Gommaar Gilliams at De Buck Gallery, New York

Gommaar Gilliams at De Buck Gallery, New York

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.