Biography
James Gallagher uses collage to uncover personal identity and explore the human condition. Gallagher’s work has hung in galleries worldwide and he has curated international collage exhibitions in New York City, Berlin, and Cork, Ireland. He is represented by Illustration Division, and his art has appeared in publications such as The Paris Review, Juxtapoz, and The New York Times; and was featured in the HBO Docuseries Sex Diaries. His series of Collage Workshops have been held at locations such as Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Happy Medium, 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 published 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.