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Crazy art, surrealism or metarealism?

Stephen Gibb — Tue, 16 Apr 2019 13:20:57 +0000

Man Ray Bears Witness to a Culture of Take, Take, Take — Stephen Gibb, 36″ x 24″, oil on panel, 2019

It’s all crazy art, isn’t it?

What is “crazy art” aside from a naïve label, probably bestowed by a sincere art outsider? It is forgivable when “crazy art” is used as the layman’s password into the realm of exploration¬—like initiating a web search. Hopefully this kind of low target search may lead them to a deeper understanding and a more refined vocabulary.

Art is constantly indexed, and categorized with labels like “crazy art” and isms that satisfy our need to group things into referential bins. We stack them, ready for retrieval from our reference warehouse, ordered in a way that best suits knee-jerk access at the opportune moment. Often times the broad categorization bundles loosely-associated things into a catch-all taxonomy, so labels like “surrealism” come to encompass anything that’s a little off kilter. In this case, there is no service done to the 20th century art movement that Andre Breton cemented into art history with the likes of Dali, Magritte and Ernst. The intellectual foundations of the movement are marginalized by the convenience of describing something out-of-the-ordinary as “surreal”.

Just as it is important to differentiate that hail and a hurricane are not merely weather, but very distinct types of weather, it is important to identify that different art fits its definition with some accuracy.

I understand that the impulse to cast my crazy art as a surrealism is more accurate than to label me an expressionist but in some ways it’s like defining a species by its phylum. Other labels like “lowbrow” and “pop surrealism” have gained traction to some degree but miss the mark as well. Lowbrow usually pertains to a naïve, self-taught kind of art making that tends to side on the primitive spectrum of things. Pop surrealism, for the life of me, has taken on an affinity for portraits of child-like waifs with big, Margaret Keane-style eyes. Cute, but I don’t want to be part of that.

My problem with the surrealism label is largely due to my disassociation with Freudian psychology. Whereas the authentic surrealists held/hold Freud in high esteem and revelled in the unencumbered subconscious to inform their art, I allow a very conscious and deliberate mind to direct my work. The so called metarealists seem to adhere more to this deliberate kind of thinking but their own definition is as elusive and abstract as post modernism was to us in the 80s.

Someone once described my work as “bubblegum” surrealism, which I’m sure was meant as a slight insult but was ironically appropriate. Like the Bubblegum pop music of the 60s and early 70s, which took popular forms of music with an edge, like psychedelic and garage, and distilled them into palatable, marketable and more benign forms, I too soften my edges.

In some ways I have made my art more benign by introducing nursery rhyme characters and children’s-book characters into it, along with my saturated candy-colour palate. Using the characters as conventional symbols pulled from our common, western heritage, they come pre-loaded with meaning and act as comforting interlocutors for the viewer, drawing them deeper into the unusual settings.

Maybe the labeling should be left to the experts, the critics, the commentators and journalists. If my crazy art has any merit or integrity to warrant that kind of distinction—where someone deems it worthy of branding with an identifying label—then maybe that’s the true test of the art’s power on others.

Then again, nothing but thick, jaded skin will defend us from things like “engineered demand” and hollow marketing messages. The hype-machines will continue to spew out brands and labels, fighting for the last ounce of our scattered attention.

If someone discovers my art based on a “crazy art” query, so be it. I can be the “crazy artist”.

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Canadian Artist Stephen Gibb

Stephen Gibb — Tue, 10 Jan 2017 20:52:34 +0000

Opening the chocolate door that leads to the room where my ideas come from

Canadian Artist

Stephen Gibb

Canadian

Revenge of the Sycophant Scorned

What I bring to the art world as a Canadian artist is my idiomatic perspective on Surrealism. Dubbed by some as Bubblegum Surrealism or Pop Surrealism, I use the form to convey ideas in a pictorial and symbolic way using our rich visual culture to pull from. Often borrowing from nursery rhymes, Mother Goose and Grimm’s Fairy Tales, I take imagery of established conventions of childhood story telling and update them into adult themes.

In the above image I have clearly appropriated the image of Humpty Dumpty. His frail frame and cautious life-under-threat existence is the perfect emblem for the existential human. In this situation he is not perilously teetering on a wall but safely enthroned on a cushioned chair.

The real threat comes from the enraged monstrous head that is either poised to bite or is actively screaming at poor Humpty. The head-monster is strangling a chicken (old school end-of-life method for chickens) while in his skull gestates an embryonic spectre of death which opposes the potential of life-the standard symbolism associated with growth in the womb or within an egg.

To make matters worse, there seems to be an even more repulsive monster consuming a chicken leg at the top. On the wall hangs a portrait of a fried egg which brings the chicken/egg theme full circle. Like some ancestral painting it immortalizes an egg in an aborted stage of development.

