Category Archives: Canadian painter
Froze—by Canadian artist Stephen Gibb, 36″ x 36″, oil on panel, 2020
FROZE by Canadian painter Stephen Gibb
The fragile balance of life is often illuminated by taking an alternate perspective, and just as often it is obscured by ambiguity.
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2020 Paintings 2020 Return to main gallery 2015 paintings Stephen Gibb – Artist Statement My artwork weaves an eclectic tapestry of cultural and social influences. At one moment it may make a single-punch-line commentary on pop culture, while the next it may construct a complex and playful panorama probing into the outer perimeters of human […]
Surreal artist performs alchemy
The Canadian Pop Surrealism of Stephen Gibb and the theme of magic...
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Pop Surrealism and Lowbrow
Pop Surrealism and Lowbrow Pop Surrealism has a broad range of influences, a reverence for art history, an unsettling presence and a wicked sense of humour. One thing that unites the pop surrealist community is their comfortable and insatiable relationship with weirdness. If describing in words what is and what isn’t pop surrealism, one only […]
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Contemporary Art and the Death of Contemplation
Contemporary art has been hit hard by our inability to focus, meditate or even take five minutes alone with a painting. With my painting Death of Contemplation, the title comes from my lament for a time before incessant distraction. When you could fall into a deep, thoughtful meditation and slowly mull over an idea until […]
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Contemporary artist takes a look at loss
Contemporary artist is lost in the wilderness… Contemporary artist Stephen Gibb has offered a mysterious painting for an uncertain future society. Entitled “Pictorial Puzzles for a Post-human Palaeontologist“ the painter playfully acknowledges that there is “a man behind the curtain” and that the viewer isn’t about to fall down the rabbit hole, but is well […]
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2019
2019 Paintings 2019 Return to main gallery 2015 paintings 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 […]
Canadian surrealist painter looks at the mind
Canadian surrealist painter Stephen Gibb takes a mind-bending look at contemporary art, pop culture and social commentary with his painting You Are Out Of Your Mind! Playing with “mind” idioms is one way to blow your mind. Another is to examine the world through your mind’s eye. If you could read my mind you could […]
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Canadian painter, caught thinking
Explore the art of Canadian painter Stephen Gibb and unravel the inspiration and meaning behind "Caught"
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Surreal art and the pervasive nature of phobias