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  • World Tour
    Wrestling World Tour transforms the museum into a site of physical participation by inviting visitors to wrestle the artist. The work brings together two cultural traditions—art and sport—that are often afforded different kinds of cultural attention, asking how each helps define what a community values and chooses to preserve.

    Although wrestling is among the world's oldest recorded sports, its place within the modern Olympic Games has periodically been questioned. The tension between its long history and uncertain future reflects the vulnerability of art, history, and cultural heritage when they are neglected, abandoned, or intentionally erased.

    By replacing passive observation with direct physical engagement, Wrestling World Tour suggests that culture is sustained as much by participation as by preservation. The work asks how societies determine what is worth carrying forward, what is allowed to disappear, and who makes those decisions.
  • wrestling head gear, 2013 James gilbert  James Gilbert artist performance Dallas Contemporary Wrestling Head Gear, 2013, 9 x 9 x 9 inches, plastic, foam, metal
  • wrestling scores1, 2013 James gilbert  James Gilbert artist performance Dallas Contemporary
    Wrestling Scores #1, 2013, 11 x 8 1/2 inches, ink, paper
    Wrestling Scores2, 2013 James gilbert  James Gilbert artist performance Dallas Contemporary
    Wrestling Scores #2, 2013, 11 x 8 1/2 inches, ink, paper
  • I'm Calling You Out, 2013 james gilbert I'm Calling You Out! (from starwarsvirgin), 2013, 11 x 14 inches, ink on paper, Edition of 5
  • James Gilbert #1w8_2_2626retouched  James Gilbert artist performance Dallas Contemporary #1 Win 8-2, 2013, 8 x 8 inches, inkjet on paper, Edition of 3
  • james gilbert #2w8_2_2630retouched  James Gilbert artist performance Dallas Contemporary #2 Win 8-2, 2013, 8 x 8 inches, inkjet on paper, Edition of 3
  • james gilbert #3d3_3_2631retouched  James Gilbert artist performance Dallas Contemporary #3 Draw 3-3, 2013, 8 x 8 inches, inkjet on paper, Edition of 3
  • james gilbert #4w2_1_2635_retouch  James Gilbert artist performance Dallas Contemporary #4 Win 2-1, 2013, 8 x 8 inches, inkjet on paper, Edition of 3
  • James Gilbert #5w2_0_2638  James Gilbert artist performance Dallas Contemporary #5 Win 2-0, 2013, 8 x 8 inches, inkjet on paper, Edition of 3
  • James Gilbert #6w5_2643retouched  James Gilbert artist performance Dallas Contemporary #6 Win 5-2, 2013, 8 x 8 inches, inkjet on paper, Edition of 3
  • james gilbert #7w8_0_2646retouched  James Gilbert artist performance Dallas Contemporary #7 Win 8-0, 2013, 8 x 8 inches, inkjet on paper, Edition of 3
  • #8w4_0_2650retouched James Gilbert  James Gilbert artist performance Dallas Contemporary #8 Win 4-0, 2013, 8 x 8 inches, inkjet on paper, Edition of 3
  • #9w2_0_2655retouched James Gilbert  James Gilbert artist performance Dallas Contemporary #9 Win 2-0, 2013, 8 x 8 inches, inkjet on paper, Edition of 3
  • #10w4_1_2657retouched James Gilbert  James Gilbert artist performance Dallas Contemporary #10 Win 4-1, 2013, 8 x 8 inches, inkjet on paper, Edition of 3
  • #11d0_0_2660retouched James Gilbert  James Gilbert artist performance Dallas Contemporary #11 Draw 0-0, 2013, 8 x 8 inches, inkjet on paper, Edition of 3
  • James Gilbert #12w4_0_2663retouched  James Gilbert artist performance Dallas Contemporary #12 Win 4-0, 2013, 8 x 8 inches, inkjet on paper, Edition of 3
  • #13w8_0_2664retouched James Gilbert  James Gilbert artist performance Dallas Contemporary #13 Win 8-0, 2013, 8 x 8 inches, inkjet on paper, Edition of 3
  • James Gilbert #14w6_0_2668retouched  James Gilbert artist performance Dallas Contemporary #14 Win 6-0, 2013, 8 x 8 inches, inkjet on paper, Edition of 3
  • james gilbert #15w2_0_2677retouched  James Gilbert artist performance Dallas Contemporary #15 Win 2-0, 2013, 8 x 8 inches, inkjet on paper, Edition of 3
  • #16w4_0_2680retouched James Gilbert  James Gilbert artist performance Dallas Contemporary #16 Win 4-0, 2013, 8 x 8 inches, inkjet on paper, Edition of 3
  • James Gilbert #17w2_0_2682retouched  James Gilbert artist performance Dallas Contemporary #17 Win 2-0, 2013, 8 x 8 inches, inkjet on paper, Edition of 3
  • James Gilbert #18d0_0_2688retouched  James Gilbert artist performance Dallas Contemporary #18 Draw 0-0, 2013, 8 x 8 inches, inkjet on paper, Edition of 3
  • #19w2_0_2691_retouch James Gilbert  James Gilbert artist performance Dallas Contemporary #19 Win 2-0, 2013, 8 x 8 inches, inkjet on paper, Edition of 3
  • James Gilbert #20w12_0_2695retouched  James Gilbert artist performance Dallas Contemporary #20 Win 12-0, 2013, 8 x 8 inches, inkjet on paper, Edition of 3
  • james gilbert #21d0-0_2701retouched  James Gilbert artist performance Dallas Contemporary #21 Draw 0-0, 2013, 8 x 8 inches, inkjet on paper, Edition of 3
  • james gilbert #22w8_1_2704retouched  James Gilbert artist performance Dallas Contemporary #22 Win 8-1, 2013, 8 x 8 inches, inkjet on paper, Edition of 3
  • james gilbert #23d0_0_2706retouched  James Gilbert artist performance Dallas Contemporary #23 Draw 0-0, 2013, 8 x 8 inches, inkjet on paper, Edition of 3
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  • Social Foreclosure
    Social Foreclosure is a site-specific installation that reflects on the gradual loss of privacy in contemporary life. Towers of stacked bunk beds fitted with translucent pink camping tents transform familiar domestic objects into fragile architectural structures that blur the distinction between home and temporary shelter.

