"What's extraordinarily powerful about his practice is that he mixes modernist abstraction language with Indigenous patterning,"
"With this body of work, this project in particular, he focused so deeply on the power of nature, on representing the beauty of our Earth."
"He's essentially taken these extraordinary video stills and knitted them together into this city block-long tapestry,"
"You keep finding new details. He has these up-close images of droplets on a branch, or bits and pieces of ice crackling up through frozen rivers, or snowscapes and sunsets, you can kind of stare at it for days."
A major mural by Mississippi Choctaw/Cherokee artist Jeffrey Gibson is being installed on the side of the former Bloomingdale's on Mission Street in SoMa. The work will span 433 feet by 66 feet and will cover windows with printed vinyl sheets. The project is a collaboration between the Institute of Contemporary Art San Francisco, Yerba Buena Partnership and the San Francisco Downtown Development Corporation. The mural evolves from Gibson's video installation "THIS BURNING WORLD," which premiered at ICA SF's Dogpatch location in 2022 and used clips filmed in upstate New York and the Bay Area. The imagery emphasizes nature, Indigenous patterning and modernist abstraction, creating a city block–long tapestry and aligning with the ICA's nomadic institutional vision after its move into the Cube on Montgomery Street.
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