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Last year, even the Pew Research Center announced

Last year, even the Pew Research Center announced it would change its study procedures to ensure more caution when using generational labeling and making assumptions based on age. Kim Parker, director of social trends at Pew, described this better outlook, saying, “By choosing not to use the standard generational labels when they’re not appropriate, we can avoid reinforcing harmful stereotypes or oversimplifying people’s complex lived experiences.”
“You’re so different from me, yet so similar.”
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Some We May Never Know, 2022
42x38inches
Gouache, watercolor, ink, colored pencil on paper
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These carved wood sculptures reference meaning, pu

These carved wood sculptures reference meaning, purpose and narrative of archeology objects in relationship to our zeitgeist but miscommunicate what I want future generations to know about us. Using humble materials, each carving is anthropomorphic with intertwined multiple bodies, heads, hands, and feet with distortions, twists, and imbalances. Each having mismatched proportions, showing the blemishes of the materials, uncomplicated marks from chisels and hand tools while highlighting the imperfections of joinery. When selecting materials, I consider their metaphorical significance. These materials carry inherent connotations of time, aging, rejuvenation, authenticity, and artificiality - commemorating the inherent flaws of humanity. My attempt to understand is in terms of timeless human condition and basic emotions such as tragedy, ecstasy, doom, conflict among many other psychological concerns. Interpretation of the acts and bodies interaction is deceptive because while it is understood that some information from historical objects is certain many interpretations remain unknown. With this in mind, I have chosen an intentional misdirection as I feel there is much work to do if we are truthful with ourselves. Creating relics that are anachronisms but also in playful ways that intends to mislead accurate understanding. This is a project that addresses ancestry, shared history and revisionism.
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A Close Bond of Affection and Mutual Assistance, 2024, wood, metal, stain, varnish, wax, 13 x 27 x 17inches
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This group currently on view - 2016-2023 - - - - -

This group currently on view - 2016-2023
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The Relentless Unforeseen, 2024, wood, metal, stai

The Relentless Unforeseen, 2024, wood, metal, stain, ink, varnish, wax, 12 x 23 x 18 inches
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The Unfinished Burden, 2024 wood, metal, ink, varn

The Unfinished Burden, 2024
wood, metal, ink, varnish, wax
21 x 18 x 14inches

An unfinished burden clings to my chest
A silent reminder of a life unaddressed

I chose to examine this in context of using similar humble materials to make work that communicates our zeitgeist to future generations. How our behaviors are interpreted and misinterpreted depending on perspective. Grab, push, pull, embrace, struggle, desire, revulsion, conflict, share, heartache, guilt, shame, challenge, confrontation, aggression, affection, clash, combative, touching, adoration, lust, passion, yearn, tenderness, infatuation, admiration, clasp, feel, connection, coupling, menace and all psychological concerns.

You Can Hold Both Ideas in Your Head at the Same T

You Can Hold Both Ideas in Your Head at the Same Time, 2024
wood, metal, stain, ink, varnish, wax
15 x 28 x 15 inches
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Over the summer I have been quietly working on a n

Over the summer I have been quietly working on a new series which I feel says everything I want and need it to say. Initial drawings and concepts were made early in the year but I needed the time to reflect, research and make decisions. These hold many ideas at the same time about ancestry, shared history and revisionism. I’ll share more about the process and my writings about them as I post more from this specific series in the coming weeks.

There is Nothing Good or Bad Except by Comparison, 2024
wood, metal, stain, ink, varnish, wax
18 x 24 x 18 inches
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Short Attention Span, 2024 wood, stain, pigmented

Short Attention Span, 2024
wood, stain, pigmented wax, metal
25x12x11 1/2 inches
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I was thinking about this one today. I was on a wa

I was thinking about this one today. I was on a walk and working through ideas of installations and sculptures I have in progress. One thing I know about myself, if I can solve a sculpture in my head I don’t need to make it. The ideas that have uncertainty are the ones I need to make and see. The metaphor of these two roughly carved hands (largely oversized) pinned together and restricted at their forearms feels of the moment globally, at least how I am feeling. It leaves me wanting to address this idea again in way that absolves me but also finds a solution to reckon a new solution.

