Jerrell Gibbs: No Solace in the Shade Home Dread Scott

Dread Scott

has become one of that era’s most defining documents

with each image offering the reader an opportunity for deep contemplation and introspection

function and aesthetics

Jerrell Gibbs: No Solace in the Shade Home Dread ScottThe first major publication on Baltimore based painter Jerrell Gibbs, whose contemplative portraits of Black sitters thrum with a vivid sense of place and reflect the complexity and emotional depth of everyday Black life. This book captures a prolific period of self examination and observation for contemporary artist Jerrell Gibbs (b. 1988). Known for his luminously rendered, expressionistic oil paintings, Gibbs uses the figure as a dynamic and