About Gavin Weir
Gavin Weir is an artist living and working in Yardley, Pennsylvania. He received his BFA with an emphasis in painting from Grand Valley State University in Allendale, Michigan in 2021. Since graduating he has continued making paintings, drawings and sculptures that depict broken-down fictional worlds and comment on the shared experiences of all life. He has spent time in Denver, Colorado where he worked as a studio assistant for Public Artist, David Ocelotl Garcia. He has assisted David with sculptures, murals, and most notably the Two Bridges Public Art Project in Denver. In 2022 Gavin became a member of the Artnauts collective, showing work internationally. The Artnauts is an artist collective that uses the visual arts as a tool for addressing global issues while connecting with artists from around the world.
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Artist Statement
I am interested in creating broken-down fictional worlds that comment on the shared experiences of all life. In my paintings, drawings, and sculptures I present dramatic scenes that address natural relationships and impending doom. The goal of my work, regardless of medium, is to create an experience for the viewer that stays with them beyond the gallery, leaving them with both revelations and questions about our relationships with each other and the natural world as well as the existential threats that we face.
I work with a broad array of mediums and explore many methods of making. I am interested in the relationship that exists between my 2-D and 3-D work, and how various areas of my practice influence each other. It is important to me as an artist to create a believable world for people to enjoy and lose themselves in. I often develop every element of this world by creating props, taking reference photos, and inventing backstories and meaning to better inform my work and create a believable fiction.
My recent body of work is a series of slow repeating dramas that uses symbolism and pattern to create a loose sense of narrative. The work uses symbolism to confront ideas of good and evil, ambiguity, and duality. I often present the relationship between good and evil as tense, obscure, and undefined. This tension is present all around us, and even within us demanding a closer look. The figures are depicted cloaked with colorful fabrics that sometimes obscure the figures’ face to create a sense of ambiguity and unknowing. My work contrasts ideas of good and evil, animate and inanimate, and knowing and unknowing as a means of creating a world that is both beautiful and horrible.
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