Join Soapbox Arts for the last opening event of the year, Will Gebhard’s solo painting show “So It Goes.” Will created the beautiful mural on the Soda Plant exterior that was commissioned during the 2019 Art Hop.
Gebhard’s most recent paintings in acrylic elevate the nagging insecurities and banalities of everyday existence to subjects worthy of aggrandized abstraction. Gebhard reduces figures and objects to their most essential geometric forms only to further minimize contextual cues by rearranging, bending, and ultimately intertwining the warped shapes into layered labyrinths of slick contours and bold colors. With an affinity for primary hues, Gebhard takes full advantage of the power of a limited palette. At once snapshots of past experiences, perceptions of the present, and ruminations on possible futures, Will Gebhard's paintings present a visual narrative of the social current we float within on a daily basis, willingly or otherwise.