{"id":1275,"date":"2025-09-05T19:47:38","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T19:47:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/reframingphotography\/content\/resources\/artists\/james-gallagher\/"},"modified":"2025-09-30T10:38:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T10:38:15","slug":"james-gallagher","status":"publish","type":"content","link":"https:\/\/staging.routledgelearning.com\/reframingphotography\/resources\/artists\/james-gallagher\/","title":{"rendered":"James Gallagher"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">James Gallagher\u2019s website<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gallagherstudio.net\/\">http:\/\/www.gallagherstudio.net\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">James Gallagher at CO2 Contemporary Art<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.co2gallery.com\/\">http:\/\/www.co2gallery.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">James Gallagher on Creating and Curating Contemporary Collage, on Gestalten TV<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/19926719\">http:\/\/vimeo.com\/19926719<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">James Gallagher: Guest Artist, Stussy<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stussy.com\/features\/stussy-guest-artist-series-james-gallagher\">http:\/\/www.stussy.com\/features\/stussy-guest-artist-series-james-gallagher<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>I believe in the secret behavior of human beings. Capturing a fleeting moment or revealing a hidden world is what I strive to do. And if I\u2019m successful, I am able to glimpse some of the beauty, ugliness, solitude, and desire that exists in us all.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>My collaged pieces focus on personal space, physical relationships, and enigmatic situations. The human forms that I create have obscured identities, allowing for their actions to convey the drama. I construct my scenes by sifting-through, and piecing-together imagery cut from obscure books and magazines. In a constant state of layering paper, moving shapes, adding and subtracting colors, I am waiting for figures to form, and something exciting to happen. And when it does, when I have spotted that brief moment in time that feels so natural, or unnatural, that\u2019s when I leave it up to the viewer to decide what it all means.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gallagherstudio.net\/pages\/bio-contact\/\">James Gallagher<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.routledge.com\/reframingphotography\/files\/user\/gallagher_BlankAvedon.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.routledge.com\/reframingphotography\/files\/user\/gallagher_Classical1.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.routledge.com\/reframingphotography\/files\/user\/gallagher_dialects.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.routledge.com\/reframingphotography\/files\/user\/gallagher_Mosler.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.routledge.com\/reframingphotography\/files\/user\/gallagher_Transparent.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Gallagher\u2019s website http:\/\/www.gallagherstudio.net\/ James Gallagher at CO2 Contemporary Art http:\/\/www.co2gallery.com\/ James Gallagher on Creating and Curating Contemporary Collage, on Gestalten TV http:\/\/vimeo.com\/19926719 James Gallagher: Guest Artist, Stussy http:\/\/www.stussy.com\/features\/stussy-guest-artist-series-james-gallagher I believe in the secret behavior of human beings. Capturing a fleeting moment or revealing a hidden world is what I strive to do. 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