Brent Gibb Bio:
Brent has had a love of drawing and painting since he was a child. Thankfully, through the public school system, he was able to take numerous art classes during his junior high and high school years.
While attending CSU Sacramento to obtain his Bachelor of Science degree, he was able to take a variety of art classes. During his senior year, he met noted artist Stephen Kaltenbach while enrolled in an Air Brush Painting class. Stephen became Gibb’s mentor and continued to encourage Gibb over the many years since his graduation from Sac State.
With a subtle minimalistic approach, Gibb creates work in which a fascination with the clarity of content and an uncompromising attitude towards conceptual and minimal art can be found. The work is aloof and systematic, and a cool and neutral imagery is used. His works feature coincidental, accidental, and unexpected connections, which lead to surprising analogies.
He characterizes his painting by the use of everyday objects in an atmosphere of middleclass mentality, in which recognition plays an important role. By taking daily life as subject matter while commenting on the everyday aesthetic of middle class values, he often creates work using creative game tactics, but these are never permissive. Play is a serious matter: during the game, different rules apply than in everyday life, and even everyday objects undergo transformation. Brent’s philosophy mirrors Scott Adams’ quote: “Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.”