Still-life painting by John Gibson, Blue and White Ball

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John Gibson
Still-life painting by John Gibson, Blue and White Ball
1993

About the Item

'Blue and White Ball' 1993 by American artist John Gibson. Oil on wood with engraving, 18 x 13 5/8 in. This painting features a still-life of a blue and white ball. Containing a powerful kind of potential energy, the ball seems to be on the verge of rolling out of the composition and into reality. At the same time, it is silent and still, restrained by the materiality of paint and the flatness of canvas. With subtly rich colors and a finely balanced composition, this work projects intelligence, grace, and a hint of mystery. Framed in dark wood. Since the 1980's, John Gibson has been painting still-life balls from an innate desire to successfully depict 3-dimensionality within the constraints of a 2-dimensional surface. Playing around with patterned surfaces and the careful organization of his subject matter, Gibson builds a subtle complexity within his compositions. Strongly influenced by Italian painter Giorgio Morandi’s repetitive paintings of vases, each of Gibson’s paintings is a new opportunity to perfect the artistic technique of rendering the spheres. Every large-scale work is focused on exploring reflection, shadow, and curvature, commanding consideration and meditation. John Gibson is a native of Massachusetts, born in Boston in 1958. He attended the Rhode Island School of design (where he earned a BFA in 1980), before earning his post-graduate degree from the prestigious master’s program at Yale. Gibson had his first one-man show at the University of Massachusetts in 1984, and he began showing in group exhibitions in the Boston and New York areas in the late 1980s. In the early 1990s Gibson’s paintings began to focus on pyramidal compositions of spheres resembling children’s playground balls, decorated in the manner of colorful soccer balls. Gibson’s work is currently held in numerous corporate and public collections around the country, including those of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, University of Massachusetts, the Ackland Art Museum in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and the New York Public Library.

Creator:
John Gibson (1791-1866, British)
Creation Year:
1993
Dimensions:
Height: 18 in (45.72 cm)Width: 13 in (33.02 cm)
Medium:
Oil,Wood Panel,Engraving
Movement & Style:
Realist
Period:
1990-1999
Condition:
Gallery Location:
White Plains, NY
Reference Number:
1stDibs: LU37336836992