JEFF GILLETTE 'Art in Action: Banksy Rat' (2022) Archival Pigment Print (AP)

JEFF GILLETTE 'Art in Action: Banksy Rat' (2022) Archival Pigment Print (AP)'Art in Action: Banksy Rat' by Jeff Gillette, 2022 A double homage to street art icon Banksy. A series of Artist Proof prints consigned directly from the artist. 20 x 16 Inches 50. 8 x 40. 6 Centimeters Archival pigment print on 290gsm Moab Entrada fine art paper. Limited Edition of 100 with 10 Artist Proofs (#AP 4 10) Individually hand signed and numbered by the artist. Includes artist signed 1xRUN COA. ARTIST BIO "I am from the suburbs of Detroit,

'Art in Action: Banksy Rat' by Jeff Gillette, 2022
A double-homage to street art icon Banksy.
A series of Artist Proof prints consigned directly from the artist.
20 x 16 Inches
50.8 x 40.6 Centimeters
Archival pigment print on 290gsm Moab Entrada fine art paper.
Limited Edition of 100 with 10 Artist Proofs (#AP 4-10)
Individually hand-signed and numbered by the artist.
Includes artist-signed 1xRUN COA.

ARTIST BIO

"I am from the suburbs of Detroit, Michigan. In the late 1980s I was a Peace Corps volunteer in Nepal for two years. During this two-year stint, I visited every major city in India, finding myself exploring the huge slums found there. On my return to home, I moved from the Mid-West to escape the snow to teach High School Art in Orange County, California. Since finishing my MFA at Cal State Fullerton, I have been exhibiting in galleries both at home and abroad.

My work is most often landscapes. A major portion of my output is paintings of slums of the developing world, where I often add an element of western cultural privilege (and oblivion) into settings of urban blight. Inspiration for what I call “Slumscapes” comes from first-hand experience travelling. Most often I return over and over to my favorite destination: India. In the vast poverty-stricken fringes of its vast megalopolises I trip out on how the economic disparities are obscenely extreme. I’ve been spending a lot of time in Mumbai slums: photographing, filming, creating Plein Aire paintings and creating interactive street art.

Besides depicting slums, my artwork portrays post-apocalyptic debris fields, landfills, and detritus-cluttered deserts. The Juxtaposition of Disney themes and beloved characters (i.e.: Mickey Mouse) with all these dystopias best conveys my personal views. Pondering contemporary social, political, economical and philosophical conundrums, I can’t help but feel absurdly helpless, pessimistic and humored about the future of Western Civilization…"

- Jeff Gillette