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  • Multi-patterned, brightly colored, and tasseled shirt hanging on a wooden stick against a white background with machinery attached to its bottom. The floor is also shown.
  • Side view of the hanging garment with no machinery attached. Long green, blue, and orange tassels hang alongside the left and right edges of the garment.
  • Multi-patterned, brightly colored, and tasseled shirt hanging on a wooden stick against a white background with machinery attached to its bottom. The floor is also shown.
  • Detail of the garment’s pattern. The words “STAND YOUR GROUND” are printed in red-yellow gradients. There are rows of wooden teardrops attached to the pattern with beaded strings.

Jeffrey Gibson

The Anthropophagic Effect, Garment no. 1
Now On View

Maker

Jeffrey Gibson (American: Mississippi Band of Choctaw/Cherokee, b. 1972 in Colorado)

Title

The Anthropophagic Effect, Garment no. 1

Year

2019

Medium

  • canvas,
  • cotton,
  • Vinyl,
  • brass grommets,
  • nylon thread,
  • artificial sinew,
  • dried pear gourds,
  • glass beads,
  • plastic beads,
  • birch,
  • porcupine quills,
  • and nylon ribbon

Materials/Techniques

Techniques

  • Canvas,
  • cotton,
  • Vinyl,
  • brass grommets,
  • nylon thread,
  • artificial sinew,
  • dried pear gourds,
  • glass beads,
  • plastic beads,
  • birch,
  • porcupine quills,
  • and nylon ribbon

Dimensions

147.3 x 182.9 cm (58 x 72 inches)

Credit / Object Number

Credit

Helen M. Danforth Acquisition Fund

Object Number

2019.56

Type

  • Sculpture

Exhibition History

Art and Design from 1900 to Now
Jun 04, 2022 – Sep 01, 2026

Label copy

Jeffrey Gibson tackles issues of North American colonialism and postcolonial mindsets by focusing on materiality, human agency, and Indigenous and Queer activism in his artwork. In this piece, dried gourds, glass beads, and sinew reference powwow regalia, but in a contemporized form and scale. Gibson uses porcupine quills on the sleeves and also incorporates fabric printed with a quill pattern on the ground. The electric palette of neon oranges, yellows, pinks, and greens draws from Gibson’s Mississippi Choctaw and Cherokee heritage, as well as from 1980s and 1990s Queer culture. The repeated text on the front body of the garment, “Stand Your Ground,” references American state policies that give residents the right to use guns when feeling threatened.

-Yukti Agarwal, Brown/RISD Dual Degree 2024, Contemplative Studies/Textiles/THAD

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Jeffrey Gibson (American: Mississippi Band of Choctaw/Cherokee, b. 1972 in Colorado)
The Anthropophagic Effect, Garment no. 1, 2019
Canvas, cotton, vinyl, brass grommets, nylon thread, artificial sinew, dried pear gourds, glass beads, plastic beads, birch, porcupine quills, and nylon ribbon
147.3 x 182.9 cm (58 x 72 inches)
Helen M. Danforth Acquisition Fund 2019.56

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