Jeff Gibbons: Turgid Umbo
November 7 - November 17, 2025
Hudson D Walker Gallery
The Fine Arts Work Center is pleased to present Turgid Umbo, the 2025 Stephen Pace gallery activation by Artist-in-Residence and Visual Arts Fellow Jeff Gibbons (2023-2024). Gibbons is an intermedia artist currently based in upstate New York. His 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.
In Turgid Umbo, Gibbons explores moments of tension and transformation through comedy and solemn self-reflection. Through sculpture, image, and material experimentation, Gibbons examines what happens when pressure builds, boundaries blur, and meaning starts to take shape. The exhibition reflects on the physical and emotional forces that define our shared experience. Gibbons’s work invites viewers to pause within this charged space, where creation and disintegration coexist, and to consider how our perceptions of the self shape the realities we live in.
Turgid Umbo will be on view at the Fine Arts Work Center in the Hudson D. Walker Gallery through November 17, 2025.
About the Artist
Jeff Gibbons (b. Detroit) is an interdisciplinary artist whose work spans a wide range of artistic practices. His art has exhibited internationally at venues in Mexico, Japan, and across Europe, and in the U.S., at institutions such as the Nasher Sculpture Center as part of their permanent collection, the Power Station, and The Goss-Michael Foundation. Gibbons spoke at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, D.C. on the intersection of art, ice, and climate change. He has been awarded several awards and fellowships including the Fine Arts Work Center’s long-term fellowship from 2023 to 2024 and their Stephen Pace Fellowship in 2025 in Provincetown, MA; Cerámica Suro Residency in Guadalajara, Mexico; Achterhaus International Artist Residency in Hamburg, Germany; and a long-term fellowship at Sculpture Space in Utica, NY from 2024 to 2025. Gibbons is represented in Dallas, TX by Conduit Gallery, and currently based in upstate New York.
