Featuring Artist: James Gallagher

James Gallagher is quite the busy type. I must admit I don't really like his name cause it reminds me of those cocky brothers from Manchester that don't even say hi to each anymore, if you know what I mean, but his work is a whole different thing. Apart from being a Brooklyn based artist he is also the creative Director for a marketing firm as well as an instructor at Parsons the New School for Design in New York City. Gallagher's main medium of expression is the use of collage. So what he likes to do is to mess around with different pictures that he collects by cutting them off from books and magazines, and then he puts together his own self-created images to depict a situation or any other scene it is that he wants to illustrate. It might sound easy work at first but being an Illustration and Graphic Design graduate from the School of Visual Arts in New York, from which he also earned a BFA, Gallagher falls into that category of artists who's work holds a versatility strong enough to land it not only inside various galleries across the country in the form of exhibition, like the one he curated entitled Cutters which was also brought to Europe, as well as various books and entries for magazines like Juxtapoz and Arkitip, but also give it enough street cred to end up on clothes and accessories of street fashion brands such as UNDFTD and Stussy. Besides numerous solo exhibitions he has also participated in quite a few group exhibitions both in Europe and the US and various different projects collaborating with the people from the Wooster Collective and American Illustration among many others