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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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Lowbrow pop surrealism
Lowbrow pop surrealism …just what exactly is this mishmash of cultural references and art keywords. Well, that pretty much says it all. To reach the audience who wants to delve into the realm of lowbrow pop surrealism, you have to be able to tickle the algorithms and register within the criteria of online search queries. […]
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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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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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Canadian cuisine
Some fun paintings by Canadian Artist Stephen Gibb, celebrating Canada's 150th birthday
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Canadian Art
Canadian art has an identity crisis. It is much more than the Group of Seven, wildlife and wilderness painting.
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Surreal artist performs alchemy