Hearing Voices is Not What Destroys Us, 2017, wood, paint, pigmented wax, 11 x 30 x 23inches

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The Descendants (detail) gouache, watercolor, ink,

The Descendants (detail) gouache, watercolor, ink, colored pencil on paper
52 × 42 inches

For this series of drawing I allow the background to be visible through the faces as we all have history and ancestral story that passes through generations and is evident in our current lives and individual portraits.
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James Gilbert History and Tradition I & II, 2022 g

James Gilbert
History and Tradition I & II, 2022
gouache, watercolor, ink, colored pencil on paper
25.125 x 18 x .875 in
30 x 23.75 in Framed
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A theme I return to for evolving reasons. The ri

A theme I return to for evolving reasons.

The righting of historical wrongs is unfortunately not a priority

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All the Pleasures of Beauty and Beneficence, wood,

All the Pleasures of Beauty and Beneficence, wood, paint, pigmented wax, 33x18x17inches
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Is There Any Brilliance in Last Memories?, 2017, w

Is There Any Brilliance in Last Memories?, 2017, wood, pigment, wax, 22x11x10inches

I Want to Tell You Something but I Can't, 2017, wood, pigment, wax, 13x10x9inches

There May Be a Reasonable Alternative, 2017, wood, paint, pigmented wax, 14 x 7 1/2 x 8
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I think all these things are true and there are revisionist complexities to our lives. Some ideas have become insignificant while you realize the simplest things have meaning and have become the most important.
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Heirloom, 2023 wood, stain, paint, wax, metal, c-c

Heirloom, 2023
wood, stain, paint, wax, metal, c-clamps, antique furniture
75 x 95 x 47 inches
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[LINK IN BIO] New Interview - thank you for the th

[LINK IN BIO] New Interview - thank you for the thoughtfully engaged conversation with Tolga Rahmalaroglu at Luxiders Magazine about my practice, meaning, process, societal aspects and how I hope to engage with an audience.

LINK IN BIO for full interview

Exerpt:
From sculpture to performance art, the LA-based artist James Gilbert envisions a fascinatingly unique world through his art. We asked Gilbert about his experiences before and after creation, and his derivation points.

The Los Angeles-based multifaceted artist James Gilbert might be one of the purest transformative talents in art: What the artist takes as an inspiration to produce an artwork always comes from a merger of ‘everything’. Merging the moments gets more and more fascinating with Gilbert’s touch, as he interprets the materials to use in a way that matches Gilbert’s sensualistic, natural, and meaningful process of creation. On the other hand, what James Gilbert presents is beyond an artistic flux, but a milestone, a witness, and a commenter to the times we have been through and currently experiencing. The artist states “For me, the role of art is only powerful in shaping collective consciousness if we are actively engaged, paying attention and willing to think deeply and then behave accordingly,” when he is asked about his perception of art. Here is a heart-stopping interview with James Gilbert about his art and societal aspects of it.
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Are We Taking the Same Risks, 2023 34 x 13 x 16 in

Are We Taking the Same Risks, 2023
34 x 13 x 16 inches
wood, stain, metal, wax
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I don’t question what interests me, I want to co

I don’t question what interests me, I want to combine as many of those dissimilar ideas as possible. This is how I want to move through my days - collecting as much information as I can and base ideas and actions on them. I want my work to behave the way too. As someone who also shifts between disciplines nor do I question changing materials as those do carry significant meaning and are important to serve the idea. Though, I do feel it is necessary to pay attention to social behaviors, complex relationships, moments that define us and shift knowledge. That’s is where I question.
This is how I explain my responsibility to social groups, communities and culture.
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I was compelled to document every grave stone of a

