David gilbert artist biography

          Born in Uxbridge and died in North Wales After reading English at Cambridge he lived briefly in Cornwall, London and Sweden.

          Born and bred in London, I have previously lived and worked in East Africa and Central America as well as in Scotland.!

          David Gilbert

          David Gilbert photographs precarious, delicate situations in his studio, leaving us to wonder how long until a teetering installation collapses once his camera snaps a photo.

          His work straddles a line between documentation and portraiture: an accumulation of materials that feel personified support each other in various stages of their (still-) life cycles. Each frame captures the moment before unraveling.

          David Gilbert (b.

        1. David Gilbert is an American Postwar & Contemporary artist who was born in Their work is currently being shown at Noon Projects in Los Angeles.
        2. Born and bred in London, I have previously lived and worked in East Africa and Central America as well as in Scotland.
        3. Living briefly in Cornwall, Cambridge and Sweden, but mostly in London.
        4. Born and bred in London, I have previously lived and worked in East Africa and Central America as well as in Scotland.

          5. He explores the life span of commonplace materials such as paper-towel rolls and bits of cardboard, fabric, and string; tracing their presence from situation to situation, as the detritus from one installation is revived obliquely in another.

          The materials live on capable of having several lives and incarnations simultaneously: as sculpture, as photograph, as jpeg.  Gilbert makes sculpture as a photographer, tactile yet flat, making reference to how we see images today: online, on screens, where they are perpetually refreshed and seen anew.


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