Artwork Description
Jeffrey Gibson – POWER! POWER! POWER!
Dimensions: 36 x 35.25 x 2″ framed / 34 x 33″ paper
Year: 2020
Medium: woodblock and screenprint on paper
Edition: ed. 6/30
Jeffrey Gibson’s Power! Power! Power! Is a woodblock and screen print, framed. Printed in 2020, this print is signed and numbered 6/30, by the artist. “In POWER! POWER! POWER! Jeffrey Gibson proclaims and celebrates diversity and inclusivity, elevating a wide range of colors with the less than subtle exclusion of “white” from the list. Gibson often includes a wide spectrum of colors in his work and he smartly uses color as a conceptual element in addition to the more obvious visual effect. In his work rainbows and blends of colors resist binaries that inherently set things up in opposition to one another.” Gibson was the first Native American artist to represent the United States at the Venice Biennale, and his works have been the subject of major exhibitions at Site Santa Fe, Portland Art Museum, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Whitney Museum of American Art, among others. Jeffrey Gibson received the MacArthur Genius Award for his contributions to contemporary international art.
Jeffrey Gibson (b. 1972, Colorado) is a multidisciplinary artist working across sculpture, painting, installation, video art, and performance. He is a citizen of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians and is half Cherokee. In his work, Gibson combines Native American traditions and materials with visuals from Modernism to explore the connections between personal identity, culture, and history and how these elements influence each other. He grew up in Germany, South Korea, and England, and in each of these multicultural environments, he found friendships and connections in the music scenes. Following this influence, song lyrics and costumes are important elements in his work, along with objects associated with Indigenous culture and ceremonies such as leather, beadwork, drums, and metal jingles.
Gibson received his BFA from The Art Institute of Chicago and his MA from the Royal College of Art. He was also awarded an Honorary Doctorate from Claremont Graduate University in 2016. Gibson has received distinguished awards from the Joan Mitchell Foundation, National Museum of the American Indian (Smithsonian Institution), TED Foundation, and the Jerome Hill Foundation. He was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2019. Notable solo exhibitions of his work have been presented at the Brooklyn Art Museum, Times Square Arts, Blanton Museum of Art, Wellin Museum of Art, The New Museum, and Denver Art Museum. His work is included in the collections of the Smithsonian Institution, Whitney Museum of American Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Denver Art Museum, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, and the Museum of Modern Art in New York, among others. Jeffrey Gibson currently lives and works in Hudson, New York. -Tandem Press