Learn about artist 🎨 Jeffrey Gibson, an American of Choctaw and Cherokee heritage, then create Paper Meditation Beads inspired by his work. Learn more below 👇🏾
🖼️ I Don’t Belong to You, You Don’t Belong to Me, references George Michael’s 🎶 “Freedom! ‘90” 🎶 about finding one’s path and truth. This work is currently on view at The Alfond Inn, in Winter Park, Fl.
🎨 Says Gibson, “What was coming up at the time had everything to do with racism, classism, homophobia, feelings of invisibility, feelings of denial, feelings of inadequacy…and wanting to put that responsibility on somebody outside of myself. But there’s no one singular person. You choose where you’re going to contain these ideas and it becomes a metaphor, and you beat that, and hopefully it’s cathartic on some level. For me it was.”
In 2013 Gibson debuted four new works created specifically for the gallery niches at The Rollins Museum of Art (when we were CFAM). 🖌️ In Tipi Poles Performing as Lines, Gibson’s assemblages encompassed themes of appropriation and power, as well as the speed of modern life, while using traditional Native American motifs in surprisingly contemporary ways.
Jeffrey Gibson (American, b. 1972)
I Don’t Belong To You, You Don’t Belong To Me, 2016
Glass beads, tin jingles, artificial sinew, acrylic felt, canvas over wood panel
18 1/4 x 24 x 3 in.
The Alfond Collection of Contemporary Art, Gift of Barbara ‘68 and Theodore ‘68 Alfond, 2017.6.29. Image courtesy of the artist and Roberts Projects, Los Angeles, California
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