Based in a tradition of collage, Jim Gaylord’s current work is made from heavy paper that is cut out and pieced together into relief-like pictures. The imagery is derived from film stills, geometry and pictorial iconography, manipulated digitally and through drawings to create new compositions. The results are uncanny abstractions with traces of figuration that point toward multiple narrative directions.
Gaylord received his MFA from the University of California, Berkeley, and a BA in Film from the University of North Carolina, Greensboro. His work has been exhibited internationally and is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the West Collection and the Progressive Art Collection. He has completed residencies at MacDowell and Yaddo, and received grants from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Joan Mitchell Foundation and the Pollock-Krasner Foundation. He is represented by Jeff Bailey Gallery in Hudson, NY, and Gregory Lind Gallery in San Francisco. Gaylord lives and works in Brooklyn.
