Mark Thomas Gibson’s new paintings at Sikkema Jenkins & Co feature hands, feet and legs but no full figures, a selective focus that ominously suggests multiple players unknown to us and perhaps to each other. White hands clasp in prayer, proffer a rope-bound fist or a broken wristwatch while a solitary Black hand holds a critical theory text by Achille Mbembe about democracy under threat. All the while, menacing cartoonish whistles sound their warnings amid a leaking system of pipes in a cacophonous mele that seems about to explode. (On view through March 11th).
