Jeffrey Gibson’s Guardian Animals Grace The Met’s Facade

Jeffrey Gibson’s Guardian Animals Grace The Met’s Facade

On an absolutely perfect day — warm but not hot, not a cloud in the bright blue sky — a giant bronze squirrel wearing what can only be described as acorn regalia looks out over an Upper East Side crowd with (literally) beady eyes.  It’s just one of the four 10-foot bronze sculptures that make up Mississippi Choctaw/Cherokee artist Jeffrey Gibson’s new facade commission at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, “The Animal That Therefore I Am.” Drawn fr…

City Life Org - Jeffrey Gibson’s Four New Sculptures for The Met’s Genesis Facade Commission Now on View

Installation view of The Genesis Facade Commission: Jeffrey Gibson, The Animal Therefore I Am. Image credit: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Photo by Eugenia Burnett Tinsley The site-specific sculptures are Gibson’s first large-scale works cast in bronze. The installation is the second under the multiyear partnership with Genesis to support the annual contemporary art commission. Exhibition…