[Nuart Gallery]

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We are delighted to welcome US-based painter Jeff Gillette to Stavanger for his first Scandinavian solo exhibition.

A Fine Art Masters graduate from California State University, Jeff Gillette has been making collages featuring accoutrements of Disney culture for over two decades. Recently, he was brought to the world’s attention through his participation in Banksy’s 2015 Bemusement Park spectacular, Dismaland, even being credited as an inspiration for the show in some quarters.

Despite the seriousness of his observations, Gillette sees ironic and amusing juxtapositions that occur when Disney, corporate logos, and pop icons from consumer culture show up as building blocks of shanty settlement construction. 

His works reflect these ironies as well as add a playful dimension to art historical relationships: the addition of pop cultural references serving to sharpen the satirical stance of the message in his work, where everything is otherwise entropic and terrifying.

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Artist Statement

I travel to the most wretched places on earth for inspiration for my art: to third-world slums. From as recently as the spring of 2012 when I had a guide take me through the tiny, dark alleyways of Dharavi in Mumbai, India, all the way back to the late 1980’s when as a Peace Corps volunteer in Nepal, I visited all of India’s large cities and their megaslums. 

Besides India, I’ve ventured into favelas, barrios, bastis and shantytowns, experiencing urban blight in North Africa, Southeast Asia, Central and South America, Mexico and Bangladesh. Aside from the seething humanity, the suffering, the unfairness and cruelty of the slum is a strange beauty. The cacophony of filthy debris rising from oceans of garbage comprises an architecture of depravation and necessity. 

What emerges is a living environment of aesthetic wonder, spectacular visuals of space, color, form, and texture. These images, I re-create in the all too-realism of my “slumscape” artwork, in drawings, paintings, sculptures and installations.

- Jeff Gillette

[artfan2011]

Love that image - will it be a print

[Nuart Gallery]

Aug 23, 2016 10:21:18 GMT 1 artfan2011 said:

Love that image - will it be a print

Hmm, maybe 

[tab1]

Aug 23, 2016 11:06:45 GMT 1 Nuart Gallery said:

Aug 23, 2016 10:21:18 GMT 1 artfan2011 said:

Love that image - will it be a print

Hmm, maybe 

screen print if so, a  step up from the previous glicee prints!

[WOOF]

Hopefully he breaks out from doing only images of wastelands with different half-ripped billboards that reference banksy...

[Nuart Gallery]

A litte sneek peek..

Disneyland Castle 'Slumbay' 20" x 36" Acrylic and Collage on Canvas




'Disneyland Castle Landfill' 'Mice' 20" x 36" Acrylic and Collage on Canvas

[Daniel Silk]

Wow! Jeff Gillette seem to be on a bit of a world tour how many shows has he done since Dismaland I wonder?

[Nuart Gallery]

Jeff Gillette amazing 'Disneyland Castle Slum Landfill 'Telephone Poles' Acrylic and collage on canvas, 53 x 127 cm

[icesay]

Aug 23, 2016 10:21:18 GMT 1 artfan2011 said:

Love that image - will it be a print

Yes print release on the 8th I believe.

[Whitefish]

Aug 23, 2016 10:21:18 GMT 1 artfan2011 said:

Love that image - will it be a print

Artist: Jeff Gillette (US)
Medium: Gicleè on 100 % Conqueror Connoisseur cotton paper
Edition: 100
Size: 70 x 43,3 cm
Year: 2016
Description: Signed and numbered by the artist

Also a large format version

Artist: Jeff Gillette (US)
Medium: Gicleè on 100 % Conqueror Connoisseur cotton paper
Edition: 10
Size: 100 x 62,4 cm
Year: 2016
Description: Signed and numbered by the artist

To be released Thursday September 8th 19:00 CET (Local time Oslo)

[Nuart Gallery]

A hard hitting artist for the gentle launch of a major change over from Reed Projects Gallery to Nuart Gallery and Project Space, a not for profit dedicated to placing art in public space. Jeff Gillette launches this Thursday at kl1900. Join the celebration. All invited! EVENT PAGE

Print release at www.nuartgallery.no, Thursday 8th 19:00 CET (Local time Oslo) 

[sneib]

Looking forward to grab one of these

[Nuart Gallery]

Hi guys,

Check out the exhibition catalogue, here 

For all inquiries, [e-mail]  

[Nuart Gallery]

Dismayland NORD grand opening and print release tonight from 19:00. Welcome!

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[gmidd]

The new prints are available at nuartgallery.no if anyone is interested.

[nighthawk]

His stuff just doesn't do it for me. And it's a giclee

[lha]

Some images and coverage of last nights opening from Arrested Motion
arrestedmotion.com/2016/09/openings-jeff-gillette-dismayland-nord-nuart-gallery/

[cyberkid]

so many shows. that is boring. repeatedly this connection with dismaland...
his tshirt...



just my opinion...

[FЯ]

Sept 9, 2016 10:45:38 GMT 1 cyberkid said:

so many shows. that is boring. repeatedly this connection with dismaland...
his tshirt...



just my opinion...

It was his name though originally, Banksy re-appropriated it.

[Nuart Gallery]

Photos from opening night, taken by Laura Sutton and John Rodger

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link

[artfan2011]

Look`s like a great show, thanks for sharing the pictures!

[thisisanton]

We all know Jeff secretly has a yearly pass to Disneyland.