Rene Gibson
ArtistUSA
About Artist:
Throughout her art career, Rene Gibson has been motivated and inspired by three things; nature, combining many, very small pieces to create a larger piece and bringing something back to 'life'. For the past decade, Rene has taken ordinary animal skulls and transformed them into beautiful pieces of art using Swarovski crystals, beads, gemstones, smalti and various other mixed media elements. The joy for Rene is to contrast what people may consider to be ugly with beauty. Bringing out the inherent beauty of each animal is my way to honor the spirit of the animal. With an undergraduate degree in interior design, the Pennsylvania native creates pieces with an awareness of how they would be incorporated into a client's home. As such, the patterns and color combinations she uses are considerate of an interior design perspective. While living in Ireland, Rene earned a Master's of Philosophy in Women's Studies from Trinity College Dublin. Upon returning to the United States, she began to focus more on creating art rather than interior design. After a breast cancer diagnosis, Rene turned her work from skulls to Swarovski, recently completing a ten foot marlin covered in approximately 100,000 Swarovski crystals. Lucky Mike has been recently featured in Marlin Magazine and the Palm Beach Post. While most of Rene's sales are to private collectors, both domestic and international, two of her skulls have been shown on the Food Network's Restaurant Impossible show, Cap'n and the Cowboy episode. She has exhibited at the Western Design Conference 2012 in Jackson Hole, WY and her work has been featured in several publications including Western Art and Architecture, Cowboys and Indians, Palm Beach Illustrated, Cowgirl, Marlin Magazine, Palm Beach Post, Elle (Belgium Edition) and the web edition of Vogue Paris to name a few. Rene, a mother of three, lives in Florida and is currently working on new projects using Swarovski crystals.
About Artwork:
My subjects usually call to me and Lucky Mike is no exception. I had recently completed several small items using crystals and, while shopping one day, I spotted Mike and knew he had to be my next creation.
Rene Gibson
Lucky Mike
- 2019
- 120 x 55 inches
- Fine Art Category: sculptures
- Medium: Mixed Media
- Origin: USA
- Certificate of Authenticity: yes
- Provenance: I am the artist.
- Signed: Not signed
- Comments:
Over 100,000 Swarovski crystals cover this ten foot marlin, each one placed one at a time.
36 different colors were used, including 13 special coatings.
Lucky Mike has been featured in Marlin Magazine and was on exhiition at The Lighthouse Center for the Arts in Tequesta, FL.
Prefer to ship within the United States, but will consider shipping to other countries.
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- Price: $125,000.00 USD
- Seller: Rene Gibson, USA
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- Artplode ID: 6223
- Artplode Seller ID: 14121
About Artist:
Throughout her art career, Rene Gibson has been motivated and inspired by three things; nature, combining many, very small pieces to create a larger piece and bringing something back to 'life'. For the past decade, Rene has taken ordinary animal skulls and transformed them into beautiful pieces of art using Swarovski crystals, beads, gemstones, smalti and various other mixed media elements. The joy for Rene is to contrast what people may consider to be ugly with beauty. Bringing out the inherent beauty of each animal is my way to honor the spirit of the animal. With an undergraduate degree in interior design, the Pennsylvania native creates pieces with an awareness of how they would be incorporated into a client's home. As such, the patterns and color combinations she uses are considerate of an interior design perspective. While living in Ireland, Rene earned a Master's of Philosophy in Women's Studies from Trinity College Dublin. Upon returning to the United States, she began to focus more on creating art rather than interior design. After a breast cancer diagnosis, Rene turned her work from skulls to Swarovski, recently completing a ten foot marlin covered in approximately 100,000 Swarovski crystals. Lucky Mike has been recently featured in Marlin Magazine and the Palm Beach Post. While most of Rene's sales are to private collectors, both domestic and international, two of her skulls have been shown on the Food Network's Restaurant Impossible show, Cap'n and the Cowboy episode. She has exhibited at the Western Design Conference 2012 in Jackson Hole, WY and her work has been featured in several publications including Western Art and Architecture, Cowboys and Indians, Palm Beach Illustrated, Cowgirl, Marlin Magazine, Palm Beach Post, Elle (Belgium Edition) and the web edition of Vogue Paris to name a few. Rene, a mother of three, lives in Florida and is currently working on new projects using Swarovski crystals.
About Artwork:
My subjects usually call to me and Lucky Mike is no exception. I had recently completed several small items using crystals and, while shopping one day, I spotted Mike and knew he had to be my next creation.
