Artists

Jeffrey Gibson

Press release

Jeffrey Gibson’s first solo exhibition with the gallery and in France will take place at Hauser & Wirth’s Parisian outpost this Autumn. Celebrating the breadth of Gibson’s output, the exhibition features three new groups of paintings, ranging from large to intimate in scale, alongside new works from Gibson’s series of celebrated punching bags, hanging cloaks, paintings on paper, canvas and beaded panel, as well as a new body of free-standing ceramic head sculptures. The title of the show, ‘This is dedicated to the one I love,’ is a pause for empathy and a meditation on how we act and make in times of crisis.

Over the past three decades, Gibson has developed a rich interdisciplinary practice that draws from American, Indigenous and queer histories as well as references to popular music, literature and art historical narratives. The artist’s distinctive visual language embraces a broad spectrum of cultural expressions and collaged identities in a way that is simultaneously intimate and radically expansive. The works on show are characterized by Gibson’s bold chromatic sensibility and emphasis on pattern and abstraction, whilst also drawing on histories of color studies and the concept of the psycho-prismatic, how color, light and prisms allow us to see multiple things at once.