email: gbart001@gmail.com
Biography
Gary A. Bibb was born in Wichita, Kansas and studied architecture at Kansas State University but discovered art to be more compelling, therefore, he received his BFA in Visual Art from Emporia State University - Emporia, KS. In 2015 the artist developed a medical condition which rendered him completely blind in one eye. After numerous surgical procedures, thankfully, he has recovered some eyesight but remains quite impaired. Despite the difficulties, the artist attempts to share his artistic "vision". He currently resides in Denver, Colorado.
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The artist has exhibited both nationally and internationally. Furthermore, his art is represented in private and corporate collections along with being archived in the following museums and institutions:
Longview Museum of Fine Art - Longview, TX; Museum of Modern Art – New York, NY; Los Angeles County Museum of Art - Los Angeles, CA; Museu Brasileiro da Escultura - Sao Paulo, Brazil; Museum of Modern Art: UK - Machylleth, Wales; The Shimamoto Art Lab - Nishinomiya, Japan; The International Museum of Collage, Assemblage and Construction / Fluxmuseum - Santa Fe, NM; University of California, Santa Barbara, The Hoffberg Archive - Santa Barbara, CA; Ohio State University - Columbus, OH; The National Institute of Art - Buenos Aires, Argentina; Long Island University - Brookville, NY; The Black Mountain College Museum - Asheville, NC; Anne Arundel Community College, Fine Art Archive - Arnold, MD; The A. S. Popov Museum (Communication Art Collection) - St. Petersburg, Russia; University of Pannonia, Sziveri Janos Institute - Veszprem, Hungary; Cambrian College - Sudbury, Ontario, Canada; David Geffen School of Medicine (UCLA) - Los Angeles, CA; The Boyer Foundation - New York, NY; University of Wisconsin-Green Bay - Green Bay, WI; ASWARA (Nat’l Arts Academy) - Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; Karuizawa New Art Museum - Nagano, Japan; Keck School of Medicine (University of Southern California) - Los Angeles, CA; The Association of Visual Artists of Puerto Rico - San Juan, Puerto Rico; Islip Art Museum - East Islip, NY (Long Island)
PUBLISHED ART REVIEWS:
THE Magazine (Santa Fe, NM) - June 2015: click here
Curator Magazine (NY, NY) - July 2014: click here
GARY A. BIBB ART EXHIBIT RESUME: click here
GARY A. BIBB ART EXHIBIT BLOG: click here
International Exhibit Nations:
Argentina, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China, Croatia, Cypress, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Lithuania, Malaysia, Netherlands, Russia, Slovenia, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Syria, Taiwan, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom (UK), United States (USA)
CURATORIAL
PROJECTS:
Remarques – An International Art Collaboration
Selected international artists were invited to participate in a special 2014 collaborative project
where Gary A. Bibb (aka Jack the Hack) created a digital collage “base layer” which
was then transmitted to the participating artists. Their challenge was to digitally
add visual elements to the base, bring it to resolution and then return the completed
artworks. The resulting collaborations have been published on the designated website:
jackthehack-remarques.blogspot.com. This project is a celebration and testament to those artists' collaborative spirit.
The Guitar
Art Project
In 2013 Gary A. Bibb
conceived an exhibition project where 30 international artists were invited to
create small artworks exploring the visually diverse theme of the guitar. The first installment of the project was
exhibited at Buffalo Brothers Guitars – Carlsbad, CA - September 2013. A website was created for the project: guitarartbbg.blogspot.com
Public Art
Project
A 2011 – 2012 international
collaborative art project where Gary A. Bibb created 100 works of art which
were dispersed to global associates with the intent of having them installed in
public locations. Upon installation, the artworks were photographed in situ as
documentation and published on the project’s website: publicartists.blogspot.com
Fluxface in
Space
Gary A. Bibb
conceived and co-curated the 2010 – 2011 international art project where 127
artists from 26 nations participated in an exhibit commemorating space
exploration and the NASA Space Shuttle program. Images of the original
artworks, along with self-portraits of the artists, were launched into orbit
onboard 2 of the final 3 Shuttle missions: STS-133, Discovery, February 2011
and STS-134, Endeavour, May 2011.
Exhibitions of the
project have been featured at Fluxfest Chicago - Museum of Contemporary Art,
Chicago, IL and the Ft. Worth Community Art Center, Ft Worth, TX with
additional exhibits being scheduled.
The Fluxface in Space project websites: fluxfaceinspace.blogspot.com and wix.com/fluxfaceinspace/exhibit
The Fluxface in Space project websites: fluxfaceinspace.blogspot.com and wix.com/fluxfaceinspace/exhibit
Confluence
A 2009 collaborative
art project/exhibition featured at Space Gallery, Denver, Colorado. The concept
was conceived by Gary A. Bibb, where the artist, along with associate artist
Carlene Frances, created 100 small artworks (50 each) depicting their similar
and divergent artistic paths which converged in this project.
Confluence website: bibbandfrancesart.blogspot.com