John Gibson “New Works”

Gerald Peters Gallery, New York

poster for John Gibson “New Works”
[Image: John Gibson "Home" (2018) oil on collaged wood panel, 13 x 12 in.]

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John Gibson: New Works is comprised of recent oil paintings and works on paper. The exhibition explores the fundamental tension between representation and reality that remains at the heard of Gibson’s paintings.

As Gibson explains: “Although I have painted balls exclusively for over 25 years, I don’t really care that much about them. Of course I’m attracted to them just like anybody else. I admire their endlessness and mystery. I love the way they can stand in for all sorts of unknowns and even the way a circle, or a shape of some kind, sits on the surface of a ball and bends into space. But I don’t paint balls because of any of that, or because I think they have some significance or ‘meaning.’ I paint balls because they are the most simple and fundamentally different thing from the flat surface of a painting that I can tink of. I like that elegant opposition of forces. Every day I try to wring a ‘real’ ball out of a flat surface and every day I can’t quite do it. In the good paintings there is some residue of that effort and in the best paintings there is a lot. In many ways then the subject of these paintings - at least for me - is just that residue: a wish for something that cannot be had; a version of a ball overlaid with desire.”

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Schedule

from March 28, 2018 to April 27, 2018

Opening Reception on 2018-03-28 from 17:00 to 20:00

Artist(s)

John Gibson

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