My intent isn’t to impart a rigid, fixed meaning to the painting but to suggest a direction for the viewer to explore. There are some obvious themes and there are some that are more subtle. The transformative concepts of life, and mortality are readily available to the viewer as well as the personal associations they may draw from the objects themselves. There is also a narrative that presents itself through the title of the piece. The “Sycophant” is embodied by the head-monster and his rage is directed towards his one-time master Humpty Dumpty, royally perched on his throne. One can only guess what caused the revolt, but I suspect the spectre of death had something to do with it all…

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Persistence of decay

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Happy! — Stephen Gibb, 36″ x 24″, oil on panel, 2020

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While Canada may be best known for hockey, maple syrup and poutine it also has a rich history in the arts and literature as being a detached point of perspective from which to do profound field studies on the United States. As the nearest sibling to America, Canada has been infiltrated by its culture, invaded by its advertising, amused and confused by its politics and saturated by its media. Where better than to observe the crucible of western culture and watch it bubble over…?

Bubblegum Surrealism: Stephen Gibb – Artist Statement, pop surrealism canada, canadian artist.
(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 surreal single-punch-line comment on Canadian pop culture while the next it may construct a complex and playful diorama of surrealism probing into the outer perimeters of human nature and surrealism.
I am often categorized as a Canadian Artist surrealism but I’d begrudgingly prefer to tag it as existential editorial cartoon realism (Canadian bubblegum surrealism), just because it sounds more intelligent and funny at the same time. The work holds a certain surreal 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 Surreal Canadian Artist 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 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. Canadian Artist see for more Canadian pop surrealism.

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Canadian Surrealism Is Alive

Stephen Gibb — Thu, 22 Dec 2016 21:27:19 +0000

Canadian Surrealism is alive!

Waiting For The Death Blow

A painting also known as The Porpoise Waves Goodbye

The painting is an allegorical blend of sources, specifically songs by The Cure and
The Monkees as well as nursery rhyme and psychological references.

Stephen Gibb

, oil

panel

Canadian Surrealism is confronted head-on by Stephen Gibb’s Bubblegum Surrealism in an upside down Mother Goose world of humour and social commentary.

Always in the state of flux, my perspective on the world and how it informs my artwork is in constant modulation. Part of the input process involves pairing themes and concepts with emotion and contrast, which is then output using my Mother Goose meets Mad Magazine style of Pop Surrealism.

As children, we come to understand abstract concepts like morality and virtue in the form of nursery rhyme and fairy tale messages. What I imagine is the evolution of that form into an adult iteration, inducing an inner turmoil the viewer has to reconcile by navigating the more mature themes disguised as children’s story imagery.

What is perceived at the start is a layer of humourous innocence but what is arrived at in the end is a complex and hopefully intriguing conclusion.

Here we go round the prickly apple at 5 o’clock in the morning

A painting also known as The Hollow Man

The painting is an allegorical blend of biblical, nursery rhyme and psychological references,
taking cues from T.S. Eliot’s The Hollow Men.

Stephen Gibb

, oil

panel

Dopamine

The painting is an allegory of mass consumption and various degrees of desire and disgust.

Stephen Gibb

, oil

panel

The Panpsychic Candy Apple, Stephen Gibb, 36″ x 24″, oil on panel, 2020

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Canadian Surrealism.
Stephen Gibb – Canadian Surrealism disguised as an Artist Statement (Or, at least a feeble attempt to excuse my behaviour to those present with good taste)
What exactly is Canadian Surrealism? What exactly is Surrealism? Formally established in the 1920s by Andre Breton and others, it has persisted and evolved, becoming a shadow of itself but also becoming widely recognized and exploited by media and popular culture. Canadian Surrealism may at its root have a foundation in the indigenous art of Canada. Mystical, spiritual and certainly grounded in the realm of dreams the resonance of that foundation can’t help but manifest itself in Canadian Surrealism and Canadian Art. What I try to do as a surrealist is play with concepts and ideas that appear dreamlike but draw more from a symbolic and more allegorical mindset. A sense of humour also permeates my work, whether you find it funny or not, which I’m sure adds to the mystery and levels of understanding invested in the painting. Canadian Surrealism. Canadian Surrealism

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Surreal PB Cup

Stephen Gibb — Thu, 22 Dec 2016 17:10:58 +0000

Surreal PBC Cup

Stephen Gibb, 2’x2′, oil on panel, 2016

Tribute to two of my favourite foods – peanut butter and chocolate which come together in perfect harmony in the form of a surreal PB Cup.
Straight forward oil painting that falls inline with my recurring consumerism theme which often pairs the idea of things “consumed” or eaten with anthropomorphized products of pop culture. This painting is also consistent with my concept of Bubblegum Surrealism which utilizes a surreal handling of almost cartoonish images.

