Artist R.L. Gibson

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Artist R.L. Gibson

Category: Xerography

LINK to LOVE: Fotoblur

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It’s all a BLUR…

So I have to admit that I’m a little in love with fotoblur.  While I try to remind people that I am no more a photographer than a weekend golf player is a golfer, I do TAKE photographs.  Luckily, fotoblur has a category for fine art.  (continues below)

Click to check out the Fotoblur Profile of RL Gibson!

My profile is growing by baby steps, and I appreciate the kind words from other photographers.  But more than anything, I truly enjoy the inspiration of browsing through the work of others.  I can get a little absorbed, and before I know it…hours have passed by.

It is free for a basic profile, so check it out…

Click to see the fotoblur profile of Xerographist RL Gibson!

INKED

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Sakura Pigma Micron PenThe
black
Thin Line…

I am not one to be drawn to traditional art supplies.  I don’t tend to go gaga over watercolor papers or a specific brand of oil pastels.  I usually just love the bizarre, non-traditional objects that I believe are destined to end up as art–like abandoned lunch trays, old silkscreen frames and Cracker Jack boxes.

My primary focus has been Xerography, and I’ve had little use for pens and pencils over the years. However, as I begin exploring new techniques for an upcoming series, I have to admit that I have fallen in love with the Sakura Pigma Micron pens.

They are a fairly inexpensive alternative to the technical pen.  I am particularly in love with the Micron 05.  You have to use a very light touch, which isn’t really my norm, but the delicate results are just unbelievable.  They are pigment based, don’t bleed or feather, and they are archival.

I’m inspired…

LARYNGITIS

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The unsuspecting face of Alzheimer'sHere we go
again

At the end of 2012 when I am normally planning for the coming year with anticipation, something broke.  My Dad died unexpectedly, and my creativity came to a screeching halt.  I seemed unable to find a voice.  I haven’t been able to find something to say for over 8 months now.

Today, while sitting in the doctor’s office hearing that I will need yet another surgery, I found my voice.  While sitting there listening to the doctor explain that my body has turned against me once again, I realized how pissed off I am to be sick…again.

Not all art comes from anger, but it can be a fantastic catalyst.  As I sat and marinated in my newest health debacle, I immediately began to feel guilty for being angry.  Everyone’s body turns on them eventually…that’s how we die.  I’m not alone.

I have generations of family whose bodies have abandoned them in the end.  And I also have the pictures of them before they knew what was coming.  My grandmother, pictured here at 36, had no idea that 63 years later her most common phrase would be, “Do I know you?”

Art is found in contrast.  I found my voice again, and it really isn’t pretty.

Stay tuned…

 

 

Virtual Delight

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Virtual Delights from Melissa Wolf Fine Arts featuring Artist R.L. Gibson!DELIGHTED,
that’s me

My husband calls me “nauseatingly optimistic.” So when I read this show description, I thought, “What could be more fitting for this nauseating optimist?  I decided I had to enter:

“To dance on the plain of pure pleasure. To share extreme happiness with the world. Enjoyment in it’s purest form.  A dance between the happiest of realities and the imagination.

“What gives you, the artist, great pleasure? What delights you the most? Share it here and share it with the world!” –from MelissaWolfFineArts.com

Virtual Delights from Melissa Wolf Fine Arts featuring Artist R.L. Gibson!Virtual Delight is the latest online showcase for Melissa Wolf Fine Arts and was juried by Roxie Munro, Artist, Author, Lecturer.  And much to my surprise and virtual delight, I was juried into the show and found one of my two images on the front page representing the show.  I’m thrilled, just thrilled.

For those of you hesitating about  entering online competitions, I encourage you to think of them as the art publication opportunities of yesterday.  Art Magazines are rarer and rarer, and online publication opportunities are slowly taking their place.  Give it a try; maybe you’ll be delighted as well.

Take a look as this unique offering from
Melissa Wolf Fine Arts…
Virtual Delight!

ALL ABOARD: The Circus is headed to NH.

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Learn more about the Soo Rye Art Gallery!NO,
It is not an
Election Reference

Three of the members of my own personal art circus are headed to New Hampshire for the Winter Salon Show at the Soo Rye Art Gallery in Rye, NH.  Of the 12 pieces I submitted, they chose Pride, Greed and Patience (left to right below).  What an odd combination.  Greed is one of my favorites in the Psychomachia series, and of course, I love them all like my children.  But visually and philosophically, they make for an unusual combination.  It makes me wish more than ever that I could attend this opening.

For those of you that can’t make it the opening either,
here’s a little taste…

Pride Greed and Patience by Xerographist R.L. Gibson!

