Mark Thomas Gibson
Mark Thomas Gibson is an artist living and working in Philadelphia whose current exhibition Whirlygig is on view at Sikkema Jenkins & Co. NY, New York.
Acid yellow light creates an amber hue that glows from a large exterior window at PEEP. Inside, tire tracks mark the floor. The smell of rubber, buzzing noise—seemingly coming from the overhead fluorescent lights—and scattered tires transform the gallery into an all-night garage. The all-night garage typically looms in the distance, the only beacon of light in an otherwise dark Northern Philadelphia landscape. In Jonathan Santoro’s “garage” there is a sense that something is being dismantled, rather than being repaired.
