Daniel Gibson grew up in the border town of El Centro, five minutes north of Mexicali, Baja Mexico. His work is made from charcoal, sumi ink, and watercolor pencil on canvas. The scenes in his works intermingle abstracted human figures, elements of nature, objects, and occasionally small narratives to a dream-like end. These narrative based scenes range in their depth, from sketchy renditions to bold brush strokes. There is an honest and sincere quality to these "drawings as paintings" and a strong command of the materials Gibson uses. His work embraces a painterly gesture that is unique to the work with a push and pull, enter and exit, from abstraction to figuration. Gibson currently lives and works in his Los Angeles, Chinatown studio.
