The work on this site is organized into three categories: Projects, Landscapes, and Abstractions. These are distinct modes of inquiry that operate in constant dialogue, each informing the others materially, conceptually, and technically. The divisions reflect differences in emphasis and form rather than hierarchy or value, grounded in a single, integrated practice. This website functions as a window into a library of interdependent content from which ideas and questions destined for exhibitions are drawn.
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PROJECTS
I see these works as interconnected nodes of inquiry into perception, artifice, and the constructed image, operating rhizomatically, like a neural network, in which landscapes become sites of projection, intervention, and erasure. They trace marks left by those who shape, sell, and exploit the American narrative. Meaning emerges through zones of rupture and contradiction encountered as I move through the landscape, isolating and framing symbols that speak to the broader conditions of our perilous and consequential moment.
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LANDSCAPES
Exploring the formal, spatial, and atmospheric qualities of landscape beyond nostalgic representation. Offered in more extensive limited editions and sizes than the work in the Projects section, this body of work operates as a technical and aesthetic catalyst for deeper symbolic inquiry elsewhere on the site. It also materially sustains the broader practice, provides for my family, and allows other creative pursuits to unfold without deference to the market’s volatility.
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ABSTRACTIONS
Formal and aesthetic experimentation through abstraction in the field is an essential part of Gaillard’s practice, offering technical and symbolic challenges that, like the landscapes above, play a vital role in developing ideas explored further in the Projects section of this site. These works often enter exhibitions as moments of pause within a constellation of ideas, creating space for breath and reflection.
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