Virtual Gallery: Danny J. Gibson’s “Mouth Breathing at the Wick to the Apocalypse”

A Word from CTJ:

My very good friend Danny J. Gibson has done it again. This March, he wants to land his flying art saucer in your head-space and set up an outpost there. Enjoy this virtual gallery, and consider it a foretaste of what you will experience in the event that you should be wise enough to see Danny’s exhibit in person.

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Event information and a word about the exhibit from Danny himself below. Enjoy his idiosyncratic writing style and, above all else, his art.

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“Mouth Breathing at the Wick to the Apocalypse”

Art Exhibition by Danny Joe Gibson

Opening: Kansas City – First Friday – March 2, 2012

1819 Central Event Space + Gallery

1819 Central St. Kansas City, MO USA 64108

http://1819central.com/

contact@1819central.com

816.200.3417

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“Every living thing has a date of expiration. When that date comes, I believe, is in much bigger hands as well as with a personal healthy dose of daily walk and decision. And Lord knows we’re all trying to put the wicks out to something we have to face, large or small, Earth or individual. We love to control, alter, even bring about things. Let’s all truly breathe and make space instead of picking up the pace and filling up our pants. All of this also goes towards those who stand around waiting for things to happen on an individual level. I don’t know, life is about balance. I struggle every day.

People are so focused on 2012 predictions and doom ‘n’ gloom when life is still in the now. For those wishing to sidestep the recent holiday cheer, there was even an ‘Armageddon Week’ during Christmas on the History Channel. Yeah, fascinating, but let’s not over do it. If this is our last official year, then let’s just take one long holiday! Who knows? I don’t think any man truly does. But, when that day comes we will be there with the cameras rolling, breathing heavily, awaiting to capture and recapture a thing that we’ll either be too dead to see or won’t have the grid or battery power to reconnect with.

This all sort of fits into my exhibition title ‘Mouth Breathing at the Wick to the Apocalypse.’ It also just speaks for the body of work I’ve been creating the past year, perhaps many years. I don’t aim to alarm or hoover heavily. If anything, the spirit in the art is quite jovial and optimistic. Per usual, I want people to have a soak and smile. Some of the ideas initialized in a 2002 sketchbook I did as a janitor as well as writings over the past half decade. In the end, it just has a nice ring to it, don’t you think?”

- Danny Joe Gibson / Feb. 2012