Bobby Gilbreath

"No action is needed here. Rather, the movement of which Einstein speaks is the acknowledgment that time (in all its phases) is on our side and our only action is to recognize our presence as the divine overseer of our experience."

Fascination with nature is universal. We adore, worship, and stand in awe of nature. We come from it, and eventually we return to it. Nature provides us with some of the most beautiful phenomena. However we encounter them everyday, though we are too caught up in the experience of our lives and fail to recognize them. Think of mountains and cracks in the sidewalk, of synapses, of lightning – think of cells, of viruses, and the images of far off solar systems – of fungi, of smoke, of the bark of a tree, of a flock of birds – the pattern of water, oil, and of natural growth – think of the macro and the micro, they aren’t that different. This invisible, organic pattern that guides everything is tantamount to my work and I strive to bring light to it; whether in concept, in detail, or as the end all.

I challenge the viewers to reflect upon and expand their own field of questioning and experience; to realize that everything is connected and everything matters, to realize the connection between the inter...

Education
2016, BFA, Herron School of Art and Design, Indianapolis, IN
2010‐2011, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

Solo Exhibitions
2015, You’re Your You: An Evening with the Universal Collective, Indy Indie Artist Colony,
Indianapolis, IN
2014, Flora, Indy Indie Artist Colony, Indianapolis, IN
2014, Flora, Harrison Center, Indianapolis, IN
2013, No Place like Home, Hank & Dolly’s Gallery, Indianapolis, IN
2012, This Must Be the Place, 3 Mass Gallery, Indianapolis, IN
2011, I Was a Lover Before This War, Hank & Dolly’s Gallery, Indianapolis, IN
2011, Paid Vacation on a Tangent Universe, Wake Gallery, Indianapolis, IN
2010, Veni Vidi Vici, BETA Gallery, Indianapolis, IN
2010, Science versus Romance, Harrison Center for the Arts, Indianapolis, IN
2009, Memories from the Future, Murphy Arts Center, Indianapolis, IN
2009, Everything is Everything is Everything, Harrison Center for the Arts, Indianapolis, IN

Group Exhibitions
2015, 2015 Juried Undergraduate Exhibition, Herron School of Art & Design, Indianapolis, IN (Juror Scott Stulen)
2015, generic, McCalla School of Fine Arts, Bloomington, IN
2015, Monsters, Myths and Mayhem, Indy Indie Artist Colony, Indianapolis, IN
2014, Magnificent Amber, Harrison Center for the Arts, Indianapolis, IN
2014, HATCH: New Midwestern Art,...