Works by Jeffrey Gibson: Visiting Artist in Residence at Bard

Jeffrey Gibson, visiting artist in residence at Bard College and a celebrated member of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians, is showcasing his work in an exhibition titled Jeffrey Gibson: The Body Electric, on view at the Nashville Frist Art Museum through April 23.

The exhibition is “a clarion call for Indigenous power, queer recognition, and environmental resistance to the carnage of profit-mad commercial and industrial development,” writes Albert Bender for People’s World. His work in The Body Electric features a variety of paintings, sculptures, videos, and a mural, and draws deeply on his Indigenous heritage along with modernist explorations of color.

“His art takes the viewer through a dazzling panoply of paintings, sculptures, films, and installations,” Bender continues. “Gibson is not only an accomplished artist but also a profound, insightful philosopher whose thoughts abundantly filter into his renderings.”