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Daniel Gibson Devil's Wind

Opening on Mar 28, 2025 | Marquez Art Projects, Miami, FL, US

Marquez Art Projects is proud to present 'Devil’s Wind,' the first US institutional presentation for Los Angeles-based artist Daniel Gibson. The exhibition takes its title from the Tongva word for the Santa Ana Wind, and comprises a suite of newly commissioned paintings, which see Gibson’s dynamic approach to landscape and his studio practice at large, profoundly impacted by the devastation of the 2025 Los Angeles fires at the doorstep of his studio.

Gibson’s paintings are informed by his upbringing on the California border with Mexico, and his sense of place is inextricably tied to the harsh terrain that is the setting for migration at the Southern border to the United States. Also informing these landscapes are the contributions of Marsden Hartley and Georgia O’Keeffe, and a modernist tradition of sublime abstraction imbued with forbidding topographies and vast skies. These landscapes entail vast mesas, dry expanses, ominous valleys, and massive, dangerously sublime scale. In these images, flora and fauna—datura, hibiscus, sunflowers and butterflies—hover above the scene, anthropomorphic and improbable like sentinels.

In just the last months, as disaster ravaged Los Angeles, the fires in Altadena loomed above Gibson’s home, and smoke filled the air above his Chinatown studio. Trails across the mountains, used by the artist in his everyday life and representative of passage, were closed as the fires rapidly spread. The searing visuals of winds carrying flames across the city, the noxious aftermath of smoke and destruction experience of its impact led Gibson to consider the path forward for his home city, and inspire the works in 'Devil’s Wind.' In these canvases, a crimson fireball shaped like a desert flower blazes angrily above the horizon; plumes of smoke teem from fields of white flowers. Elsewhere, spiraling blooms hover like funeral wreaths.
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Selected artworks

  • Daniel Gibson,                                      Pear tree, 2025

    Daniel Gibson Pear tree, 2025

    Oil on linen
    199.4 x 228.6 cm - 78 1/2 x 90 in (unframed)
    203.2 x 232.4 cm - 80 x 91 1/2 in (framed)

  • Daniel Gibson,                                      Stucco tree debris, 2025

    Daniel Gibson Stucco tree debris, 2025

    Oil on linen
    139.7 x 180.3 cm
    55 x 71 in

  • Daniel Gibson,                                      Angel on Grandpa Oak’s branch, 2025

    Daniel Gibson Angel on Grandpa Oak’s branch, 2025

    Oil on linen
    180.3 x 139.7 cm - 71 x 55 in (framed)
    184.2 x 143.5 cm - 72 1/2 x 56 1/2 in (framed)

  • Daniel Gibson,                                      Angel over El Prieto, 2025

    Daniel Gibson Angel over El Prieto, 2025

    Oil on linen
    149.9 x 121.9 cm
    59 x 48 in

  • Daniel Gibson,                                      Open Sky, 2025

    Daniel Gibson Open Sky, 2025

    Oil on canvas
    149.9 x 121.9 cm - 59 x 48 in (unframed)
    153.7 x 125.7 cm - 60 1/2 x 49 1/2 in (framed)

  • Daniel Gibson,                                      Watch duty, 2025

    Daniel Gibson Watch duty, 2025

    Oil on linen
    149.9 x 121.9 cm - 59 x 48 in (unframed)
    153.7 x 125.7 cm - 60 1/2 x 49 1/2 in (framed)

  • Daniel Gibson,                                      Little lights on the hill, 2025

    Daniel Gibson Little lights on the hill, 2025

    Oil on linen
    63.5 cm x 81.3 - 25 x 32 in (unframed)
    67.3 x 85.1 cm - 26 1/2 x 33 1/2 in (framed)