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  • There's Fragility in Protecting What You Have, 2016, wood, varnish, wax, acrylic paint, 26 x 44 x 11 inches
  • Leave Me Like You Found Me
    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.
  • 5246 james gilbert Untitled, 2017, wood, paint, concrete, vinyl, wax, 27 1/2 x 7 x 7 inches
  • 5245 james gilbert Untitled, 2017, wood, paint, concrete, vinyl, wax, 29 x 6 x 6 inches
  • 5256 james gilbert Untitled, 2017, 5 1/2 x 6 x 2 1/2 inches
  • Odalisque james gilbert Odalisque (homage), 2016, acrylic paint, wood wax, mirrored plexiglass, 10 x 3 1/2 x 6 inches
  • 4706 james gilbert Wait Here While I Go For Help, 2017, hand-dyed canvas, polyester rope, wood, metal
  • 4712 james gilbert A Feeling of Total Deep Responsibility, 2016, hand-dyed canvas, rope, wood, 55 x 47 x 26 inches
  • 5241 james gilbert
    Untitled, 2017, wood, paint, concrete, vinyl, wax, 29 1/2 x 7 x 7 inches
    5243 james gilbert
    Untitled, 2017, wood, paint, concrete, vinyl, wax, 29 1/2 x 7 x 7 inches
  • IMG_5250_retouched_web Untitled, 2017, wood, paint, concrete, vinyl, wax, 26 1/2 x 6 x 6 inches
  • bag cage james gilbert Destroyed #9, 2016, hand-dyed canvas, rope, wood, varnish, 76 x 37 x 19 inches
  • bone cage james gilbert This About Sums it Up, 2016, found chewed bone, wire, acrylic paint, 2 x 5 1/2 x 2 1/2 inches
  • IMG_3574 Souvenirs and Heirlooms, 2018, pencil shavings, glass jars, cotton, pigmented wax, 3 x 2 1/2 x 2 1/2inches
  • 3089 james gilbert There's Fragility in Protecting What You Have, 2016, wood, varnish, wax, acrylic paint, 26 x 44 x 11 inches
  • Three_Graces_rt_web Three Graces (homage), 2016, acrylic paint, wood, wax, mirrored plexiglass, 12 1/8 x 3 1/2 x 6 inches
  • 4692 james gilbert Two Tortured Souls, 2016, acrylic and oil paint, wood, varnish, wax, 11 x 4 1/4 x 4 1/4 inches
  • 4687 james gilbert We Decided All Would Work Out Until it Didn't, 2016, hand-dyed canvas, rope, oil on canvas, 66x 45 x 26 inches
  • 5879 james gilbert It May Be Time to Rethink the Way You Think, 2017, hand-dyed canvas, polyester rope, wood, wax, 88 x 40 x 27inches
  • IMG_5235_retouched_web Untitled, 2017, wood, paint, concrete, vinyl, wax, 33 1/2 x 7 x 6 inches
  • 5237 james gilbert Untitled, 2017, wood, paint, concrete, vinyl, wax, 27 1/2 x 6 x 6 inches
  • 5254 james gilbert Untitled, 2017, wood, paint, concrete, vinyl, wax, 24 x 7 x 6 inches
  • 5251 james gilbert Untitled, 2017, wood, paint, concrete, vinyl, wax 26 x 7 x 6 inches
  • 5255 james gilbert Untitled, 2017, wood, paint, concrete, vinyl, wax, 25 1/2 x 6 x 6 inches
  • 4690 james gilbert Everything Will Work Out in the End, If It Hasn't it's Not the End, 2016, hand-dyed canvas, rope, oil on canvas, 55 x 46 x 26 inches
  • IMG_4700_rt_web Cabin You'll Eventually Live In, 2016, hand-dyed canvas, rope, wood, paint, 14 x 26 x 10 inches
  • 4702 james gilbert Untitled, 2016, wood, paint, 14 x 22 x 10 inches
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  • Destroyed #1 by James Gilbert
  • Sledgehammer. Bullet. Bomb.
