DANIEL GIBSON

When nothing makes sense, there is the earth and the sky. A site for the body and a plane for the mind and the soul. While gravity tethers us to the first, it is often that we look up in search of the imagined – a dream, a memory of the dead, an answer to what’s next – but, generally, our gaze rests there where the two meet: At the horizon. It is from this anchor point that Big Sky, Daniel Gibson’s third solo exhibition with the gallery, spins off into a push and pull between the earthly and heavenly realms in a series of new sublime landscape paintings inspired by the high desert of the American Southwest. By way of a threefold use of the landscape - genre - as a carrier of personal narratives, art historical dialogue, and, in this body of work, as allegory with deeper conceptual underpinnings –Gibson ultimately grasps at the ontological and ephemeral passage of human life in relation to nature’s regenerative cycle.