







Jeffrey Gibson: ONCE MORE WITH FEELING
Jeffrey Gibson: ONCE MORE WITH FEELING
June 1-July 22, 2023
Jessica Silverman is pleased to announce Jeffrey Gibson: ONCE MORE WITH FEELING, the artist’s first solo exhibition with the gallery, running from June 1 to July 22, 2023. This exhibition will premiere nine new collages, incorporating found objects and images, beadwork, and textiles into intricate arrangements. Concurrent to the exhibition is the solo museum exhibition Jeffrey Gibson: THE SPIRITS ARE LAUGHING at Aspen Art Museum on view through November 5, 2023, as well as the launch of An Indigenous Present, a book conceived and edited by the artist.
Drawing on his Cherokee and Choctaw heritage throughout his varied practice, Gibson has turned to collage as a medium towards both self-discovery and inquiry into consumption, empowerment, and non-Western modes of relating to one another. The artist collects offcuts, paper scraps, objects, and imagery and stores them over decades in his studio. He assembles these disparate items to create new works, relating forgotten materials to the fractured history of Native peoples.
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SELECTED WORKS

PRAYING FOR TIME, 2023
Cold press watercolor paper, studio ephemera, archival pigment prints on watercolor paper, acrylic paint, vintage beaded panel, vintage beaded belt buckle, vintage beaded medallion, glass beads, nylon thread and muslin
Paper size: 42 1/2 x 33 3/4 inches / 108 x 85.7 cm

ONCE MORE WITH FEELING, 2023
Cold press watercolor paper, studio ephemera, book clippings, early watercolors from artist's archive, acrylic paint, vintage beaded wrist watch, vintage beaded belt buckle, vintage hair clip, glass beads, nylon thread and muslin
Paper size: 46 1/2 x 32 1/2 inches / 118.1 x 82.5 cm

HOW BEAUTIFUL YOU ARE, 2023
Cold press watercolor paper, studio ephemera, archival pigment prints on cotton, acrylic paint, vintage beaded belt buckle, vintage beaded panel, vintage pinback button, glass beads, nylon thread and muslin
Paper size: 23 1/4 x 55 3/8 inches / 59.1 x 140.7 cm
In Gibson’s work, Burbank’s portraits of sitters White Swan and Christian Naiche are confronted by an intervention of beadwork and vibrant patterning. Between them, typographic block letters spell out the work’s title—borrowed from a George Michael song. Burbank, among other ethnographic artists of the time, believed Native Americans to be a “dying race,” which Gibson confronts with an incisive political demand against erasure.


I DON'T WANT TO LOSE YOUR LOVE, 2023
Cold press watercolor paper, studio ephemera, archival pigment prints on cotton, acrylic paint, two vintage beaded panels, vintage beaded belt buckle, vintage silver charm, glass beads, nylon thread and muslin
Paper size: 41 5/8 x 29 inches / 105.7 x 73.7 cm

PLASTIC MAN, 2023
Cold press watercolor paper, acrylic paint, Playmobil figures, vintage beaded panel, vintage beaded wallet, glass beads, nylon thread and muslin
Paper size: 41 3/4 x 29 1/2 inches / 106 x 74.9 cm
Exposing the extent to which Native representations have been circulated and appropriated by non-Native individuals, literally here as plastic figurines, Gibson pushes back against narratives that have been wielded to intentionally isolate or divide. Instead, his work brings materials back into dialogue with their origins, using this as a way to overcome the scars of colonialism and usher in a future of hope and joy.


I DREAMED I HELD YOU IN MY ARMS, 2023
Cold press watercolor paper, studio ephemera, archival pigment prints on cotton, acrylic paint, vintage pin back button, vintage beaded barrette, vintage beaded belt buckle, glass beads, nylon thread and muslin
Paper size: 31 3/4 x 26 1/2 inches / 80.6 x 67.3 cm

TIME WILL TELL, 2023
Cold press watercolor paper, studio ephemera, archival pigment prints on watercolor paper, acrylic paint, vintage beaded brooch, vintage beaded wristwatch, glass beads, nylon thread and muslin
Paper size: 23 1/4 x 18 3/4 inches / 59.1 x 47.6 cm

SKOOKUM, 2023
Cold press watercolor paper, studio ephemera, acrylic paint, vintage skookum doll, vintage beaded bag and shoe charm, vintage brass and enamel broach, vintage pinback button, glass beads, nylon thread and muslin
Paper size: 34 7/8 x 17 3/8 inches / 88.6 x 44.1 cm
I DREAMED I HELD YOU IN MY ARMS, 2023
Cold press watercolor paper, studio ephemera, archival pigment prints on cotton, acrylic paint, vintage pin back button, vintage beaded barrette, vintage beaded belt buckle, glass beads, nylon thread and muslin
Paper size: 31 3/4 x 26 1/2 inches / 80.6 x 67.3 cm
TIME WILL TELL, 2023
Cold press watercolor paper, studio ephemera, archival pigment prints on watercolor paper, acrylic paint, vintage beaded brooch, vintage beaded wristwatch, glass beads, nylon thread and muslin
Paper size: 23 1/4 x 18 3/4 inches / 59.1 x 47.6 cm
SKOOKUM, 2023
Cold press watercolor paper, studio ephemera, acrylic paint, vintage skookum doll, vintage beaded bag and shoe charm, vintage brass and enamel broach, vintage pinback button, glass beads, nylon thread and muslin
Paper size: 34 7/8 x 17 3/8 inches / 88.6 x 44.1 cm