215 | 610 Contemporary: Juried Exhibition of Regional Emerging Artists
Juror's Talk by Mark Thomas Gibson • Tuesday, November 28, 2023
Join us for the exhibition reception and Juror's Talk on Tuesday, November 28. Meet the juror and artists included in the 215|610 CONTEMPORARY Exhibition and attend a lecture by this year's juror Mark Thomas Gibson, a Philadelphia-based visual artist working in drawing, painting, print and sculpture, who has most recently been awarded a 2022 Guggenheim Fellowship and a Louis Comfort Tiffany Biennial Grant.
Juror's Talk at 4:00 p.m. featuring juror Mark Thomas Gibson
In-Person: Large Auditorium | Marple Campus (reservations strongly recommended)
Streaming: Via Zoom (reservations required)
Exhibition Reception immediately after Juror's Talk
Art Gallery | Room 2305
Free | Refreshments will be served.
About the Juror:
Mark Thomas Gibson's (b. 1980, Miami, FL) personal lens on American culture stems from his multipartite viewpoint as an artist, a professor, and an American history buff. These myriad and often colliding perspectives fuel his exploration of contemporary culture through the language of painting and drawing, revealing a vision of America where every viewer is implicated as a potential character within the story.
In 2016, Gibson co-curated the traveling exhibition Black Pulp! with William Villalongo at 32 Edgewood Gallery, Yale School of Art. The show examined evolving perspectives of Black identity in American culture and history from 1912 to 2016 through printed media and artworks. Gibson released his first book, Some Monsters Loom Large in 2016 with funding from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts. Gibson’s second book Early Retirement was released in 2017 with Edition Patrick Frey in Zurich and was acquired by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
In 2021, Gibson was awarded residencies at Yaddo and the Elizabeth Murray Artist Residency as well as a Fellowship from the Pew Center for Arts and Heritage, Philadelphia, PA and a Hodder Fellowship from the Lewis Center for the Arts, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ. In 2022, Gibson was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship from the Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, New York, NY and in February 2023 he had his most recent solo exhibition Whirylgig! at Sikkema & Jenkins Co. Mark Thomas Gibson is represented by M+B, (Los Angeles, CA) and Loyal, (Stockholm, Sweden). He is currently an Assistant Professor of Painting at Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Temple University and lives and works in Philadelphia, PA.
About the Exhibition: The Gallery at Delaware County Community College presents the annual 215|610 CONTEMPORARY Juried Exhibition, featuring the work of regional emerging artists living in and around the Philadelphia area. The 2023 exhibition is juried by Mark Thomas Gibson, a Philadelphia-based artist and educator, and will be presented in-person in the Art Gallery November 13–December 15, 2023. The purpose of this juried exhibition is to showcase local emerging contemporary artists, create a platform for critical discourse through an exchange of ideas, and to push the boundaries of an age-old practice. In addition to the exhibition, we invite the juror to lecture about their personal work and practice. The Juror's Talk is free and open to the public, and is presented in the large auditorium on the College’s Marple Campus.