A year ago, Jeffrey Gibson made a splash in Venice, said in Bloomberg . The city's Art Biennale is "not known for its crowds," because the event's many exhibitions are so spread out. But Gibson had been chosen to represent the U.S. in a solo show, making him the first Native American artist so honored, and the 52-year-old Colorado native transformed the U.S. pavilion into a major attraction, covering the "staid façade" with bright red panels and "vivid" geometric designs. Inside the pavilion, the show was "joyous, loud, and, unsurprisingly, a crowd-pleaser," and it has now been moved, nearly intact, to L.A. "Angelenos should consider themselves lucky that such a remarkable display has set up stateside," said Time Out . Gibson, who is gay, often incorporates into his work phrases fr

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