MICHAEL GIBSON
2008
We are selling Mainly to Americans at
Artist Talks
Friday, April 18 at Noon: Michael Gibson discusses his installation We are selling mainly to Americans.
Saturday, April 18: exhibiting artist team Sincerely, John Head will conduct a workshop entitled Outside of the Box.
1 Night/3 New Exhibitions
Main & Left Galleries: Jack Whitten,Memorial Paintings
Gallery Four: Sincerely, John Head, Boxed Set
Round Gallery: Michael Gibson, We are selling mainly to Americans
Details on all of these exhibitions may be found below.
EXHIBITION
Opening, Friday, April 18 ; running through June 14, 2008
Artists' Reception, Friday, April 18, 7 - 9 pm
Main & Left Galleries - Jack Whitten, Memorial Paintings
Gallery Four - Sincerely, John Head, Boxed Set
Round Gallery - Michael Gibson, We are selling mainly to Americans
“Michael Gibson’s installation draws its provocative title from a recent conversation at Art Basel Miami Beach, the mega-fair that descends on southern Florida each December. Using hidden microphones to tape various and random dialogues, Gibson moved from the street outside the Miami convention facility towards the symbolic epicenter of art business at the fair: the booth of New York dealer Jeffrey Deitch. With careful editing, Gibson has created a spatial soundscape that documents the desire and spin that defines the contemporary art market, where collectors are often as influenced by what they hear as by what they see. Voices discussing photography and certain Los Angeles artists can be heard as bodies jostle for position.
The final utterance is by the flamboyant Deitch, who explains to an interested party, “We sell mainly to Americans.” Besides secretly taping for numerous hours, Gibson also took photographs at Art Basel, documenting key art world figures including Cay Sophie Rabinowitz, one of the co-directors of the fair.
Based in Atlanta, Gibson is well-known for abstract paintings which feature patterns of clustered or isolated forms that emit a halo of light or energy. These works have been influenced by the artist's interest in science, technology, and social space, so it should be no surprise to see him expand his practice beyond the studio. The artist has recently created large wall murals that examine camouflage and other elusive arrangements of form and color. For his project in the Round Gallery, Gibson brings together several of these investigations, offering a complex viewing and listening space.
Michael Gibson has exhibited his work at galleries including Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta; National Design Center, Atlanta; Artists Space and Newman Popiashvili Gallery, New York; and Artissima, Torino. ”
Stuart Horodner, curator of The Atlanta Contemporary Arts Center
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“We are selling mainly to Americans” is now part of the The Ersat konstahll Sound Archive.
And is part of the traveling exhibition, Art is not Mute. The exhibition started at HIT in Göteborg, Sweden and is now presented by:
the Uppsala Museum:
Art is not Mute, The Ersta Konsthall Sound Archive
During the exhibition period (April 4th – 13th) Uppsala Museum of Art will be presenting the sound archive Art is not mute.
Art is not mute was initiated by Ersta Konsthall during spring 2007.
The archive is accessible booth physically and digitally.
Uppsala konstmuseum
Slottet, Ingång E
752 37 Uppsala
Sweden
Michael Gibson, Cay Sophie Rabinowitz, 2007