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  • Truth and Reason, 2017, wood, paint, pigmented wax, 9 x 28 x 10inches
  • Plastic Primitive
    There is an interest in defining a period of our collective history and cultural understanding through objects of symbolic meaning used for ritual and cultural identity. While some objects have fetishistic qualities others are used for such reasons as fertility, worship or shamanistic idols. Exploring the vitality and power of primitive tribal art and the banal objects of pop culture are used to compress these apparently opposing elements into objects of meaning and humor.
  • 3874 james gilbert You Have a Beautiful Mind/There Are Two Options, 2017, wood, paint, pigmented wax, 29 x 7 1/2 x 7 1/2 inches
  • pink hands james gilbert Hearing Voices is Not What Destroys Us, 2017, wood, paint, pigmented wax, 11 x 30 x 23inches
  • 3893 james gilbert There May be a Reasonable Alternative, 2017, wood, paint, pigmented wax, 14 x 7 1/2 x 8 inches
  • 3900 james gilbert I Want to Tell You Something But I Can't, 2017, wood, paint, pigmented wax, 13 x 10 x 9 inches
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    Attraction and Intimacy, 2017, wood, paint, pigmented wax, 29 x 5 1/2 x 19 inches
    3872 james gilbert
    Attraction and Intimacy (back), 2017, wood, paint, pigmented wax, 29 x 5 1/2 x 19 inches
  • reclining nude pink james gilbert Untitled, 2018, wood, paint, pigmented wax, 8 x 34 x 9 inches
  • James Gilbert A Mystery, Fetish, Neurosis and Fragmentation of Ourselves A Mystery, Fetish, Neurosis and Fragmentation of Ourselves, 2017, wood, paint, pigmented wax, mirror 20 x 22 x 16inches
  • 3843 james gilbert Real Fake, 2017, wood, paint, pigmented wax, 18 x 8 1/2 x 9 inches
  • 3842 james gilbert Is There Any Brilliance in Last Memories? 2017, wood, paint, pigmented wax, 22 x 11 x 10 inches
  • 3860 james gilbert Harder, Better, Faster, 2017, wood, paint, pigmented wax, 26 x 6 x 8 inches
  • 3863james gilbert Something from Nothing, 2017, wood, paint, pigmented wax, 26 x 5 1/2 x 10 inches
  • pink skulls james gilbert That Which We Are, We Are, 2017, wood, paint, pigmented wax, 20 x 14 x 12inches
  • orange pink headsjames gilbert A Better Fictional Analogy, 2017, wood, paint, pigmented wax, 9 x 26 x 10inches
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    You Have a Strange Mind, 2017, wood, paint, pigmented wax, 25 x 5 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches
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    You Have a Strange Mind, 2017, wood, paint, pigmented wax, 25 x 5 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches
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    Three Stages of Ecstasy, 2017, wood, paint, pigmented wax, 71 x 11 x 10 inches
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    Three Stages of Ecstasy, 2017, wood, paint, pigmented wax, 71 x 11 x 10 inches
  • 3887 james gilbert There Are Only Two Dates That Have Meaning, 2017, wood, paint, pigmented wax, 22 x 5 1/2 x 6 inches
  • 3848 james gilbert A Solution and a Problem, 2017, wood, paint, pigmented wax, 23 x 8 x 5 1/2 inches
  • 3923 james gilbert Tell Me What You Like, 2017, wood, paint, pigmented wax, 11 1/2 x 7 x 6 1/2 inches
  • pink head on boob full james gilbert Untitled, 2018, wood, paint, pigmented wax, 11 x 19 x 12 inches
  • IMG_6066_RT_web Untitled, 2018, wood, paint, pigmented wax, 18 x 5 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches
  • IMG_6055_RT_web Untitled, 2018, wood, paint, pigmented wax, 21 x 7 x 7 inches
  • IMG_6071_RT_web Untitled, 2018, wood, paint, pigmented wax, 31 x 6 x 6 inches
  • IMG_6075_RT_web Untitled, 2018, wood, paint, pigmented wax, 27 x 11 x 12 inches
  • IMG_6068_RT_web Untitled, 2018, wood, paint, pigmented wax, 18 x 8 x 7 inches
  • reclining nude yellow james gilbert Possible Partner to Venus, 2018, wood, paint, pigmented wax, 10 x 30 x 8 inches
  • tall yellow james gilbert
    Untitled, 2018, wood, paint, pigmented wax, 38 x 11 x 9 inches
    tall yellow detail james gilbert
    Untitled (detail) , 2018, wood, paint, pigmented wax
  • three yellow heads james gilbert Untitled, 2018, wood, paint, pigmented wax, 17 x 14 x 11 inches
  • orgin of a species james gilbert Origin of a Species, 2017 wood, paint, 31 x 19 x 10 inches
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  • A Historic Point of Interest and Other Landmarks, 2016 (installation view) hand-dyed canvas, wood, paint, marble, dimensions variable
  • A Historic Point of Interest and Other Landmarks
    Continuing themes developed in Sledgmhammer.Bullet.Bomb. this also focuses on how natural disasters and accidents are inevitable but it is human aggression where we experience the loss of art, architecture and historical sites that are neither designed nor intends to be destroyed. To deliberately eradicate identity is to eradicate art and objects of symbolic meaning. We have witnessed systematic destruction of heritage as an attempt to destroy cultural diversity through religious or ideological reasoning, political agenda, activism or cultural curation. I wanted to reimagine an object that is simultaneously a symbol and protectant. When building protective barricades for fortification in front of and around culturally significant objects, artifacts and architecture they then become the new identity and description for the object they are protecting. Through the use of common art making materials: paint, canvas, marble and wood, they are reinterpreted as devices to defend, deter or lessen destruction but also form a new autonomous work to be visited, viewed and contemplated.
