News & Press

Jeff Gibbons at Sculpture Space, NY

Oct 2, 2024  

https://www.sculpturespace.org/longtermresidentselect

From the Sculpture Space website:

Detroit-born and New York State based artist Jeff Gibbons is the selected long-term resident for the 2024-25 season. Jeff's distinct approach to art, blending personal narrative with broader societal themes, makes him an exemplary figure to drive forward our commitment to fostering innovative and meaningful sculptural practices.

Tom Montan, the Executive Director of Sculpture Spaces, expressed his enthusiasm about Jeff's upcoming residency, stating, "Jeff embodies a strong sense of exploration and robust maker energy that is essential for the transformative experiences we aim to support through our program." Montan is particularly excited about the dynamic Jeff will bring to the community, anticipating that his unique artistic approach and commitment to process will resonate deeply within and beyond the Sculpture Spaces community.

Jeff will be in residence from October 2024 through June 2025, a period during which he will bridge several shorter-term residencies, providing continuity and a unique perspective that spans these diverse artistic cycles. His artistic journey from his blue-collar roots in Detroit to establishing a vibrant presence in the Dallas art scene has consistently used his background as a rich source of inspiration, making the ordinary extraordinary and the personal universal.

James Sullivan sculpture dedicated at Southern Methodist University

Oct 2, 2024  

The cast iron sculpture Archaic Figure / Rock Head (2023) was installed on the SMU campus in Dallas, Texas outside of the Meadows School of the Arts.

Annabel Daou billboard in Beirut organized by Temporary Art Platform

Oct 2, 2024  

https://togetherwetap.art/intervention/in-the-blink-of-an-eye/

In January 2024, Temporary Art Platform reached out to ten visual artists to create context-responsive, socially-engaged works that occupy the space of a billboard in Beirut, Lebanon – conceptually reflecting and subverting the commentary on the failure of its classic image: the advertisement. The billboard format requires the contemporary artist to address a wide general audience and engage unsuspecting passersby with great visual clarity. September 19 - October 2, 2024

Anthony Sonnenberg reviewed in the Austin Chronicle

The Austin Chronicle   |   Sep 11, 2024   |   by Cat McCarrey

https://www.austinchronicle.com/arts/2024-09-06/visual-arts-review-my-eyes-are-starving-for-beauty/

A review of the exhibition My Eyes Are Starving for Beauty on view at Big Medium, Austin, TX

Conduit Gallery in Arts + Culture Texas Magazine

Arts + Culture Texas Magazine   |   Aug 16, 2024   |   by Lindsey Wilson

http://artsandculturetx.com/connecting-art-to-hearts-dallas-contemporary-conduit-gallery-celebrates-40-years/

Connecting Art to Hearts: Dallas’ contemporary Conduit Gallery celebrates 40 years


Conduit Gallery 40th Anniversary Group Exhibition Reviewed in Glasstire

Glasstire   |   Aug 8, 2024   |   by Emma S. Ahmad

https://glasstire.com/2024/08/06/conduit-gallery-in-dallas-celebrates-40-years/

Anthony Sonnenberg at Big Medium, Austin, TX

Aug 7, 2024  

https://www.bigmedium.org/anthony-sonnenberg

on view: August 23 – October 5, 2024

My Eyes Are Starving for Beauty by Anthony Sonnenberg at Big Medium, Austin, TX

My Eyes Are Starving for Beauty is a site-specific installation and performance in celebration of the role that beauty and fantasy have played in queer self-empowerment for the last century and beyond. Using common materials, such as recycled clay, thrift store blankets, and scrap lumber, the artist, (a fat gay man) seeks to create a moment of pure fantasy, continuing to defy beauty standards and experience what it means and how it feels to be beautiful.


Stephen Lapthisophon at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego

Aug 1, 2024  

https://mcasd.org/about/press/major-group-exhibition-at-the-museum-of-contemporary-art-san-diego-explores-artistic-responses-to-sickness-health-and-medicine

(June 6, 2024 – La Jolla, California) The Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego is proud to announce For Dear Life: Art, Medicine, and Disability on view from September 19, 2024 to February 2, 2025. The exhibition is organized as part of PST ART: Art & Science Collide, an initiative of the Getty Foundation. Bolstered by the support and structure of the Getty Foundation, the special exhibition, organized by Senior Curator Jill Dawsey, Ph.D. and former Associate Curator Isabel Casso, is PST ART’s largest presentation by square footage this year.

Kathryn Kanjo, the David C. Copley Director and CEO at MCASD notes, “The artworks featured in For Dear Life bring compassion and criticality to the conversations surrounding health today. For Dear Life extends the museum’s legacy of presenting rigorous exhibitions that speak to societal consciousness through the art of our time.”

For Dear Life is the first survey of artistic responses to illness, disability, and the vulnerability of the body in American art since the 1960s. In recent years, the art world has seen an explosion of activity confronting issues of illness, disability, and forms of unruly embodiment more broadly. Tracing genealogies of art practices that have shaped contemporary currents, For Dear Life explores how this turn was preceded by the work of artists and activists beginning in the 1960s and 1970s.

Susie Phillips Video: Voices on Art-At the Tyler Museum of Art-Artist talk with Susie Phillips

Mar 7, 2024   |   by Art This Week & the Tyler Museum of Art

https://artthisweek.com/voa-at-the-tyler-museum-of-art-artist-talk-with-susie-phillips/

Voices on Art-Episode 96-Posted March 1, 2024

On February 25, Art This Week Productions filmed this artist talk by Susie Phillips at the Tyler Museum of Art. This talk was filmed in conjunction with the exhibition, The Way I See It: Works by Cindi Holt and Susie Phillips on view at the gallery December 15, 2023 – March 10, 2024.

Jeff Gibbons at Provincetown Art Association and Museum

Feb 3, 2024  

https://paam.org/fawc-fellows-at-paam/

January 12, 2024 — March 3, 2024

Curator: Christine McCarthy

Provincetown Art Association and Museum is pleased to present the 2023-24 Fine Arts Work Center Visual Fellows.

Since its creation 50 years ago, the Fine Arts Work Center Fellowship has become one of the leading residency programs in the world and has hosted more than 1,000 Fellows since 1968, nurturing an accomplished and far-reaching alumni network. The impact of the experience is best illustrated by the extensive list of awards Fellows have gone on to win, including the Guggenheim Fellowship, MacArthur Fellowship, Prix de Rome, Pulitzer Prize, and the Nobel Prize in Literature.

This year’s multi-disciplinary exhibition explores the layered experiences with which these artists are contending through sculpture, painting, film, photography, installation and printmaking. Featuring Miguel Braceli, Micha Patiniott, Rehab El Sadek, Jeff Gibbons, Oscar Morel, Tinja Ruusuvuori, Zeinab Shahidi Marnani, Agnes Walden, and Sasha Wortzel.