Mark Thomas Gibson: Reconstruction

Art gallery in Philadelphia specializing in contemporary and self-taught art.

Fleisher/Ollman Gallery

Fragmented and collaged American flag paintings that point to redemptive possibilities for a polarized country.

Join us for the opening of Mark Thomas Gibson: Reconstruction.Fleisher/Ollman is pleased to present Reconstruction, an exhibition of new paintings by Mark Thomas Gibson (b. 1980, Miami, FL; lives and works in Philadelphia). Gibson explores American culture through an interlocking set of perspectives: the artist, the professor, and the devoted student of American history. He examines the relationship between the individual and state power through painting, drawing, sculpture, printmaking and publishing, revealing a vision of America in which every viewer is implicated as a potential character within the story. These perspectives define a practice rooted in historical inquiry and imagemaking.Mark Thomas Gibson has had solo exhibitions at venues including the Tang Teaching Museum, Skidmore College (Saratoga Springs, NY); the Museum of Fine Arts (Boston); Berman Museum (Collegeville, PA); The Library Company of Philadelphia; Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit; Sikkema Jenkins &amp; Co. (New York); KDR (Miami); Loyal (Stockholm); and M+B (Los Angeles), among others. He has been featured in group exhibitions at Luhring Augustine, Pace Gallery, and Barbara Gladstone Gallery (all in New York); Perrotin (Tokyo); the Fairfield University Art Museum (Fairfield, CT); the Driskell Center at the University of Maryland (College Park); SCAD Museum of Art (Savannah, GA); the African American Museum of Philadelphia; and the Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art (Richmond), among others. Gibson's work is held in the public collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Library of Congress, and the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (Kansas City, MO). Gibson has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Pew Fellowship, a Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University, and a Louis Comfort Tiffany Biennial Grant. He has been a MacDowell Fellow twice and has had residencies at Yaddo, the Elizabeth Murray Artist Residency, the Fountain Head, the Headlands Center for the Arts, Ox-Bow School of Art, and Pilchuck Glass School. Gibson received his BFA from The Cooper Union in 2002 and his MFA in Painting/Printmaking from Yale School of Art in 2013.

Mark Thomas Gibson, Reconstruction #02, 2026, acrylic on canvas, 25 ¾ × 31 ½ in (65.4 × 80 cm)

Mark Thomas Gibson: Reconstruction

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