    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. The sledgehammer, bullet, bomb, water or earthquake perform the destruction - 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 and architecture they then become the new identity and description for the object they are protecting. Through the use of common art making materials: 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.
  • May Contain Chemicals Known to Cause Sarcasm 3217 james gilbert May Contain Chemicals Known to Cause Sarcasm, 2015, 56 1/2 x 55 x 32 inches, oil on canvas, hand-dyed canvas, polyester rope, wood
  • Destroyed #4 3234james gilbert Destroyed #4, 2015, 60 x 36 x 16 inches, hand-dyed canvas, polyester rope, wood, varnish, metal
  • Destroyed #5 (detail) 3213 james gilbert
    Destroyed #5 (detail), 2015, 81 x 11 x 23 inches, hand-dyed canvas, polyester rope, wood, varnish
    Destroyed #5 3214 james gilbert
    Destroyed #5, 2015, 81 x 11 x 23 inches, hand-dyed canvas, polyester rope, wood, varnish
  • Untitled 3280 james gilbert Destroyed #10, 2015, 80 x 58 x 90 inches, hand-dyed canvas, polyester rope, wood, plaster, paint
  • A Historic Point of Interest and other Landmarks | James Gilbert A Historic Point of Interest and other Landmarks on Titan Road 2015, 75 x 103 x 76 inches, hand-dyed canvas, polyester rope, wood, metal
  • Redestruction#1 james gilbert
    Redestruction #1 (front), 2015, dimensions variable, canvas, wood, plaster, paint
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    Redestruction #1 (side), 2015, dimensions variable, canvas, wood, plaster, paint
  • Redestruction #1, 2015, color video with sound, running time 10:38
  • A Bunch of dum dums tried to Destroy it while I was in Charge of Protecting It , James Gilbert 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
  • Destroyed #7 3344 james gilbert Destroyed #7, 2015, 80 x 40 x 40 inches, hand-dyed canvas, polyester rope, wood
  • Destroyed #7 (detail) 3353 james gilbert Destroyed #7 (detail), 2015, 80 x 40 x 40 inches, hand-dyed canvas, polyester rope, wood
  • Destroyed #8 3331_james gilbert Destroyed #8, 2015, 37 x 96 x 14 inches, hand-dyed canvas, polyester rope, metal
  • Destroyed #2 3244 james gilbert Destroyed #2, 2015, 60 x 36 x 16 inches, hand-dyed canvas, polyester rope, wood, varnish, metal
  • Untitled 3270 james gilbert Destroyed #9, 2015, 80 x 36 x 27 inches, hand-dyed canvas, polyester rope, wood, plaster, paint
  • Destroyed #1 3257 james gilbert Destroyed #1, 2015, 31 x 15 1/2 x 10 1/2 inches, hand-dyed canvas, polyester rope, wood, varnish, metal, Calcutta marble
  • Destroyed #3 3246 james gilbert Destroyed #3, 2015, 64 x 24 x 14 inches, hand-dyed canvas, polyester rope, wood, varnish, metal
  • Corner wind _james gilbert Corner Wind, 2015, 36 x 24 x 24 inches, hand-dyed canvas, polyester rope, wood
  • Possibility of a Crushed Skull _ james gilbert Possibility of a Crushed Skull, 2015, 54 x 29 x 22 inches, hand-dyed canvas, polyester rope, wood, metal
  • Redestuction #2 james gilbert
    Redestruction #2 (front), 2015, dimensions variable, canvas, wood, plaster, paint
    Redestruction2 james gilbert
    Redestruction #2 (side), 2015, dimensions variable, canvas, wood, plaster, paint
  • Redestruction #2, 2015, color video with sound, running time 11:17
  • Untitled 3281 james gilbert Untitled, 2015, 66 x 27 x 14 inches, hand-dyed canvas, polyester rope
  • Wall for Nimrud 3099 james gilbert Wall for Nimrud, 2015, 8 x 17 x 8 feet, hand-dyed canvas, polyester rope, wood, metal, paint
  • 3090 james gilbert Wall for Nimrud (detail), 2015, 8 x 17 x 8 feet, hand-dyed canvas, polyester rope, wood, metal, paint
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  • Untitled, 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
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