Artist R.L. Gibson

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Artist R.L. Gibson

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Gifts in Savannah.

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inheritance. thanks, but no thanks

I am proud to have both “Heartbreaker” & “Cut Throat” including in “The Gift You Never Wanted” exhibit at the Non-Fiction Gallery in Savannah, GA, sponsored by ArtRise Savannah.  Here’s a link to more info. (continues below)

The Gift You Never Wanted featuring work by Artist R.L. Gibson!

The reception is December 18th from 6 to 9 pm (1522 Bull Street, Savannah), and the show runs through January 4th.  Both “Heartbreaker” & “Cut Throat” are 11″ x 14″ digital-collaged mixed media, rendered as xerography on canvas and are available for sale through the Non-Fiction Gallery.  Price available on inquiry.

Learn more about the #DIKY series!

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RESULTS: Thankful

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The work of Artist R.L. Gibson is to appear in the Lunch Ticket Journal!… a wonderful way to start
the “Thankful” holidays!

“Dear R.L. Gibson,  It is with great pleasure and excitement that I welcome you into the Lunch Ticket Literary Family. We receive a number of strong submissions each viewing period and choose the works we feel strongly represent Lunch Ticket’s Mission, while showcasing great talent and skill. We are so very excited to reproduce your collection, ‘Do I Know You?‘ — A Xerography Series.”

Thanks for the love, Lunch Ticket –a literary & art journal from the MFA community at Antioch University Los Angeles. I am looking forward to seeing my work among these pages.  As an English major with a concentration in Composition, this artist is particularly pleased to be included.  Be sure to check out their current issue.

3…2…1… Three acceptance letters spanning two bodies of work in one week puts such a smile on my face.  Thanks again.

Happy Holidays!

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Thanks AAME!

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#DIKY in the PRESS

Thanks to Arts Alliance Mountain Empire for covering “Do I Know You?”, my exhibit currently up at The Balcony Gallery at The Emporium Center, home of the Arts & Culture Alliance of Greater Knoxville.  Click on the screen shot to read the coverage on A! Magazine! (continues below)

See the work of Artist R.L. Gibson in A! Magazine!

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#DIKY opens

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Do I Know You-- Xerography by Artist R.L. GibsonDo I…
Know You?

 

Apparently, I do…know you.  Thanks to all of you that came out to the opening of my show “Do I Know You?” at The Balcony Gallery at The Emporium Center on July 4th.

The breadth of common experience will simply take your breath away–or mine, as the case may be.  I met artists and critics.  I met those who appreciated the work and those that took issue with the unofficial tagline…

“Smile. Everybody dies.”

 

Do I Know You?-- Xerography by Artist R.L. GibsonConversations about life, and death, and all of the muddy stuff in the middle.  I was moved by all of the personal stories you shared and questions that you asked.

I was amazed by all of the thoughtful conversation.

 

I’ve opened a lot of shows, both as a gallery director and as an artist, but this one was definitely unique. I was amazed at the level of personal sharing and inquiry (vs. pseudo-academic yammering).  Thank you.

Changes are on the horizon & my newest series…is already incubating.

Stay tuned!

PRESS RELEASE: Arts & Culture Alliance Presents “Do I Know You?” by R.L. Gibson

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"Do I Know You" by Xerographist R.L. Gibson(06/18/2014-Knoxville) – The Arts & Culture Alliance is pleased to present “Do I Know You?”, a new series of Xerography on canvas with hand-drawn patterns by local artist R.L. Gibson. “Do I Know You?” uses the body as the ultimate betrayer by appropriating historical, formal portraiture of children and adults in the prime of their lives and juxtaposing those images with a forced consciousness of life-altering and/or terminal illness via layering of historical anatomical drawings. “In the span of one year, my father died in a tragic car accident due to a complication from diabetes, I had a surgery often reserved for women 20 years my senior, and I became the guardian for my 91 year-old grandmother in the end stages of dementia,” says Gibson. “My grandmother always asks, ‘Do I know you?’, and I began to realize this is what we all ask of ourselves throughout life and of our bodies when they inevitably fail us.” Gibson’s retro-influenced works with a tinge of humor will be displayed in the Balcony at the Emporium Center in downtown Knoxville from July 4-26, 2014, and an opening reception will take place as part of First Friday activities on July 4 from 5:00-9:00 PM.

R.L. Gibson is a nationally-shown artist, juror and editor that calls Gatlinburg, TN home along with her husband, photographer Jon Ives, and son Oscar.  Gibson works almost exclusively as a Xerographist, producing complicated layered compositions and then hand-transferring these images to a variety of substrates resulting in a unique monotype.  Xerography, as a medium, has neither a standard place in institutional art instruction nor a documented history. Gibson has spent years refining her hand-palated technique. The “skips” are not flaws but the unique result of the process.

Now I See by Xerographist R.L. GibsonIn addition to producing her own work and work in collaboration with other artists, Gibson and her husband also perform as the Appalachian singing duo the Pea Pickin’ Hearts. Gibson also serves as the Editor for ArtAndArtDeadlines.com, a fun and quirky, food-themed art blog that offers reviews of emerging artists, shows from great galleries, and FREE Art Deadlines and Calls for Entry as an artist’s resource. 

