Art

Jim Gaylord's work is a continuation of his interest in cultivating found, abstract images from special effects and action sequences in motion pictures. Unlike the process of abstracting realistic forms into reductive shapes, these phenomena are naturally occurring, split–second artifacts of collisions, explosions, and other distortions, taking place at rapid speeds. Building on his past work as a filmmaker, Gaylord looks at the continuum between painting as a historical medium and the spectacular visuals we absorb through contemporary entertainment. Further, the work connects the euphoria of witnessing these images with the disorientation of seeing something we cannot easily identify. Jim 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, the Aspen Collection and the Progressive Art Collection. He has completed residencies at the MacDowell Colony and Yaddo, and received grants from the Pollock–Krasner Foundation, the New York Foundation for the Arts and the Joan Mitchell Foundation. Gaylord lives and works in Brooklyn.