Jeffrey Gibson, an interdisciplinary artist, curator, and convener celebrated for his work in painting, installation, video, and performance, drew upon Indigenous kinship philosophies to create nashoba holba / wayaha / coyote. A testament to the importance and intelligence of the animal kingdom,…
BRICK BLOSSOM, 1981
Clay, sand, and sticks
Des Moines Art Center Permanent Collections; Purchased with funds from the Gardner and Florence Call Cowles Foundation, 1982.1
TIGHTROPE: NOISELESS 12, 2019
Reclaimed electrical wires and components on panel
Des Moines Art Center Permanent Collections; Purchased with funds from the Edmundson Art Foundation, Inc., 2019.17.a-.zz
TON PIED MON PIED (YOUR FOOT, MY FOOT), 2011
Mixed media
Des Moines Art Center Permanent Collections; Julian and Irma Brody African Art Collection by exchange, 2013.31
THREE FRIENDS, 1998
Oil on linen
Purchased with funds from the Coffin Fine Arts Trust and partial gift of Wendy Evans Joseph in memory of her late husband Peter T. Joseph and his passion for ballet; Nathan Emory Coffin. Collection of the Des Moines Art Center, 2001.27
STRUCTURIST RELIEF, RED WING #50, 1960-1966
Painted aluminum
Des Moines Art Center Permanent Collections; Gift of Louise R. Noun, 1968.36
ABSTRAKTER KOPF: INNERES SCHAUEN-GRAU-BLAU-ROSA (ABSTRACT HEAD: INNER VISION-GREY-BLUE-PINK), 1927
Oil on board
Des Moines Art Center Permanent Collections; Gift of Jacqueline and Myron Blank, 2003.271
UNCLOSED, 2007
Color hard-ground etching with spit bite aquatint and drypoint on paper
PRAIRIE CAIRN/ FOR MY FATHER/ GRINNELL, IOWA, 2001-2002
Suite of fifteen Cibachrome prints and one smaller framed title panel
Mnemonics of Shape and Reason, 2021
HD video, stereo, color
From the series entitled “The Miraculating Machine: Mock Suns and Halos ‘Round the Moon” (1981), 1992
Screenprint on paper
Des Moines Art Center Permanent Collections; Gift of the Des Moines Art Center’s Print Club, 2016.22
Yellow Blue, 1963
Oil on canvas
Untitled (Hoover), 1986
Painted steel
...they stood in a time of unknowing...for those who bear/bare witness, 2018
Hand-cut jacquard woven photo tapestry with glitter, appliques, pins, embellishments, fabric, tassels, brooches, acrylic, glass pearls, beads, and hand cast heliconias
The Problem of Leisure, What to do For Pleasure, 2011
Felt, yarn and acrylic on canvas
Samurai Tree (Invariant 1), 2005
“Lascaux” acrylic on linen
Portrait of Marcel Duchamp, 1953
Gelatin silver print
Lost III, 2011
Horsehide, wood, iron, and epoxy
Chapels (Series), 2017
marble, earth (Charleston, South Carolina, Emanuel African Church shooting), wood, plastic packaging and resin
Ada's Garden 1, 2000
Oil on canvas
