Jim Gaylord

Jim Gaylord is a painter and sculptor using elements of formalism, geometry, and ornamentation to construct spaces that are simultaneously elegant and strange. Evoking both architectural and bodily structures, his imagery balances between a sense of mystery and specificity to find order among shapes that otherwise appear idiosyncratic or elusive. The white, stone-like surfaces of his recent paper reliefs resemble friezes or facades from a civilization in the past, or perhaps the future.

Jim Gaylord (b. 1974 in Washington, NC) currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. He earned his MFA from the University of California, Berkeley, and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of North Carolina, Greensboro. His work has been exhibited internationally and is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the Berkeley Art Museum. He has received fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Joan Mitchell Foundation and the Pollock-Krasner Foundation. Gaylord has completed residencies at MacDowell and Yaddo, as well as the Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program.

EXHIBITIONS:
Jim Gaylord, Composure
House Party
Jim Gaylord, Odd Facade