gibson will represent the United States at the Venice Biennale, where he will be the first indigenous artist to have a solo exhibition in the American pavilion.

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Jeffrey Gibson is first Indigenous artist with U.S. solo show at Venice Biennale : NPR

The U.S. State Department has selected an Indigenous artist to represent the country at the 2024 Venice Biennale.

Jeffrey Gibson, a member of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians, will be the first such artist to have a solo exhibition in the U.S. Pavilion at the prestigious international arts event.

That's according to a statement this week from the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, the government body responsible for co-curating the U.S. Pavilion, alongside Oregon's Portland Art Museum and SITE Santa Fe in New Mexico.

The State Department's records of the U.S. Pavilion exhibitions date back to when it was built, in 1930.

Although Indigenous artists have shown work more broadly in Venice over the years, the last time Indigenous artists appeared in the U.S. Pavilion at the Biennale was in 1932 — and that was in a group setting, as part of a mostly Eurocentric exhibition devoted to depictions of the American West.  ...

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Exterior view of the space in which to place me (Jeffrey Gibson’s exhibition for the United States Pavilion, 60th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia), 20 April – 24 November 2024.

Forecourt sculpture: the space in which to place me (2024). Photograph by Timothy Schenck

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Venezia, maggio 2024 “Foreigners Everywhere”, Biennale d’Arte.

Jeffrey Gibson è il nativo americano incaricato di esporre nel padiglione USA della Biennale di Venezia. Una scelta, oltre che corretta da un punto di vista etico-politico, in perfetta sintonia con il titolo dell’esposizione ovvero “Foreigners Anywhere”. Da un punto di vista artistico una rivisitazione non scontata della cultura visiva indigena, di grande impatto e di grande poesia.

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Jeffrey Gibson | © RBG Kew | Jeff Eden | Financial Times

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Jeffrey Gibson, Raven, 2016 Acrylic on canvas 108 x 84 in. Seen at Marcus Straus Gallery booth, Untitled Art Fair, Miami 2023

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“The anthropologist’s encapsulating gaze ignores the fact that, for Indigenous communities, tradition is not an immutable set of truths handed down by revelation, but a set of ever evolving social practices whose continuity cannot be repaired by preservation—only elaborated through struggle, and finally achieved under conditions of genuine self-determination.”

“The Violence Inherent: Native Videographers Shoot Back” by Adam and Zack Khalil, from An Indigenous Present, edited by Jeffrey Gibson and Jenelle Porter (2023)

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Art by Marcel Dzama (Photo: Kris Graves)

How New York City’s Subway Stations Have Transformed Into an Underground Art Gallery

 400 permanent artworks to adorn the stations. A celebration of these ground-breaking projects, Contemporary Art Underground: New York MTA Arts & Design highlights more than 100 artworks completed between 2015 and 2023 that embody the spirit, vibrancy, and diversity of New York.

Art by Kiki Smith (Photo: Anthony Verde)

Art by Jeffrey Gibson (Photo: Etienne Frossard)

Art by Damien Davis (Photo: Etienne Frossard)

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Artist Jeffrey Gibson to Represent US at Venice Biennale

The announcement yesterday that Jeffrey Gibson will represent the United States at the 2024 Venice Biennale marks a historic moment. A member of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians with Cherokee ancestral roots, Gibson will be the first Indigenous artist to have a solo exhibition for the US pavilion at the international contemporary art exhibition. Running since 1895, the show attracts hundreds of thousands of visitors to the eastern edge of the Italian city each year. 

In 1932, Hopi artist Fred Kabotie also represented the US in a group exhibition at the Biennale. Recognized for his paintings of Pueblo ceremonial dances in Santa Fe during the 1910s, his artwork explored themes of displacement and memory during a period widely remembered for federal assimilation policies targeting Indigenous communities in the US.

Raised in the US, Korea, and Germany and based in New York, Gibson draws inspiration from an array of sources including pop culture and music, literature, his familial heritage, and his international upbringing. In works such as “People Like Us” (2019), one of his sculptural garments that are suspended from the ceiling using tipi poles, Gibson weaves a multilayered exploration of culture, history, and identity, incorporating traditional Indigenous beading, weaving, and metalwork techniques with contemporary aesthetics.

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Jeffrey Gibson

Chief Pretty Eagle,2020

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Jeffrey Gibson, American History (JB), 2015

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Jeffrey Gibson’s Ecstatically Colorful Sculptures Fuse Modernist Aesthetics and Indigenous Traditions “The land is always speaking and has memory,” Jeffrey Gibson says, as he describes his work in an audio guide for his solo exhibition The Body Electric at SITE Santa Fe last year. “I am frustrated to see how many people continue to abuse the land, take from it, never thank the land, or care for it. Or allow it to rest. So I ask the question: Are you listening? More Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $5 per month. The article Jeffrey Gibson’s Ecstatically Colorful Sculptures Fuse Modernist Aesthetics and Indigenous Traditions appeared first on Colossal. https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2023/03/jeffrey-gibson-sculpture/

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Jeffrey Gibson - A time for change (2020)