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small panels | official website of american artist gary gissler

 

small panels

 

These works are ‘drawings’, some directly using ink or graphite in microscopic text, others including tape and paper. Using wood panels for their structure, immaculately gessoed and polished like marble, the work addresses a consistent interest in the fragility of language, how meaning is arrived at, how one narrative slips into another.

 
 
 
 

church and state and the brothers grimm, 2016

ink on paper, woven 12 x 12 in / 30.48 x 30.48 cm

church and state and the brothers grimm, detail

 
 
 

feelingly not quite, 2016

oil, tape, paper, ink on panel 12 x 12 in / 30.48 x 30.48 cm

feelingly not quite, detail

 
 
 

fantastic somatic, 2016

oil, tape, paper, ink on panel 12 x 12 in / 30.48 x 30.48 cm

fantastic somatic, detail

 
 
 

d.h., 2016

graphite on gessoed panel 12 x 12 in / 30.48 x 30.48 cm

d.h., detail

 
 
 

doubt, 2000

graphite on gessoed panel 8 x 8 in / 20.32 x 20.32 cm

doubt, detail

 
 
 

fuck, 2000

graphite on gessoed panel 8 x 8 in / 20.32 x 20.32 cm

fuck, detail

 
 
 

fuckingasshole, 2016

graphite on gessoed panel 8 x 8 in / 20.32 x 20.32 cm

fuckingasshole, detail

 
 
 

fuckingpainintheass, 2000

graphite on gessoed panel 8 x 8 in / 20.32 x 20.32 cm

fuckingpainintheass, detail

 

fuckthat, 1999

graphite on gessoed panel 8 x 8 in / 20.32 x 20.32 cm

fuckthis, 1999

graphite on gessoed panel 8 x 8 in / 20.32 x 20.32 cm

fuckthat, detail

 
 
 

fuckthelove, 1999

graphite on gessoed panel 8 x 8 in / 20.32 x 20.32 cm

fuckthelove, detail

 
 
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fucklust, 1999

graphite on gessoed panel 8 x 8 in / 20.32 x 20.32 cm

fucklust, 1999

 
 
 

uh, 2001

graphite on gessoed panel 8 x 8 in / 20.32 x 20.32 cm

uh, detail

 
 
 

to need a need, 2013

graphite on gessoed panel 8 x 8 in / 20.32 x 20.32 cm

to need a need, detail

 
 
 

you think you know, 2013

graphite on gessoed panel 8 x 8 in / 20.32 x 20.32 cm

 
 
 

do you know how to pony?, 2000

8 x 8 in / 20.32 x 20.32 cm

do you know how to pony?, detail

 
 
 

41+42, 2016

graphite on gessoed panel 16 x 16 in / 40.64 x 40.64 cm

transcription of chapters 41 and 42 of Moby Dick, text written with each word on top of the other

41+42, detail

 
 
 

footnote, 2016

paper on gessoed panel 8 x 8 in / 20.32 x 20.32 cm

footnote cut from of Moby Dick's chapter 42, "Whiteness of the Whale"

footnote, detail

 
 
 

babel, 2016

8 x 8 in / 20.32 x 20.32 cm

babel, detail

 
 
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zimmerman, 2015

paper, tape on gessoed panel 12 x 12 in / 30.48 x 30.48 cm

zimmerman, detail

 

phobias (diptych), 2015

graphite, varnish, tape on gessoed panel, two panels, each panel 8 x 8 in / 20.32 x 20.32 cm

a complete list of phobias with corresponding triggers

phobias, detail

phobias, detail

 
 
 

curves to the left, 2015

graphite, tape on gessoed panel, 8 x 8 in / 20.32 x 20.32 cm

curves to the left, detail

 
 
 

neuroticnarcissist, 2015

graphite on gessoed panel, 8 x 8 in / 20.32 x 20.32 cm

neuroticnarcissist, detail

 
 
 

dirtydirty, 2015

graphite, tape on gessoed panel, 8 x 8 in / 20.32 x 20.32 cm

dirtydirty, detail

 

this n' that, 2014

graphite, gouache on gessoed panel,

8 x 8 in / 20.32 x 20.32 cm

think think, 2014

graphite on gessoed panel,

12 x 12 in / 30.48 x 30.48 cm

 
 
 

blind alley, 2001

graphite, tape on gessoed panel, 8 x 8 in / 20.32 x 20.32 cm

blind alley, detail

 

sea, 2015

oil on panel, 12 x 12 in / 30.48 x 30.48 cm

moby, 2015

oil on panel,12 x 12 in / 30.48 x 30.48 cm

 
 
 

whiteboogie, 2015

linen, oil on panel, 12 x 12 in / 30.48 x 30.48 cm

whiteboogie, detail

 
 
 

hey joe, 2014

ink on gessoed panel, 8 x 8 in / 20.32 x 20.32 cm

hey joe, detail

 
 
 

i don't care, 2014

paper, tape, gouache, varnish on gessoed panel, 8 x 8 in / 20.32 x 20.32 cm