Timothy Taylor Gallery

Based on the tourist ‘snaps’ of iconic cityscapes, Ewan Gibbs painstakingly transforms the familiar into meditative grisaille drawings. Working reductively, Gibbs’s works reference early modern movements such as Pointillism: it is only from a distance that the eye is able to fully comprehend these crisp and familiar scenes whilst on closer inspection, the cohesion is interrupted by the evidence of the artist’s careful hand. Initially working from ‘ready-made’ scenes in holiday brochures of hotel rooms and the facades of city hotels, Gibbs now predominantly works from his own photographs using precise and pixel-like marks on a grid to create these distinctly contemporary works.

Born in 1973, Gibbs graduated from Goldsmiths College of Art in 1996. He has exhibited internationally with recent solo exhibitions including Chicago, Richard Grey Gallery, Chicago; Ewan Gibbs, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London (2008); Pictures of Pitchers, Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin, Texas (2008) and New York, Paul Morris Gallery, New York (2007). Group exhibitions have included Attention to Detail (curated by Chuck Close), The FLAG Art Foundation, New York (2008); Agnes Martin, Vija Celmins and Ewan Gibbs, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London (2006); Originality and Repetition: the Grid in Contemporary Works on Paper, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas (2005) and Surfacing, Contemporary Drawing, the ICA, London (1998). More recently, Gibbs was chosen as the artist to represent the Armory show in March 2009 and was commissioned by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art to make a series of drawings based on the city and which are currently being exhibited as part of their 75th anniversary celebrations. Public collections include Tate Gallery, London; MoMA, New York; and The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas. Gibbs currently lives and works in Oxfordshire, UK.

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