Artist in Residence Jeffrey Gibson Unveils Large-Scale Work at New York’s Socrates Sculpture Park
Jeffrey Gibson, “Because Once You Enter My House It Becomes Our House,” 2020, Socrates Sculpture Park, New York. Photo by Scott Lynch, courtesy the artist
Gibson draws upon his Native American heritage as well as postwar abstractionism in this large-scale work, which measures 44 feet square by 21 feet high. Entitled Because Once You Enter My House It Becomes Our House, the multitiered structure refers to the earth-based architecture of the ancient metropolis of Cahokia, which was the largest city of the North American Indigenous Mississippian people at its height in the 13th century. “Even though it’s where my people are from, I had never heard of these structures being in Mississippi,” says Gibson. “That this history existed there is amazing and moving.” On view at New York’s Socrates Sculpture Park until March 2021.
Post Date: 08-18-2020
Post Date: 08-18-2020