    Bringing together two forms of intimate space—the bed and the tent—the installation examines how the boundaries between private and public life have become increasingly unstable. Repeated as modular structures, they suggest apartment buildings, institutional housing, and temporary encampments simultaneously, presenting home less as a protected refuge than as a condition continually exposed, negotiated, and redefined.

    Social Foreclosure reflects on the quiet unease of entering a world where privacy itself seems increasingly fragile. Rather than documenting a particular housing condition, the installation asks how communities—and individual identities—change when even our most intimate spaces are no longer entirely our own.
  • Social Foreclosure 2_1307_james_gilbert Social Foreclosure, 2012, 12 x 30 x 25 feet, plastic, thread, wood, fiberglass, metal
  • Social Foreclosure (detail) 3_1337_james_gilbert Social Foreclosure (detail), 2012, plastic, thread, wood, fiberglass, metal
  • Social Foreclosure 4-1304_james_gilbert Social Foreclosure, 2012, 3 x 15 x 25 feet, plastic, thread, wood, fiberglass, metal
  • Social Foreclosure 5_1309_james_gilbert Social Foreclosure, 2012, 12 x 30 x 25 feet, plastic, thread, wood, fiberglass, metal
  • social_foreclosure1_james_gilbert Social Foreclosure 2, 2011, 60 x 56 x 90 inches, plastic, thread, wood, paint, fiberglass, metal, dishes
  • Social Foreclosure (detail) 6_1363_james_gilbert Social Foreclosure (detail), 2012, plastic, thread, wood, fiberglass, metal
  • Social Foreclosure (detail) 6.5_1361_james_gilbert Social Foreclosure (detail), 2012, plastic, thread, wood, fiberglass, metal
  • Good&Plenty1_james_gilbert Good & Plenty 1, 34 x 35 19 inches, plastic, thread, wood, paint, dishes
  • Social Foreclosure 7_1279_james_gilbert Social Foreclosure, 2012, 3 x 12 x 30 feet, plastic, thread, wood, fiberglass, metal
  • Social Foreclosure 8_1314_james_gilbert Social Foreclosure, 2012, dimensions variable, plastic, thread, wood, fiberglass, metal
  • Good&Plenty2_james_gilbert Good & Plenty 2, 2011, plastic, thread, wood, paint, dishes
  • Social Foreclosure 9_1324_james_gilbert Social Foreclosure, 2012, 12 x 30 x 30 feet, plastic, thread, wood, fiberglass, metal
  • Social Foreclosure 10_1331_james_gilbert Social Foreclosure, 2012, 12 x 30 x 30 feet, thread, wood, fiberglass, metal
  • Nothing Really Mattress, 2011, color video with sound, running time 7:47
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  • A Gentle Sort of Restlessness, 2025, Wood, stain, ink, metal, and wax, 18 × 27 × 19 inches
  • How Much Earth For Sale?, 2022, Earth, concrete, wood, metal, paint, 11 × 14 × 6 feet
  • Heirloom, 2023, Wood, stain, paint, wax, metal, C-clamps, antique furniture, 75 × 95 × 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
  • WrestlingShoes2_2741 James Gilbert artist performance Dallas Contemporary
  • 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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