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Friends' disparate styles interact in 'Residual
Memory' at Arvada Center
March/2007/
By Mary Voelz Chandler, Rocky Mountain News
March 12, 2007
Marie E.v.B. Gibbons and Jimmy Sellars would seem to be unlikely art-world soul mates. Gibbons, 51, was born and grew up on Long Island, and developed a deep and abiding love for the ocean that informs her work in clay and her interest in teaching. Sellars, 37, hails from Independence, Mo., the son of artists who fell under the sway of G.I. Joe dolls as a kid and has used them as the engine that drives his photo-based work on issues of gender and sexuality.
But friends they are, having studios about half a block apart in the Tennyson Street Cultural District, and for the past few years having shown together often despite the disparate nature of their work, as well as in individual exhibitions. Gibbons moved to Colorado in 1977, and Sellars more than a decade later. (The E.v.B., by the way, stands for Elizabeth von Bielefeld, Gibbons' middle and birth names, and the name of her studio.)
On view now is "Residual Memory," an umbrella title for two solos at the Arvada Center that pull from the artists' backgrounds. Gibbons and Sellars also will show together for the third time at Pirate: contemporary art in June, and share thoughts - if not space - as participants selected for the Cherry Creek Arts Festival in July.