Jerrell Gibbs

Jerrell Gibbs’s bright, contemplative portraits of Black sitters thrum with a vivid sense of place. The Baltimore-based artist renders his subjects and their backgrounds—which range from intimate domestic settings to lush natural landscapes—with an equal sense of care. He imbues every brushstroke with a sense of emotional and personal specificity. Gibbs, who received his MFA from the LeRoy E. Hoffberger School of Painting in 2020, has exhibited in Baltimore, Berlin, Chicago, and Los Angeles, and his work is in multiple collections, including the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Columbus Museum of Art, the X Museum in Beijing, and the CC Foundation in Shanghai. Gibbs often works from Polaroids, transforming specific, banal moments into scenes of powerful emotional resonance.