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Surreal PB Cup.
Artist Stephen Gibb – Canadian Pop Surrealism Artist.
The connection between the concept of consumerism and the objects and products consumed(literally) has been a recurring theme in my painting for years. I also like to anthropomorphize the products to give them an emotional dimension and character which in pop surrealism can then be integrated in a narrative including these characters. Surrealism has always delved into the realm where reality blurs into the dream world and making characters of inanimate objects also amps up the weirdness.
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Dopamine – by Canadian Pop Surrealist Stephen Gibb

Stephen Gibb — Fri, 09 Dec 2016 17:28:07 +0000

Dopamine

Stephen Gibb, oil on panel, 2016

This surreal painting by Canadian artist Stephen Gibb portrays a commentary on consumerism symbolized by the central figure of the all-consuming-mouth monster devouring candy, pastries and chocolate. The central elements contain benign, candy-coloured characters but give way to the austere, menacing and depraved characters that loom on the fringes. The specter of death with it’s grindstone nose, the onion spirit and other unsavory images of decay, disgust and filth frame the sweet interior. The contrast between the desirable and the repulsive adds to the tension of the the concepts at battle.
The title “Dopamine” is in reference to the reward centres of the brain that get flooded with dopamine when stimulated by the powerful feelings of pleasure associated with sugar consumption; however, these excess neurotransmitter levels also take a long-term toll on brain chemistry and can even promote substance dependency.
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Bubblegum Surrealism: Stephen Gibb – Artist Statement, pop surrealism canada, canadian pop surrealism.
(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
surreal single-punch-line comment on Canadian pop culture while the next it may construct a complex and playful diorama of surrealism
probing into the outer perimeters of human nature and surrealism.
My work is often categorized as Canadian pop surrealism but I’d begrudgingly prefer to tag it as existential editorial
cartoon realism (Canadian bubblegum surrealism), just because it sounds more intelligent and funny at the same time. The work holds
a certain surreal 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 Surreal Canadian 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 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. Canadian Surrealism
see stephengibb.com for more Canadian pop surrealism.

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2016

Stephen Gibb — Mon, 25 Jan 2016 02:33:16 +0000

2016 Paintings

2016

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Index of paintings by Stephen Gibb 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009

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 oilpainting
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.
see stephengibb.com for more 2016 paintings

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Bubblegum Surrealism: Splash page of images by painter Stephen Gibb

Stephen Gibb — Thu, 03 Dec 2015 00:17:11 +0000

Bubblegum Surrealism by Canadian Pop Surrealist Painter Stephen Gibb

Dopamine – oil on panel, 2016

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

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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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2012

Stephen Gibb — Fri, 20 Mar 2015 22:32:51 +0000

2012

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Visit Sideshow Fine Art for prints of selected works.

Index of paintings by Stephen Gibb 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009

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.
see stephengibb.com for more

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2011

Stephen Gibb — Fri, 20 Mar 2015 22:32:29 +0000

2011

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Visit Sideshow Fine Art for prints of selected works.

Index of paintings by Stephen Gibb 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009

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.
see stephengibb.com for more

2011 paintings

Published by Stephen Gibb 2011

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2013

Stephen Gibb — Fri, 20 Mar 2015 22:32:12 +0000

2013

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Visit Sideshow Fine Art for prints of selected works.

Index of paintings by Stephen Gibb 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009

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 oilpainting
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.
see stephengibb.com for more

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Stephen Gibb » painter

Crazy art, surrealism or metarealism?

It’s all crazy art, isn’t it?

Canadian Artist Stephen Gibb

Opening the chocolate door that leads to the room where my ideas come from

Canadian Artist

Stephen Gibb

Canadian

Revenge of the Sycophant Scorned

See if you can break the code on these paintings…

Persistence of decay

Revenge of the Sycophant Scorned

Artist:

Stephen Gibb

Dimensions:

2’

×

2’

Materials: oil

oil

on

panel

Canadian Surrealism Is Alive

Canadian Surrealism is alive!

Waiting For The Death Blow

The painting is an allegorical blend of sources, specifically songs by The Cure and The Monkees as well as nursery rhyme and psychological references.

Here we go round the prickly apple at 5 o’clock in the morning

The painting is an allegorical blend of biblical, nursery rhyme and psychological references, taking cues from T.S. Eliot’s The Hollow Men.

Dopamine

The painting is an allegory of mass consumption and various degrees of desire and disgust.

Surreal PB Cup

Surreal PBC Cup

Stephen Gibb, 2’x2′, oil on panel, 2016

Dopamine – by Canadian Pop Surrealist Stephen Gibb

Dopamine

Stephen Gibb, oil on panel, 2016

2016

2016 Paintings

Index of paintings by Stephen Gibb 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009

Bubblegum Surrealism: Splash page of images by painter Stephen Gibb

Bubblegum Surrealism by Canadian Pop Surrealist Painter Stephen Gibb

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Bubblegum surrealism of Stephen Gibb

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Index of paintings by Stephen Gibb 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009

2011

Index of paintings by Stephen Gibb 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009

2011 paintings

2013

Index of paintings by Stephen Gibb 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009

Materials:

oil

The painting is an allegorical blend of sources, specifically songs by The Cure and
The Monkees as well as nursery rhyme and psychological references.

The painting is an allegorical blend of biblical, nursery rhyme and psychological references,
taking cues from T.S. Eliot’s The Hollow Men.

2026

2025

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2023

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