Statement
My visual interest of transparent objects, realism, spacial ambiguity, abstraction, picture plane, multiple vanishing points and perceptual perspective at times may make the viewer a bit uncomfortable but visually stimulating. This is my main visual problem I am trying to achieve-“give the viewer a visual experience they have not seen”.
The glass vases ,blue, yellow cords, tools, mirror,, larger then life images seem be to be floating in space. The viewer feels as if they can place their hand into the picture and the feeling they are able to push, catch, touch the the objects as they are see on a flat picture plane.
The works are a collection of the results of my “picture creating problem”, I have been working towards in the past few years.
Paul D. Gibson
Hunters Point Shipyard Studios
Building 101 Studio 2121
San Francisco, Ca 94124
415 519 7380
pdgibsonarts@mac.com`
Biography
Paul D. Gibson
Painting
Born 1957, Paul D. Gibson started his artistic vision under the guidance of his Mother, Gerda, an immigrant from Paraguay, South America, who was a cake maker specializing in wedding cakes, “her artistic purity lives inside of me”.
Paul was educated at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, Ca Architecture, where at the age of 22 he was offered a partnership at Greg Wilhelm AIA Architectural Firm, however this was not his desire and he decided to attend Art Center College of Design Pasadena, Ca receiving a BFA. With his passion for arts he made a decision to move to New York City “for it is the capital of the arts”. Paul received a full-time painting scholarship at the prestigious National Academy of Design New York, NY. Paul lived in New York for five years and became a believer in the visual arts and an avid collector of works on paper.
Paul moved to San Francisco 1989 and established a studio at Hunters Point Shipyard Studio to the present. He began teaching at the Academy of Art University for over 18 years instructing students in the art of drawing.
He has shown works at the Allan Stone Gallery New York, SFFine Arts Fair, ARTMK ,Art Hamptons NY , Red Dot, Art Basel Miami, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, LA Contemporary Art Show, San Diego Fine Arts Show, Art Silicon Valley SF, Trition Museum, Arthaus, George Krevsky Gallery, Melissa Morgan Fine Arts Palm Desert, Ca New Museum Los Gatos, Ca, Firehouse Art Center Pleasanton, Ca and at the Andrea Schwartz Gallery SF, Ca where he has had five solo shows. His work can be found in many private and public collections which include the National Building Museum Washington DC, Achenbach Collection SFA Museum, 9’ Public Bronze Sculpture 77 Van Ness SF ,Ca and the Seven Bridges Foundation, CT.
He is now working on a 18’ bronze sculpture monument for VMware “impossible is possible”., Palo Alto,Ca. Paul also recently showed three life size portraits “ 3 Lawyers” at Rocking Horse Gallery North Beach, Ca group shown with artist, Joan Brown, Manuel Neri, Gustavo Rivera, Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Brian Wall.
Paul and his wife Sharon are avid collectors of works on paper and paintings with more then 150 works in their collection. His home is an art sanctuary with the works by Lucian Freud, Paul Wonner, Chris Brown, Kathy Kollwitz, Gustoavo Rivera, Manuel Neri, Raymond Staprans, John Sloan, Jerome Wikins, Susan Hauptman,and many others.
He states: “I am a painter of spacial ambiguity, picture plane, perceptual perspective and representation of space, creating pictures from the art of history”.
Paul works and lives with his wife in San Francisco, California, where they raised four children now living in London, NYC and SF.