Jeff Gibbons
With attenuated gestures and tenacious device, Jeff Gibbons presents works that mirror the intellectual forces that drive his studio practice. Earthen materials such as clay and found objects are divorced of their practical usage and become part of a resonant feedback loop as Gibbons reaches into a spiritual world he himself acknowledges may not exist. Getting to, and encountering the possible fissures of existence become paramount and with that, each work, whether it be sculpture, painting or video is the precise moment of an existential teeter-totter.
My work is a poetic translation of my own sense of being, which often feels intangible and longing for some form of release that has no name. Recurrent themes in my life become recurrent themes in my work. My sculptures, videos, paintings, writing, and music are imbued with references to coping, loss, childhood trauma, death and dying, love, sexuality, belief, and perception. I’m most often focused on weaving together ideas and objects until they seem to be born into something with a life of its own. I look for a balance between intent and chance, creating meaningful moments that are simultaneously thoughtful and playful. Anything and everything I encounter has the potential to become source material for my work—early memories of myself and strangers, a relic from the past, the temperature or dust in a room, the shirt off my back.
-Jeff Gibbons, 2023
Jeff Gibbons (b. Detroit, 1982) is an intermedia artist currently based in upstate New York. Gibbons’s work has been shown internationally in México, Japan, and across Europe. In the US, Gibbons has exhibited at venues such as the Nasher Sculpture Center, the Power Station, and The Goss-Michael Foundation. He has held artist residencies and fellowships at Cerámica Suro in Guadalajara, México, Achterhaus in Hamburg, Germany, and The Vermont Studio Center, among others. In 2018 he spoke about ice at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, D.C. In 2019, Gibbons was nominated for the prestigious Louis Comfort Tiffany award. Gibbons is a 2023-2024 resident fellow at The Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, MA.
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Conduit Gallery Exhibitions
2024 Provincetown Art Association & Museum, Provincetown, MA
2023 Site Gallery, Houston, TX
2022 The Silos, Houston Sculpture Month, Houston, TX
2022 Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, TX (Nasher Public, Katy Trail)
2022 Achterhaus, Hamburg, Germany (Residency)
2022 Site 131, Dallas, TX
2021 Conduit Gallery, Dallas, TX
2020 Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT (Residency)
2019 Power Station, Dallas, TX
2018 Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, TX
2018 Hanger J1, Marseille, France
2018 Dark Dirty Place, Kyle, TX
2017 The Power Station, Dallas, TX
2017 Museo de la Cuidad de Querétaro, Querétaro, Mexico
2017 Ceramica Suro, Guadalajara, Mexico (Artist in Residence)
2017 Austin Art Fair, OFG.XXX, Austin, TX
2015 The Epitome Institute, San Antonio, TX
2015 Hiroshima Art Center, Hiroshima, Japan
2015 galleryHOMELAND, Houston, TX, in collaboration with Greg Ruppe
2015 Reunion, Zurich, Switzerland
2015 Goss Michael Foundation, Dallas, TX
2014 Dallas Biennial, Dallas, TX
2013 Oliver Francis Gallery, Dallas, TX
2013 Berlin Becher Triennial, Berlin, Germany