Off the Map

Landscape in the Native Imagination

In 2004, painter and installation artist Jeffrey Gibson (Choctaw/ Cherokee, b. 1972) began creating fantastical landscapes using layers of intensely colored marks, glossy and transparent pours, and his signature pigmented silicone. The environment he has created and explored with his work in the last few years reveals a narrative of emergence into a utopian state, which will lead, inevitably, to corruption and collapse. Off the Map