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Biography
James Gilroy says his work begins as an idea brought into focus by pausing to listen, picking up the brush and then within the pause, letting it tell him what to do. His images are made to be broken, enhanced and changed. Born in New York City in 1948, Gilroy's formal training began at The New York Phoenix School of Design and continued for more than a decade at Art Students League of New York. The understanding of anatomy was paramount in his education as an artist and a skill he exercises to this day.
Gilroy believes it takes years of active pursuit to build up the personal muscle to paint what is private but compels to be revealed and spoken. His work is layered with many colors that transmute and blend together as an alchemy of color where he trusts the rhythm will influence the viewer's eye to travel and be enticed. The substance of light combined with the colors help him break the image into something truer. In Gilroy's words, "It is vital to me to have my work express a thingness, a movement perhaps even into something that sings."
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Download Gilroy CVLives and works in New York, NY
EDUCATION
New York Phoenix School of Design, New York, NY
Art Students League of New York, New York, NYSOLO EXHIBITIONS
2014
Simple Ain't Easy, Janet Kurnatowski Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2010
Urban Zen, Sag Harbor, NY
2007
Dactyl Foundation for the Arts & Humanities, New York, NY
2006
Boltax Gallery, Shelter Island, NY
2002
Dactyl Foundation for the Arts & Humanities, New York, NY
2001
Agama Gallery, New York, NY
1999
Dactyl Foundation for the Arts & Humanities, New York, NY
ART Gallery, Sussex, NJ
1998
Dactyl Foundation for the Arts & Humanities, New York, NY
1992
291 Gallery, New York, NYGROUP EXHIBITIONS
2017
White Trash The Collection of Larry Clark, Luhring Augustine, Bushwick, NY
2015
PAPERAZZI, Janet Kurnatowski Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2014
10 Year Anniversary Collection, Janet Kurnatowski Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2013
1st Annual Holiday Salon Exhibition, ILLE Arts, Amagansett, NY
2012
The Family Show, ILLE Arts, Amagansett, NY
Open for the Stones, Harper's Books, East Hampton, NY
The Family Show, ILLE Arts, Amagansett, NY
2009
My Heroes, Jack the Pelican Presents, Brooklyn, NY
Morgan Fine Arts Evening Salon, Brooklyn, NY
Paper in the Wind Part 3, Gallery Thomas Jaeckel, New York, NY
2008
New Work from Old Friends, Boltax Gallery, Shelter Island, NY
2007
La Zona Red Hook Art Show, Brooklyn, NY
2006
The Big Show, Silas Marder Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY
2005
Howl Festival, Bowman/Bloom Gallery, New York, NY
2003
Heroes & Villians, Dactyl Foundation for the Arts & Humanities, New York, NY
1996
Drawing Space, New York, NY
1995
A Place to Stand, Emerging Collector, New York, NY
1994
Heart Attack, Gavin Collection, New York, NYBIBLIOGRAPHY
"Jimmy Gilroy and Cristina V" S Magazine (Denmark), Ajar 7, Summer 2008, Photos by Sophia
Jack Spade: Bald Ego Sells Out! 2006
"Works on Paper 2006 by James Gilroy at Boltax Gallery," by Robin F. Smith Dan's Paper, Bridgehampton, NY (June 23rd, 2006)
"Arts Calendar: Boltax Gallery, James Gilroy Works on Paper through July 19th" The East Hampton Star, East Hampton, NY (June 22nd, 2006)
"Remember/Reflect/Renew," The New York Times (September 2002)
"Before and After 9/11," Alexandra, Victoria N. & Maria Villafranca. Dactyl Foundation (2002)
"Filling a Void," Thomas, Kelly Devine. ARTnews (April 2002)
Bald Ego: Strip Searching the Soul (2002)
"James Gilroy at Dactyl Foundation," Gladstone, Valerie. ARTnews (April 2000)
"James Gilroy: The Limits of Creaturely Love," Henry, Gerrit. Dactyl Foundation (1998)
New York Magazine May 11th, 1998
Paper Magazine May 1998
