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MARK THOMAS GIBSON (1980 - ) Caught Up in Their Mess.
Pen and ink on buff wove paper, 2019. 203x254 mm; 8x10 inches.
Provenance: collection of the artist.
"Rendered during the height of the Trump administration, Caught Up in Their Mess depicts a black figure in a "Braer Rabbit and the Tar baby" scenario. Our protagonist a representation of blackness finds themselves trapped in a trap when confronting American white supremacist ideology. A klansman's hood lays across along in the foreground as a black figure in the center of the image struggles in a marshmallow like substance." - Mark Thomas Gibson. The artist created a large rendering of this subject on canvas in 2020 entitled Caught Up in their $#!? (Brer Gibson and the Marshmallow Baby)
Mark Thomas Gibson is an American history painter who uses satire and fantasy to reflect upon and critique contemporary history and culture. In addition to being a visual artist, Gibson is a curator, bookmaker, and educator. Born in Miami, FL, Gibson received his BFA from The Cooper Union in 2002 and his MFA from Yale School of Art in 2013. In 2016, he co-curated the traveling exhibition Black Pulp! with William Villalongo, and has published two artist books, Some Monsters Loom Large (2016) and Early Retirement (2017). In 2021, Gibson was awarded residencies at Yaddo and the Elizabeth Murray Artist Residency. In addition to a Pew Fellowship from the Pew Center for Arts and Heritage and a Hodder Fellowship from Lewis Center for the Arts, Princeton University, Gibson was most recently awarded a 2022 Guggenheim Fellowship and a Louis Comfort Tiffany Biennial Grant. Gibson teaches at Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Temple University and lives and works in Philadelphia. Gibson is represented by Fredericks Freiser Gallery in New York City and Loyal Gallery in Stockholm, Sweden.
Consigned to support the Rush Philanthropic Arts Foundation.