  • 3688 James gilbert Historic Point of Interest and other Landmarks A Historic Point of Interest and Other Landmarks, 2016 (installation view) hand-dyed canvas, wood, paint, dimensions variable
  • 3729 James gilbert Historic Point of Interest and other Landmarks A Historic Point of Interest and Other Landmarks, 2016 (installation view) hand-dyed canvas, wood, paint, marble, dimensions variable
  • 3735James gilbert Historic Point of Interest and other Landmarks A Historic Point of Interest and Other Landmarks, 2016 (installation view) paint, canvas, wood, marble
  • Left for Dead _ James Gilbert Left for Dead, 2015, latex paint mounted on hand-dyed linen, wood, varnish, 13 x 2 1/2 x 7 1/4 inches
  • 3660 james gilbert History of Mankindness, Invention and Destruction, 2016, acrylic mounted on canvas, canvas, wood, Calcutta marble, 28 x 17 x 9 inches
  • 3653 james gilbert Skin and Bones, 2016, acrylic mounted on canvas, wood, varnish, 19 x 15 x 2 inches
  • 3702 James gilbert Historic Point of Interest and other Landmarks A Historic Point of Interest and Other Landmarks, 2016 (installation view) hand-dyed canvas, wood, paint, marble, dimensions variable
  • 3715James gilbert Historic Point of Interest and other Landmarks A Historic Point of Interest and Other Landmarks, 2016 (installation view) hand-dyed canvas, wood, dimensions variable
  • 3698 James gilbert Historic Point of Interest and other Landmarks A Historic Point of Interest and Other Landmarks, 2016 (installation view) hand-dyed canvas, wood, paint, dimensions variable
  • 3664James gilbert Historic Point of Interest and other Landmarks A Historic Point of Interest and Other Landmarks, 2016 (installation view) hand-dyed canvas, wood, paint, dimensions variable
  • 3699James gilbert Historic Point of Interest and other Landmarks A Bunch of dum dums tried to Destroy it while I was in Charge of Protecting It 2015, 96 x 64 x 91 inches, hand-dyed canvas, polyester rope, wood, metal
  • 3724 James gilbert Historic Point of Interest and other Landmarks A Historic Point of Interest and Other Landmarks, 2016 (installation view) hand-dyed canvas, wood, paint, dimensions variable
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  • A Gentle Sort of Restlessness, 2025, wood, stain, ink, metal, wax, 18 x 27 x 19 inches
  • How Much Earth For Sale?,2022
earth, concrete, wood, metal, paint
  • Heirloom, 2023, wood, stain, paint, wax, metal, c-clamps, antique furniture, 75 x 95 x 47 inches
  • Arrogance & Evidence, 2019, vinyl, wood, rope, nature
  • Truth and Reason, 2017, wood, paint, pigmented wax, 9 x 28 x 10inches
  • A Historic Point of Interest and Other Landmarks, 2016 (installation view) hand-dyed canvas, wood, paint, marble, dimensions variable
  • There's Fragility in Protecting What You Have, 2016, wood, varnish, wax, acrylic paint, 26 x 44 x 11 inches
  • Destroyed #1 by James Gilbert
  • One Blank Round (detail), 2015, 8x8x8 feet, hand-dyed canvas, polyester rope, wood, paint, metal
  • 1968, 2013, 35 x 92 x 40 inches, hydrocal, pigment, wax, wood, varnish
  • Rough Trader, 2012 James Gilbert
  • My Pervy Bone, 2013, 8 1/4 x 18 3/4 x 12 3/4 inches, found chewed bone, neon, wood, varnish, electronics
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  • Social Foreclosure 1_1276_james_gilbert
  • Warnings & Instructions (Fun Raft of Medusa), 2010, 9 x 12 x 14 feet, plastic, thread, wood, paint
  • Worker (detail) 2011, 10 x 20 x 60 feet, found fabric
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