Category Archives: Pop Surrealism
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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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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Life’s A Trip
Cover art for Trippie Redd’s Life’s A Trip album, August, 2018. Life’s A Trip The initial design, grew and blossomed from this point of beginning (below)…eventually leading to the final artwork above. Combining symbolic characters in a colourful explosion of activity Stephen Gibb followed Trippie’s suggestions of making the cover something so visually dynamic that […]
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To the Moon, and Back…
The moon face is an extension of nursery-rhyme imagery, often portrayed with cartoon-like expressions and occasionally with a more disturbing, unsettling face.
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2018
2018 Paintings 2018 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 Artist Stephen Gibb – Laughing out loud
Laughing all the way to the grave
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Anatomy of The Frog Prince At The Gates Of Decay
Frog Prince Anatomy: Analytical dissection of The Frog Prince At The Gates Of Decay To understand the motivation and source of my Frog Prince painting’s inspiration it’s probably best to break it apart and examine the bits close-up. The Frog Prince or the Prince Frog The central figure is the frog prince, which was chosen […]
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Crazy art, surrealism or metarealism?