‘Jerrell Gibbs: Come home with me’ | Exhibition Opening

“The Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA) invites visitors to experience a solo exhibition of new works by celebrated Baltimore-based artist Jerrell Gibbs. Featuring thirty-five paintings, Jerrell Gibbs: Come home with me draws on the artist’s life and memories to explore the universality of human experience. The exhibition evokes the home of the artist’s Aunt Ella as a vital site of gathering—revealing how moments of childhood joy, connections to family and friends, and a sense of home transcend the barriers between people. In a moment of deep national division, Come home with me is a powerful and poignant invitation to uplift and engage with what unites us.

Gibbs’s expressive, gestural paintings embrace the language of figuration and abstraction. The artist often draws inspiration from family photos to create works that reflect both elements of the original image and the emotive qualities of the moment it holds. Through painterly interpretation, Gibbs amplifies and hybridizes aspects of his source material to evoke particular feelings and draw the viewer into the complex nature of memory, as it is reshaped by time and experience. For Come home with me, Gibbs also expands his frame of reference to major European and American paintings by such artists as Jean Siméon Chardin, Jean-Honoré Fragonard, Henri Matisse, and Grant Wood. Reimagining elements of these works through his own lens, Gibbs captures the continuity that exists among artists and communities across time, place, and culture, and creates new entry points into his practice.” – The Baltimore Museum of Art

Programming for Come home with me includes a conversation featuring artist Jerrell Gibbs alongside distinguished art historian and curator Dr. Adrienne L. Childs on Thursday, September 17th, from 6:30 to 7:45 pm. This event is free to attend with registration. Click here to register.

Jerrell Gibbs: Come home with me will be on view from September 16, 2026, through May 2, 2027, at 10 Art Museum Drive, Baltimore, MD. For sales inquiries, please contact our Sales Director, Noel Bedolla, at [email protected] or by calling 410. 235. 3711.