Jeffrey Gibson

Jeffrey Gibson is a Choctaw-Cherokee painter and sculptor of modern American origin. He is well-known for his paintings that mix traditional Native American art components with contemporary creative influences. Gibson frequently incorporates traditional Indigenous handicraft methods, such as Southeastern river cane basket weaving, Algonquian birch bark biting, and porcupine quillwork, into his work.

Indigenous crafts and patterns, according to the artist, have "historically been utilized to identify identification, tell tales, characterize place, and mark cultural distinctiveness." I use materials and procedures as tactics to construct a current story that tackles the past in order to situate oneself in the present and establish new potential future trajectories.” One of Gibson's most well-known series is punching bags turned into beautiful totems.

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