ID – The Object of Self

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GREAT
SHOW!

I am pleased to have been included in ID – The Object of Self at the Darkroom Gallery in Essex Junction, VT.  Here’s a great pic of my little mermaid hanging amongst the other juried participants. Bottom right corner.

Be sure to visit the
Darkroom Gallery online

for a sneak peak
at the exhibit!

On the Road, Again!

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Chastity: The Mermaid by Artist R.L. Gibson from the Psychomachia series!COLD WATER
for the
Mermaid

I am pleased and proud to have a piece from the Psychomachia series, Chastity:  The Mermaid,  showing in the ID – The Object of Self exhibit at the Darkroom Gallery in Vermont.

There is some humor, I suppose, in sending one of my more exposed self-portraits to a locale where it will be snowing before long.  And, funny enough, this piece has legs. It has been from Phoenix, AZ to Los Angeles, CA then to Austin, TX…and now to Vermont.  Ahhh, if time only permitted me to be her traveling companion.  Maybe next time!

Be sure to visit the Darkroom Gallery online
for a sneak peak at the exhibit!

TRIPLETS

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SENSORY OVERLOAD

I am proud to have a single and triptych piece accepted into the 2nd Annual Edges & Curves “Close Your Eyes” exhibit presented by The Haggus Society, of which I am proud to be a member (known as Hillbilly Hag). Here’s a shot of Hear See Speak No Evil, at the Upstairs at the Market Gallery just a day or so before the show opens…

Hear See Speak No Evill in LA at The Upstairs Market Gallery!

This year’s theme “Close Your Eyes” will explore wedge issues presented in the public discourse via all channels of media consumption.  The center piece of this triptych takes on a whole new meaning in this show.

STILL a Hag

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Learn more about The Haggus Society!THINK
no
EVIL

I am proud to have a single and triptych piece accepted into the 2nd Annual Edges & Curves “Close Your Eyes” exhibit presented by The Haggus Society, of which I am proud to be a member (known as Hillbilly Hag).

This year’s theme “Close Your Eyes” will explore wedge issues presented in the public discourse via all channels of media consumption.

Guest Juror, Natalie Abrams

“I don’t think anyone can argue we are living in divisive times. Individual rights, freedoms of person, religion or lack there of are under constant assault. Social and economic inequalities are as staggering as the apparent indifference of those who have the power to make a difference. How do we cope? Do we bury our head in the sand, join the picket line?

“As an artist, we have an added layer of reaction as we question whether or not to address these issues which are significant to us in our work. Art is a voice, active and present. As our society is being redefined before our very eyes, wouldn’t now be a good time to voice our opinions and help it grow into that more enlightened future we’d like to see?”

Think No Evil by R.L. Gibson, 2007

Featuring
the work of:

Robyn Alatorre
Brian Cho
Barbara Horosko Nichols
Elizabeth Bruno
Preston Craig
R.L. Gibson
Aimee Hertog
Susan Hunt
Lodiza Lepore
Patrick Gothard
Debra Girard
Paul Samenfeld
Sally Windle
Marian Yap

The exhibition runs from August 31 – September 9, 2012

Hours
Tuesday – Thursday 11AM – 5PM

Opening reception
Saturday, September 1, 2011
6 – 9 p.m.

Upstairs At The Market Gallery

1057 S. San Pedro Street in Downtown Los Angeles

Exhibition Preview Here

DOPPLE GANGER

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RL Portrait by Fermin Mendoza!Here’s lookin’
…at me, kid!

I was approached by Artist Fermin Mendoza recently; he is doing a portrait show project.  He is trying to do a portrait a day, in a leap year, and show them all in the Spring.  He asked me if you could use one of my self-portraits, and I agreed.

His project has the working title “artists / models / others” and are simply portraits of:

Artists– that are producing profound & brilliant work (mostly in the New York/Jersey area)
Models– that have striking or unique looks. (I am certain that I fall in this category. 🙂 )
Others– that he find interesting

He is approaching the creation of the work by using the quote below, by Lucien Freud, for guidance:

Pieces of Me Offspring by Artist R.L. Gibson“The aura given out by a person or object is as much a part of them as their flesh.  The effect that they make in space is bound up with them as might be their color or smell… therefore the painter must be concerned with the air surrounding his subject as with the subject itself. It is through observation and perception of atmosphere that he can register the feeling that he wishes his painting to give out.”

Here is his 6″ x 6″ original portrait of me (above left), along with the original image from which he worked (right).

All 366 portraits are set to be unveiled at an April 2013 show in Jersey City, NJ.

Stay Tuned for Details!