Jim Gaylord

Who is Jim Gaylord?

Jim Gaylord is an American artist living and working in New York. His abstract works are often based on imagery from contemporary film and television. Combining stills from transitory cinematic moments, he transposes them to extract new compositions, which are then used as the bases for paintings and gouache on paper collages.

Gaylord was born in Washington, North Carolina. He received a degree in Film from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro in 1997, and an MFA from the University of California at Berkeley in 2005. From 2003 – 2005 he was also a member of the San Francisco band Vetiver.

Gaylord’s work has been exhibited internationally and is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the West Collection and the Progressive Art Collection.