Mack Gingles

Associate Professor of Art

Drawing

BIO
Mack Gingles joined the Department of Art & Art History in 2011. His narrative paintings have been exhibited widely across the United States and abroad. His work has been shown in Pärnu, Estonia, the Museum of Modern Fine Arts in Minsk, Belarus, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Skopje, Macedonia, the Cvijeta Zuzoric in Belgrade, Serbia, and the Czong Institute for Contemporary Art Museum in Gimpo-si, South Korea. He has been selected for 5 solo exhibitions and more than 70 group exhibitions by notable curators, artists, art critics, and other professionals from around the world. Among these was an exhibition through the London Celeste Prize and publication through the circulated New American Paintings.

MFA, Louisiana State University
BFA, Louisiana Tech University
BFA, Louisiana Tech University

ARTIST STATEMENT
I am driven to address climate change and how it is rapidly affecting the world we know. My work explores the distance between knowing and not knowing through narrative fiction. The By a Thread series is a surreal space where people and animals wade through the flood waters of a broken planet. The inhabitants of this place search aimlessly for a way to rest as delirium sets in and a new dialog begins. Life after the high water is absurd to be sure, but I insist on depicting it nonetheless with braided thread. “You must go on. I can’t go on. I’ll go on.” - Samuel Beckett, The Unnamable