Jeff Gibson "Mirrorsteria"
Stephan Stoyanov Gallery
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Since the mid-1980s, Gibson’s artwork has straddled many forms and contexts—painting, photography, video, posters, banners, and books for gallery and public spaces. Similarly, it has drawn on a variety of cultural fields and art-historical precedents—mass media, advertising, and graphic design via the critical and presentational strategies of Dada, Pop, Minimalism, and Conceptualism. An aesthetic and intellectual study in contrast and contingency, Gibson’s practice is fundamentally inclusive and combinatory.
For this exhibition the artist presents an installation consisting of two photographic murals—one abstract, one representational, both overlaid with upside-down text—adhered directly to opposing walls of the gallery. Floor-bound mirrors abut the walls, doubling the imagery in an illusory subterranean space and correcting the inverted typography. Assuming the tone and language of quack psychology, the texts describe certain behavioral tendencies that bind the individual to the collective. In concert with the imagery, they invite reflection on the psychosocial dimension of in/voluntary imitation.
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Schedule
from April 05, 2009 to May 03, 2009
Opening Reception on 2009-04-05 from 18:00 to 20:00