I was compelled to document every grave stone of an entire small, old village in the south of France. This could have just as easily been in any town in the world. In the end we are only two numbers for people that never knew us. I think about these rubbings a lot as I have still not decided how I will use them. Every time I feel affected by news and world events that I return to the idea that small specific moments are often the memorable moments of our relationships and lives and that anything beyond that is not as important. Living together and working together should be the goal with each of us contributing to a society to make it better for everyone not just ourselves. Ah, but perhaps I’m trying to balance my optimism with my pessimism with wishes and realities. Let me know what you think.
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History lesson. My version. - - - - - - - #contem

History lesson. My version.
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Details of joints I make.
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Last week to view the exhibition, Baker’s Dozen

Last week to view the exhibition, Baker’s Dozen at Torrance Art Museum. This is one of three sculptures included.

We Did this to Ourselves, 2020
Wood, stain, pigmented wax
37x28x25 inches

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The Descendants, Survivors and Forebears 2022 goua

The Descendants, Survivors and Forebears 2022
gouache, watercolor, ink, colored pencil on paper
52 × 42 inches

For this series of drawing I allow the background to be visible through the faces as we all have history and ancestral story that passes through generations and is evident in our current lives and individual portraits.
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It’s been nearly a full year cycle for a sculptu

It’s been nearly a full year cycle for a sculpture I completed at @franconiamn for @4groundbiennial
It’s been fun to watch it from full bloom, overgrown green grass, dormant native plants and snow covered. It is living within its environment as planned.

Franconia Sculpture Park offers a 50-acre outdoor museum, active artist residency program, and a depth and breadth of community arts programming for a diverse and engaged public. Open 365 days a year.

How Much Earth For Sale? 2022
Earth, concrete, wood, metal, paint
11x14x6 feet
- Building with rammed earth is the one of the oldest techniques. Civilizations have historically relied on earth as an available material - it is durable, cost effective with minimal environmental impact.

How Much Earth is for Sale? is conceived as a monument, even for those with whom we disagree. We have become a nation of judgmental provocateurs, leveraging social media platforms to saturate the popular zeitgeist with superficiality, while evading taking responsibility on what’s at stake: access to justice, historical redress, environmental disasters, and racial inequity. We are spurring divisions and conflicts within our communities and households.

A staple of federal and state cases related to Native American land title for 200 years is Johnson v. M'Intosh, 21 U.S. (7 Wheat.) 543 (1823). The landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court held that private citizens could not purchase lands from Native Americans. The legal result was that the only conveyances executing valid transfers of land title ownership with Native Americans were the one transacted with the Federal Government: creating a system of monopoly, annihilating free market-style biddings and enabling the acquisition of Native American lands at the lowest possible cost.

The home frame replicates that of a Monopoly board-game piece and the lines of the home painted in ‘warning and safety’ color orange

Torrance Art Museum, currently on view. @torranc

Torrance Art Museum, currently on view.

@torranceartmuseum

Does Not Begin and End the Way We See, 2020, wood, stain, pigmented wax 32 x 22 x 25 inches

Bakers Dozen, A Survey of thirteen
Southern California contemporary art practices
This summer will be the 8th installment of TAM's innovative exploration of the Southern California
Artistic landscape of the past year.
Referencing the practice by bakers of including more than twelve in their dozen. TAM's curatorial staff also generously includes more than twelve artistic practices in their survey exhibition. The selections within this exhibition reflect the preconceptions and biases of TAM curatorial staff, centering on Southern California artistic endeavors at this moment in time.

PARTICIPATING ARTISTS:
Suzanne Bybee, Pui Tiffany Chow, Rosson Crow, Lola del Fresno, James Gilbert, Deborah Lynn Irmas, James Langford, Atilio Pernisco, Cindy Phenix, Alicia Piller, Dani Tull, Michael Chattem, Jack X

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Torrance Art Museum, currently on view. Bakers D

Torrance Art Museum, currently on view.

