David Gilbert
Artissima 2023
November 03 - 05, 2023
Present Future Booth PF4
Preview Thursday November 2
Artissima - via Magenta 31 - 10128
Turin, Italy
Chris Sharp Gallery is pleased to present a solo booth of the Los Angeles-based artist, David Gilbert.
David Gilbert’s photography can be situated in the unique crossroads of sculpture, drawing, painting, assemblage, installation, and image reproduction. Using these various media, Gilbert stages and photographs mise-en-scènes in the studio which variously and indeterminately read as traces of action, aftermath, something in progress, or finally, some kind of incident, accidentally perceived. Characterized by a sense of open-ended mystery and adumbration, the work willfully embraces ambiguity as a generative, queer position.
For his solo presentation at Artissima, Gilbert presents a survey of 10 works dating from 2017 to 2023. The survey concentrates on his small-scale photos, all of which are framed without glazing and offer viewers the opportunity to peak voyeuristically into his intimate and carefully crafted universe.
David Gilbert (b.1982, New York) lives and works in Los Angeles. David Gilbert received his MFA from UC Riverside (2011) and his BFA from The Department of Photography and Imaging at Tisch, NYU (2004). His work has been shown nationally and internationally including solo exhibitions at Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery, New York; Chris Sharp Gallery, Los Angeles; Rebecca Camacho Presents, San Francisco; 12.26, Dallas; Del Vaz Projects and The Finley, Los Angeles. His work is in the permanent collection of LACMA and has been written about in Artforum, The New York Times, The New Yorker, Art in America, XTRA Magazine, BOMB, and Art Review. The first museum survey of his work will open in April 2024 at the North Carolina Museum of Art, Winston-Salem.
Window Frame, 2023. Archival inkjet print, 13 x 8.6 in (33.02 x 21.59 cm)
Foot, 2023. Archival inkjet print, 13 x 8.6 in (33.02 x 21.59 cm)
Solar System, 2023. Archival inkjet print, 13 x 8.6 in (33.02 x 21.59 cm)
Heavenly Body, 2023. Archival inkjet print, 13 x 8.6 in (33.02 x 21.59 cm)
Perch, 2020. Archival inkjet print, 13 x 8.6 in (33.02 x 21.59 cm)
Hereafter, 2022. Archival inkjet print, 13 x 8.5 in (33.02 x 21.59 cm)
Dark Tree, 2017. Archival inkjet print, 13 x 8.6 in (33.02 x 21.59 cm)
Wildflowers, 2023. Archival inkjet print, 13 x 8.6 in (33.02 x 21.59 cm)
Blonde Streak, 2017. Archival inkjet print, 13 x 8.6 in (33.02 x 21.59 cm)
Anything Goes, 2018. Archival inkjet print, 13 x 8.6 in (33.02 x 21.59 cm)