Jeff Gibbons: 2025 Stephen Pace Artist in Residence
This fall, the Hudson D. Walker Gallery, with the support of the Stephen and Palmina Pace Foundation, is transformed into a 8-week residency space for mid-career artists.
We are excited to welcome and host Jeff Gibbons, 2023-2024 Visual Arts Fellow, who will begin his studio practice inside the Work Center’s gallery later this month.
Currently based in upstate New York, Gibbons is an intermedia artist whose work has been exhibited internationally, including in México, Japan, and across Europe, as well as at prominent U.S. institutions such as the Nasher Sculpture Center, the Power Station, and The Goss-Michael Foundation.
During his fellowship, Gibbons plans to create an immersive installation that alludes to the beginning of time and how it relates to finding meaning now, here on Earth. Next month, Gibbons will be activating the Hudson D. Walker Gallery, which will be open to the public for the first FAWC Friday of the season on November 7. We are honored to host his continued work in Provincetown and to offer the community an opportunity to experience it firsthand.
“My work is a poetic translation of my own sense of being, which often feels intangible and longing for some form of release that has no name. Recurrent themes in my life become recurrent themes in my work. My sculptures, videos, paintings, writing, and music are imbued with references to coping, loss, childhood trauma, death and dying, love, sexuality, belief, and perception. I’m most often focused on weaving together ideas and objects until they seem to be born into something with a life of its own. I look for a balance between intent and chance, creating meaningful moments that are simultaneously thoughtful and playful. Anything and everything I encounter has the potential to become source material for my work—early memories of myself and strangers, a relic from the past, the temperature or dust in a room, the shirt off my back.”
-Jeff Gibbons, 2023
Jeff Gibbons (b. Detroit, 1982) is an intermedia artist currently based in upstate New York. Gibbons’s work has been shown internationally in México, Japan, and across Europe. In the US, Gibbons has exhibited at venues such as the Nasher Sculpture Center, the Power Station, and The Goss-Michael Foundation. He has held artist residencies and fellowships at Cerámica Suro in Guadalajara, México, Achterhaus in Hamburg, Germany, and The Vermont Studio Center, among others. In 2018 he spoke about ice at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, D.C. In 2019, Gibbons was nominated for the prestigious Louis Comfort Tiffany award. Gibbons is a 2023-2024 resident fellow at The Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, MA.