Bakers Dozen, A Survey of thirteen
Southern California contemporary art practices
This summer will be the 8th installment of TAM's innovative exploration of the Southern California
Artistic landscape of the past year.
Referencing the practice by bakers of including more than twelve in their dozen. TAM's curatorial staff also generously includes more than twelve artistic practices in their survey exhibition. The selections within this exhibition reflect the preconceptions and biases of TAM curatorial staff, centering on Southern California artistic endeavors at this moment in time.

PARTICIPATING ARTISTS:
Suzanne Bybee, Pui Tiffany Chow, Rosson Crow, Lola del Fresno, James Gilbert, Deborah Lynn Irmas, James Langford, Atilio Pernisco, Cindy Phenix, Alicia Piller, Dani Tull, Michael Chattem, Jack X Proctor, and Leslie Foster

@torranceartmuseum

Foreground;
We Did this to Ourselves, 2020
Wood, stain, pigmented wax
37x28x25 inches

Background:
Does Not Begin and End the Way We See, 2020, wood, stain, pigmented wax 32 x 22 x 25 inches

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Delivered. Upcoming at Torrance Art Museum, openi

Delivered. Upcoming at Torrance Art Museum, opening May 27th.

A Survey of thirteen
Southern California contemporary art practices
This summer will be the 8th installment of TAM's innovative exploration of the Southern California
Artistic landscape of the past year.
Referencing the practice by bakers of including more than twelve in their dozen. TAM's curatorial staff also generously includes more than twelve artistic practices in their survey exhibition. The selections within this exhibition reflect the preconceptions and biases of TAM curatorial staff, centering on Southern California artistic endeavors at this moment in time.

PARTICIPATING ARTISTS:
Suzanne Bybee, Pui Tiffany Chow, Rosson Crow, Lola del Fresno, James Gilbert, Deborah Lynn Irmas, James Langford, Atilio Pernisco, Cindy Phenix, Alicia Piller, Dani Tull, Michael Chattem, Jack X Proctor, and Leslie Foster

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My rules to live by. I made this drawing about a y

My rules to live by. I made this drawing about a year ago. It is my reminder of what kind of world I want to live in.

I have admitted, too close, relationship with political and cultural news habit. Many times I feel I need to be aware of everything around me to better be able to respond within my work. However, during recent travels, mainly to countrysides, I put my phone away, ignored the news, and tried my best to experience the quality of life around me. Rules: we know there are too many distractions, we know good will, services and gestures don’t make headlines like drama, fear and celebrity, but we know there many people who are clever, talented, and trying to make a positive contribution to society.

Where a prized career opportunity is reality show talent judge you know we have a cultural societal problem, 2022
14 x 11 inches
gouache, colored pencil on paper
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Beginnings to end of a few sculptures. I really li

Beginnings to end of a few sculptures. I really like how they look together.

No matter what scientists and historians discover about ancient civilizations there is always an unknown about the societies’ cultural identity because it wasn’t recorded. In some cases sculptures, idols, markers or drawings exist or were left behind for us and we can try our best to interpret. I am interested in those objects and their relationship to identity and history. Some is speculation, some is science. What will future generations know about us?
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That one time I decided to ship 25 years of my jou

That one time I decided to ship 25 years of my journals to another country so I could spent time researching, reading, and exploring for future projects:
1. The airline lost them
2. Customs opened them
3. I almost just lost them again recently due to a major studio water leak
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I Don’t Know How to be Everything to Everyone, 2

I Don’t Know How to be Everything to Everyone, 2020, wood, stain, pigmented wax, 18 1/2 x 11 x 9 inches, private collection
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Yet to be titled, 2022, 52x42 inches
Watercolor, gaouche, ink, colored pencil on paper

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When you travel all night and then wake up to four

When you travel all night and then wake up to fourteen new messages with news you didn’t expect to hear but also were waiting to hear and you can only think to reply “Oh my, dress warm. Let me know when you are back and safe.”
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Yet to be titled, gouache, watercolor, ink, colored pencil on paper, 52x42 inches.
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