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Bubblegum Surrealism by Canadian Pop Surrealist Painter Stephen Gibb

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Bubblegum Surrealism

Dopamine – oil on panel, 2016


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Here we go round the prickly apple at 5 o’clock in the morning – Stephen Gibb, oil on panel, 2017

2017
hollow man, apples, humpty dumpty
maple-syrup
poutine
insane-bolt
frog-prince
pancake
crazy
green-face
moon
laughing-at-death
butter-tart
nanaimo
punch
bread-1
bread-2
bread-3_0
bread-4


2016
3 blind mice hold up clown, Humpty Dumpty steals the crown
orange
giant head screams at Humpty Dumpty
clock on a block of ice
chocolate chip cookie
dorito with cheesy smile
peanut butter on bread
donut
popsicle
Reese Peanut Butter Cup
dopamine monster consuming junk food
bubble


2015
If I blow your mind
auto pilot
Laugh!.jpg
bad_apple!.jpg
self destruction
head full of green goo, essence
melting-dali
porpoise, clock in the sky chases Humpty Dumpty
headless pinocchio, Humpty Dumpty rides praying mantis
candy
toxic personality
Magica Sexualis
spinning plates, Humpty Dumpty runs for his life
rat king
the-politician


2014
brick
Humpty Dumpty rides a chicken
crystal
eat
emperor
flamingmoon
gladys2
gummy
heavythoughts
humpty2
humptypoop
icarus
jung
log
nostone
security
skyface
sourdough
timemarches
timestress
unicorn
krankus_0
rockpaper_0


2013
angrycake
anvil
arrowfish
carrot
chocodoor
electriccheese
fakecake
handbasket
happypie
pez
pigman_0
soup
whitebread


2012
angerbear
boiledinoil
circus
envy
gluttony
godpiece
hellfreezes
kang
lambskin
legal
lustcow
manfrombangor
manfromcaphorn
manfromdunluce
manfromthesouth
oldpersonhabits-jpg
pickleboy-jpg
pridehorse
princeprints
slothgoat
timetested
walrus


2011
chance
chickenegg
colonel
dali-java
fate
fire-clock
freudelephant
godfather
infinite
layerpostits
reddodo
theatre
timedesicrates
white-stripes-music-video-art-show


2010
alfred
auntie-j
bettyc
crimson
dont-care-bear
dutchess
heman
hoarder
humptypoverty
ironman
tweedle2
twiggy
venus-envy
walrus
yonghy
ideathief


Bubblegum surrealism of Stephen Gibb


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Bubblegum Surrealism: Stephen Gibb – Artist Statement
(Or, at least a feeble attempt to excuse my behaviour to those present with good taste)
My artwork weaves an eclectic tapestry of cultural and social influences. At one moment it may make a
single-punch-line comment on pop culture while the next it may construct a complex and playful diorama
probing into the outer perimeters of human nature.
My work is often categorized as pop surrealism but I’d begrudgingly prefer to tag it as existential editorial
cartoon realism, just because it sounds more intelligent and funny at the same time. The work holds
a certain reverence and faithfulness to reality mimicry but leans away enough to fall in the shadow of the
“uncanny valley*”, the area where the mind is unsettled by what looks real enough but couldn’t possible
be. It is in this realm, theoretically, that the mind’s gamma waves are super-stimulated and brain activity
resembles fireworks. I resolve that this accounts for the broad reactions my work garners from observers,
that ranges from contemptuous dismissal to enthusiastic exuberance. We are all wired differently.
The medium is the method, which has been a faithful deployment of oil painting and traditional oil painting
techniques, such as glazing and the occasional dalliance into chiaroscuro. The richness achieved
by layers of thinned oil paint on MDF panels always adds an interesting luminous quality to the final
piece.
My direction as of late has been to devote more to composing on the panels rather than in pre-sketches.
I’m intrigued by the more spontaneous and gratifying results of ideas presenting themselves in the process
rather than in the planning, hence the falloff in the recent output of sketches. Often a core image or
concept dictates subliminally as to how the composition manifests itself.
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