Jim Gaylord: Cliffhanger

February 5 - March 14, 2009

Gregory Lind Gallery is pleased to present Jim Gaylord's new exhibition, Cliffhanger. The show will include works in oil on linen, gouache on paper, multi-layered gouaches on paper and acetate, and a lithograph. 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 recent exhibitions include Art on Paper 2008 at the Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC, and upcoming solo exhibitions later this year in New York and Milan. Gaylord was a 2008 Fellow in Painting for the New York Foundation for the Arts, the recipient of a Joan Mitchell Foundation MFA Grant in 2005, and recently completed a Project Fellowship with the Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop. Gaylord's work is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the West Collection, and the Progressive Art Collection. This is Gaylord's second solo exhibition with the gallery. He lives and works in New York.


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Jim Gaylord

Human Piñata, 2008
gouache on paper
23 x 41.5 in.

Jim Gaylord

The Examples of Our Power, 2008
gouache on paper
35 x 60 in.

Jim Gaylord

Intersection, 2008
oil on linen
24 x 40 in.

Jim Gaylord

A Wit Among Lords, 2008
oil on linen
36 x 60 in.


Jim Gaylord

Study (Braveheart + Jackass: the Movie + Cloverfield + Last of the Mohicans + Home Alone 2), 2009
gouache on paper and acetate, plastic peg bar
10.5 x 14.5 in.

Jim Gaylord

Study (Apocalypto + Dreamcatcher + Braveheart + Hancock + The Fury), 2009
gouache on paper and acetate, plastic peg bar
10.5 x 14.5 in.

Jim Gaylord

Study (Jackass 2.5 + Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon + Last of the Mochicans + Vertical Limit), 2009
gouache on paper and acetate, plastic peg bar
10.5 x 14.5 in.

Jim Gaylord

Harrowing Bonanza, 2009
6 color lithograph, edition of 20
paper: 21 x 28 in. / image: 13.75 x 24 in.


Jim Gaylord

Final Destination 00:15:11:22 and 00:15:22:07, 2008
oil on linen
diptych: each 18x 30 in.

Jim Gaylord

Refraction with Monster, 2008
gouache on paper
19 x 30 in.

Jim Gaylord

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