Biography
James Gallagher uses collage as a means to communicate ideas and ask questions. Gallagher’s work has hung in galleries around the world and he has curated international collage exhibitions in New York City, Berlin, and Cork County, Ireland. He is represented by Illustration Division, and his art has appeared in publications such as The Yale Review, The Paris Review, Juxtapoz, and The New York Times; and was featured in the HBO Docuseries Sex Diaries as well as Shoppe Object 2024. His series of Collage Workshops have been held at locations such as The Painting School, Happy Medium, Hot House, Artist & Craftsman, High School of Fashion Industries, and Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Gallagher is the co-editor of Gestalten’s Cutting Edges: The Art of Contemporary Collage and was the publisher, editor and creative director of the contemporary art magazine Secret Behavior. He earned a BFA from The School of Visual Arts in New York City, where he lives with his wife and three children.
Artist Statement
I sit at a ittered table and piece together fragments of the world around me. Using pages from discarded books, I try to capture fleeting moments with a knife and glue. My focus is on the human form and all of its subtle gestures and innate behaviors. My exploration of the figure most often involves a live model, and is done in an intuative and impulsive manner. Once the glue has dried I hope to find a depiction of the frailty and fluidity of the human condition. As well as a floor full of scraps.