Avery Gibbes

Avery Gibbes is an artist based in Oshawa, Ontario and a graduate of OCAD University.  Working primarily in painting, his current art practice revolves around the continual creation and exploration of an imaginary alien world.  His work explores the idea of being an ‘outsider’ after entering a new environment, and does so by following a made-up story about a small population of humans that suddenly finds itself in an alien world.  The work follows these humans as they learn and grow within this world, and the paintings continuously explore and build the world within which this story is taking place.