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Jeffrey Gibson: When Fire Is Applied to a Stone It Cracks

Feb 14, 2020 – Jan 10, 2021
200 Eastern Pkwy, Brooklyn, NY 11238, USA

Indigenous art, according to the artist Jeffrey Gibson, himself of Choctaw-Cherokee lineage, has “historically been used to signify identity, tell stories, describe place, and mark cultural specificity. I engage materials and techniques as strategies to describe a contemporary narrative.” Working to dismantle cultural prejudice, Gibson’s multimedia installations question traditional institutional practices. In this exhibition, he’s placed selected works from the museum’s permanent collection alongside his own, to create a provocative curatorial dialogue. —E.C.

Jeffrey Gibson, “When Fire is Applied to Stone it Cracks,” 2019. Courtesy of the artist and Kavi Gupta, Chicago. © Jeffrey Gibson. Photo: John Lusis.

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