De Buck Gallery is pleased to present an exclusive preview of our new viewing room selections, which will be available at the gallery during the spring season. Our selection includes work by Devan Shimoyama, Stephen Towns, Gommaar Gilliams, Marielle Plaisir, Tahnee Lonsdale and introducing works by Ronald Jackson and Hiba Schahbaz, whose solo exhibitions will follow later this spring. We will also introduce a number of new artists who underscore the gallery's growing commitment to supporting the legacy of fiber art and quilting including Ardeshir Tabrizi, Tina Williams Brewer, and Chiachio & Giannone. 

De Buck Gallery is delighted to announce Always Been Told, the second solo exhibition by Belgian artist, Gommaar Gilliams, at the gallery. Always Been Told will be on view from Thursday March 5 to Saturday March 28, 2020. An opening reception will be held at 507 W 27th Street, New York, on Thursday March 5, from 6-8 PM.

Always Been Told invites the viewer into a lush, timeless world that is at once familiar and fantastical, a dreamlike utopia filled with longing. Melancholic and mystical, Gilliams’ paintings address themes of transition, duality, desire, and memory through iconography drawn from both European and Eastern storytelling. The pieces are assemblages of both oil and acrylic painting with moments of collaged fiber-work, combining varied materials that reference medieval tapestries.