 The Emporium is free and open to the public. The exhibition hours for “Do I Know You?” are: Monday-Friday, 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM; Saturday, 11:00 AM – 3:00 PM; and (NEW!) Sundays, July 6 and July 20, 3:30-6:30 PM. Please note, the Emporium will be closed on Saturday, July 5.For more information, please contact the Arts & Culture Alliance at (865) 523-7543, or visit the Web site at www.knoxalliance.com.

Also on display in the Emporium during the same time frame:

Then & Now – A celebration of the ten-year anniversary of the Emporium Center’s reopening

Works by Jim Parris & Gwendolyn Kerney

Knox Heritage – 2014 Art & Architecture Tour Photographs

About the Arts & Culture Alliance
The Arts & Culture Alliance serves and supports a diverse community of artists, arts organizations, and cultural institutions. The Alliance receives financial support from the Tennessee Arts Commission (www.tn.gov/arts), the City of Knoxville (www.cityofknoxville.org), and First Tennessee Foundation (www.firsttennesseefoundation.com).

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Contact: Suzanne Cada
PO Box 2506
Knoxville, TN 37901
(865) 523-7543
sc@knoxalliance.com

www.knoxalliance.com

Pass the Bottle

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Inspiration for the DIKY series by Artist R.L. Gibson!Progress…

I am making progress on the “Do I Know You?” series.  I completed the first stage of a piece named Pass the Bottle last night.  And, while I can’t share it until closer to the July 4th show opening (at The Balcony Gallery at The Emporium Center in Knoxville, TN), I can show you one of my inspirations.

Meet Darryl
6 months
March 1949

 

He was a beautiful child, and as an adult he became the ever-popular sideshow exhibit known as Uncle Darryl.  He was a wonderfully and wildly-inappropriate adult influence on me by most measures, and absentee parent to his only child.  I thought the world was a much better place with him in it.  He helped me successfully make a huge decision at age 13 that probably saved my life.

He physically survived a tour in Vietnam and mentally endured the aftermath of physical injury, PTSD & chemical contaminants with the only tools at his disposal—-a doting mother & many a liquor bottle.

In April of 2006, a heart attack ended the suffering he endured from a decade-long battle with cirrhosis of the liver.  He was 56 years old.  He betrayed his body after his brain betrayed him.  I love & miss him.  I SO wish he were here to be a questionable influence on MY child.

The “Do I Know You?” series will feature an image saluting his battle with cirrhosis as well as an image in tribute his struggle with PTSD & the aftermath of Agent Orange.

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For your safety…

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Speak No Evil by Artist R.L. Gibson!WARNING…

It HAS been a very productive day for me both creatively and organizationally.  I had a dear friend make the casual suggestion to me that maybe I should start spending a mere 15 minutes a day organizing for my big solo show in July.  I have been completely stressed out about how far behind I am.   And my reaction to panic is often paralysis.  But the 15 minute method was a perfect way to jump start action without getting overwhelmed…and I am on my way.

But during my productive day of art and the business of art, I must have forgotten to turn off the bullseye button on my back.  As most of you know, I am generally patient, tolerant and optimistic.  Today, tested my ability to remain bullet proof.  So…

In an effort to be pro-active, I am publishing this short PSA warning
of what you should NEVER SAY to an ARTIST… for your safety.

PSA fm rlgibson.com

Please share with all of your friends!

INKED

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Sakura Pigma Micron PenThe
black
Thin Line…

I am not one to be drawn to traditional art supplies.  I don’t tend to go gaga over watercolor papers or a specific brand of oil pastels.  I usually just love the bizarre, non-traditional objects that I believe are destined to end up as art–like abandoned lunch trays, old silkscreen frames and Cracker Jack boxes.

My primary focus has been Xerography, and I’ve had little use for pens and pencils over the years. However, as I begin exploring new techniques for an upcoming series, I have to admit that I have fallen in love with the Sakura Pigma Micron pens.

They are a fairly inexpensive alternative to the technical pen.  I am particularly in love with the Micron 05.  You have to use a very light touch, which isn’t really my norm, but the delicate results are just unbelievable.  They are pigment based, don’t bleed or feather, and they are archival.

I’m inspired…

LARYNGITIS

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The unsuspecting face of Alzheimer'sHere we go
again

At the end of 2012 when I am normally planning for the coming year with anticipation, something broke.  My Dad died unexpectedly, and my creativity came to a screeching halt.  I seemed unable to find a voice.  I haven’t been able to find something to say for over 8 months now.

Today, while sitting in the doctor’s office hearing that I will need yet another surgery, I found my voice.  While sitting there listening to the doctor explain that my body has turned against me once again, I realized how pissed off I am to be sick…again.

Not all art comes from anger, but it can be a fantastic catalyst.  As I sat and marinated in my newest health debacle, I immediately began to feel guilty for being angry.  Everyone’s body turns on them eventually…that’s how we die.  I’m not alone.

I have generations of family whose bodies have abandoned them in the end.  And I also have the pictures of them before they knew what was coming.  My grandmother, pictured here at 36, had no idea that 63 years later her most common phrase would be, “Do I know you?”

Art is found in contrast.  I found my voice again, and it really isn’t pretty.

Stay tuned…