Carole Gibbons | White Columns

Hales is delighted to announce that Carole Gibbons' first exhibition in the United States opens today at White Columns, running through 4 May 2024.

 

For over six decades, Gibbons has cultivated a distinctive painting practice rich with resonant colour and symbolism in a striking painterly language. She received early career success between the 1960s-1980s and was the first living woman to have a solo exhibition at Glasgow's Third Eye Centre in 1975. However, it has not been until recently that Gibbons has gained more widespread recognition. She has long been championed by artists Lucy Stein, Andrew Cranston, poet JF Hendry, writer Alasdair Gray, and art historian Susannah Thompson.

 

Her exhibition at White Columns, her first in the United States, takes the form of a focused survey of what she has described as her "post-mythological" period from the early 1970s to the present, and will be presented alongside a selection of works on paper and historical materials drawn from the artist's archives. At once familiar and utterly distinctive, Gibbons' work draws freely from both art history and the incidental poetry of everyday life. Her paintings are marked by a unique quality of attention that converges at the point where the universal meets the quotidian.