About
Artist Statement
My paintings usually begin with a surface and a set of intuitive decisions. Acrylic often opens the ground quickly, letting an image form without becoming too precious too early. As the space develops, I slow down and listen for what the painting is trying to hold.
Figures, action figures, and fragments of representation often enter the work during that pause. Their level of detail changes from piece to piece, but they tend to act as witnesses inside a field of movement, pressure, and structure.
The final stage is often built in oil. That slower material lets different visual languages meet: loose marks, sharper forms, atmosphere, and figuration. Many works explore the tension between chaos and structure, inner and outer perception, and the ways identity can be read differently from the inside and outside.
Bio
Jacob Giberson is an artist working across painting and selected project-based work. His studio practice centers on layered surfaces, figurative interruptions, and the psychological charge that appears when abstraction and representation share the same space.
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