My paintings are maximal frameworks of childhood ephemera and symbols, lacerated by freewheeling abstractions that embody both the playfulness of youth, and the anxiety that spawns from the shattering amount of information we are bombarded with in the contemporary digital world. Using objects I collect, I create assemblages that operate as reference images which are juxtaposed by my own personal abstractions. Characterized by sharp, scribbling, gridded, overlapping and interlocking shapes, these abstractions can be infinitely arranged throughout the composition.
Kyle Gallagher is a painter who was born and raised in San Francisco, CA and lives in Brooklyn, NY. His work is characterized by a personal archive of layered sharp edged abstractions employing brush, spray, and rolled paint, often juxtaposed by imagery inspired by cartoons and other childhood ephemera. He received a BFA from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and his work has been included in various group exhibitions in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Providence, and New York, as well as solo exhibitions at 5-50 Gallery in New York and Adobe Books in San Francisco.