January 5 -28, 2024
Images Images Images, it’s all about Images, whether drawing, painting, sculpture, photography, digital work, all image making, and it’s all that matters.The fuel source throughout has been a restless exploratory energy, curiosity, improvisation, ever-evolving style shifts, pursuits in varying processes and materials, imagination, and a trust in instinctive impulses. It’s not essential to my practice to work with the agency of stability, but rather to employ the tools of uncertainty, the act of juxtaposition, and the artist’s Unknowing. Whether specific or not, the building blocks for chance narratives, for meaning, reveal themselves more as offerings than declarations.
When asked about his process, Michael Gellaty’s said, “As an image maker for most of my life, I continue to work among the plethora of studio practices and processes, allowing visual languages to freely build upon each other.”
He added, “It’s not essential to my practice to work with the agency of stability, but rather to employ the tools of uncertainty, the act of juxtaposition, and the artist’s Unknowing. Whether specific or not, the building blocks for chance narratives, for meaning, reveal themselves more as offerings than declarations.”