Socrates Sculpture Park: Instagram Live Tour with Jeffrey Gibson, 7/16
[Image Description: In this head and shoulders portrait, artist Jeffrey Gibson is dressed in a green combat pattern shirt, a black t-shirt and a peaked cap, he has a graying beard, short hair and smiles directly at the camera, the background is white.]
Thursday, July 16 at 12pm. On Instagram @socratespark
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Friday, July 17 at 12pm. On Instagram @socratespark
Join Socrates Curator Jess Wilcox and artist Jeffrey Gibson on Instagram @socratespark for a live tour of Gibson’s new commission for the Park, Because Once You Enter My House It Becomes Our House.
Because Once You Enter My House It Becomes Our House presents Gibson’s vision for a monument to queer and Indigenous communities and cultures: a massive technicolor ziggurat bearing a series of assertive statements like “powerful because we’re different” and “respect Indigenous land.”
Gibson’s piece is part of Socrates’ three-part MONUMENTS NOW exhibition which seeks to examine the role of monuments in American society and present artist-realized monuments championing underrepresented peoples and marginalized histories.
About the Artist
Jeffrey Gibson is an interdisciplinary artist based in Hudson, New York. His artworks make reference to various aesthetic and material histories rooted in Indigenous cultures of the Americas, and in modern and contemporary subcultures. Gibson is a recipient of a 2019 MacArthur Foundation “Genius” grant.
Gibson’s previous exhibitions include, Jeffrey Gibson, LIKE A HAMMER, organized by the Denver Art Museum, and This Is The Day, organized by The Wellin Museum. Other notable solo exhibitions include: The Anthropophagic Effect (2019) The New Museum, New York; Look How Far We’ve Come! (2017), Haggerty Museum of Art, Milwaukee; Jeffrey Gibson: Speak to Me, (2017), Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center, Oklahoma City; and A Kind of Confession (2016), Savannah College of Art and Design Museum, Savannah.
You can find out more about Socrates Sculpture Park here.