Jim Gaylord

Jim Gaylord is an American artist based in New York City whose practice blends painting, relief sculpture, and collage. Working primarily with cut-out heavy watercolor paper and gouache, Gaylord composes layered surfaces that hover between two and three dimensions. Drawing on architecture, anatomy, and geometry, he creates forms that feel both bodily and structural. His reliefs evoke facades and fragments of the body, interweaving fragments of memory, film stills, and organic form into complex visual allegories. Gaylord earned his MFA from the University of California, Berkeley (2005) and his BA from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (1997). He has received fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Joan Mitchell Foundation and the Pollock-Krasner Foundation. His work is held in major collections including the Museum of Modern Art, the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, and Mount Holyoke College Art Museum.