Jeffrey Gibson
Green Flash
Jeffrey Gibson (American, born 1972)
Green Flash, 2025
Acrylic on canvas
19 1/2 x 25 in. (49.5 x 63.5 cm)
Framed: 21 3/8 x 26 7/8 x 2 in. (54.3 x 68.3 x 5.1 cm)
Courtesy of Hauser & Wirth
Estimate: TBD
Green Flash, 2025, was created for the Norton Gala as a part of Gibson’s body of work from his first solo show with Hauser & Wirth, Paris in 2025. Known for his use of vibrant colors and references to art from his own Native American heritage, Gibson’s bold chromatic sensibility and emphasis on pattern and abstraction are clear. This work also highlights his use of color studies and the concept of “psycho-prismatic” — how color, light, and prisms combine to allow us to see multiple things at once. Gibson was the American representative to the Venice Biennale in 2024.
About the Artist
Jeffrey Gibson grew up in major urban centers in the United States, Germany, and Korea, where he absorbed the transgressive soundtrack of the 1980s through limited access to MTV. Gibson graduated from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1995 and received a Master of Arts in painting at the Royal College of Art, London, in 1998. While in Chicago, he also worked as a research assistant on the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) for the Field Museum, a formative experience that fostered an ongoing interest in questions of ownership and notions of cultural translation. Though trained as a painter, Gibson began incorporating materials and techniques that deliberately reference his heritage — such as raw hides and bead work — around 2010. A major turning point in his career, in 2012, he presented one becomes the other, his first solo exhibition of sculpture and video, at Participant Inc. Sculpture, moving image, and sound have since become integral to his practice. He is known for his immersive, multi-sensory installations that invoke and interweave disparate contexts, from faith-based spaces of communion to nightclubs.
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