Jeff Baily Gallery -> Jim Gaylord: Based on True Events

"Three Stars" "★★★"

Review of Jim Gaylord's solo show:

Jim Gaylord must be very popular; his show was packed so I didn't get the best look at this body of work, but from what I could tell it disappointed in a few different ways. I'm all for fractured collage type paintings, but Gaylord fractured this set of work one or two steps to far. So far, in fact that they lost their sense of narrative and became bits of different paintings that look like bits of different paintings that fell on top of each other in a totally chaotic meaningless way. I don't see transformation in this work only compilation. If maybe he would merge 2 frames at once the viewer could get more out of each painting, but it felt like 25 frames at once! There's definitely potential there though, you should decide for your self and see the images at this online art gallery. You don't have to see the works in person; they look better online.

Press Release of Jeff Baily Gallery:

Jim Gaylord: Based on True Events

Jeff Bailey Gallery is pleased to present Jim Gaylord, Based on True Events, an exhibition of paintings and works on paper. This is the artist’s first solo exhibition in New York.

Gaylord combines scenes from big budget action movies, capturing fleeting shapes and special effects. Through the process of painting, high-speed action sequences are distilled and dramatic conflict is suspended in time. The abstract quality of these moments suggests figures and objects in a state of metamorphosis.

Gaylord collects film stills by freezing individual scenes on the computer screen. He then digitally superimposes several film stills together, creating a composite from multiple images. These become the source material for his oil paintings and gouaches, resulting in something like painted collages. “Artifacts” from fast-moving events onscreen, such as flashes, splatters and blurs, become painterly marks when depicted on canvas or paper.

In Gaylord’s Study series, sheets of acetate are individually painted in gouache, culminating in a single image. The picture is literally built from these layers and assembled on a registration peg bar, drawing similarities to the format of traditional animation cells.

Gaylord mines numerous historical period action movies for source imagery, including The Patriot, Gladiator, The Last Samurai and Pirates of the Caribbean. Suits of armor, military uniforms and period headwear reference the figure without depicting it. Landscape backgrounds with trees and open skies serve as representational foundations for the ultimately mysterious foregrounds.

In Saber Rattle, dappled light falls onto a scene of random violence. Weapons, uniforms and clutching hands jostle for position. The image and the action are in flux, but the painting gives the direction.

The title of the exhibition, Based on True Events, references its use as a popular movie tag line. Gaylord takes the fictional reality of the movies, and distorts it into his own broken narrative.

Gaylord was a 2008 Fellow in Painting for New York Foundation for the Arts and a recipient of a Joan Mitchell Foundation MFA Grant in 2005. He has had solo exhibitions at Gregory Lind Gallery, San Francisco and Alberto Matteo Torri, Milan. His work was featured in Art On Paper 2008, at The Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, North Carolina, and is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Progressive Art Collection, Ohio and the West Collection, Pennsylvania. He received his MFA from the University of California, Berkeley and a BA in Film from the University of North Carolina, Greensboro. Gaylord lives and works in New York.

For further information or images, please contact the gallery at 212.989.0156 or info@baileygallery.com.(quoted from baileygallery.com)

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