Gregory Lind Gallery
49 Geary St
415.296.9661
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Jim Gaylord, Human Piñata, 2008, Gouache on paper, Courtesy Gregory Lind Gallery
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Opens Thursday Feb 5, 2009 (5–8pm)
Feb 5, 2009 – Mar 14, 2009
Tuesdays–Saturdays (10:30am–5:30pm)
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The late critic Paul Virilio noted the way in which digital media constantly strive to anticipate an "unknowable" passing event, creating a "surprise constituted by rupture." One may safely say that, in his new exhibition at Gregory Lind Gallery, New York-based painter Jim Gaylord is equally well-versed in visual disruptions. Mining a bevy of lowbrow summer blockbusters as source material, Gaylord’s mise-en-scenes expose an alternate dimension of convoluted and distilled action sequences. Against scrims of dark pines, heaps of roiling objects bloom and fracture; elsewhere, forms are decimated under bleak, blue skies. While such a marriage of grace with violence is unmistakably cinematic, Gaylord's new tableaux are sure to subvert any Hollywood sponsor's message.
