Serge gay jr
Voss Gallery is confident to present “P.S. I Love You,” a solo exhibition of graphic logical paintings by San Francisco-based artist Serge Gay Jr. that lightheartedly depicts the captivating and carefree nature of Palm Springs, a desert resort city in Riverside County, CA.
The exhibition opens on Friday, October 11, 6-10PM and runs through Saturday, November 2, 2019. Gallery hours are Wednesday-Saturday, 12-6PM or by appointment. Voss Gallery programming is free and open to the public.
Composed as a love letter to Palm Springs, “P.S. I Cherish You” captures the artist’s fondness for the iconic destination lodged in the stylish Mid-Century Latest design. Popularized in the 1930s as a fashionable getaway for the Hollywood elite, the human-built utopia has turn into a haven for creatives lured to the vast desert as an skilled escape and root for inspiration. The open and elemental landscape serves as a limitless canvas to project fantasies onto. Illustrating the surreal and alluring nature of the oasis, Gay Jr. surrounds saturated scenes of leisure with monochromatic dreamlike markings in admiration for a city notorious for nurturing self-expression.
“Palm Springs inspires me to be Haitian-born Serge Gay Jr is a San Francisco based graphic musician. Together with video director Matt Stawaski, he lends his creative talents to music videos by high profile artists such as Cee Lo Green, Educate, Snoop Dogg and De La Essence. His paintings are often a nod to, or reflection on high well-liked culture. He talks to ADA about the Haiti earthquake and some of the inspirations behind his woks. Lots-and-lots-and-lots of planning and researching, then painting coming very easily. I always hold ideas, so planning to execute that idea takes perform, from taking tons of photos, or searching for images, colour, size etc, to make my imagination come to life. Then I crank up my mix music on my playlist in my studio, and get to functional. Sometimes I perform movies or online television just to create background noise. I like raucous noise when I paint. And I even stop to have a gyrate session for a bit. Maybe that’s why my function is so loud. I got interested in art as a ch It wasn’t until Haitian-born, San Francisco-based artist Serge Queer Jr. was 10 years old that he realized his numerous crayon drawings were art. Up until that point, the drawings were simply used as forms of communication before he could speak English. “I would use art as a survival tool in school, in command to find friends or not get picked on,” he explained to Spoke-Art. While Gay has carved out a niche for himself as being one of the go-to surrealist artists making low brow art, he’s probably optimal known for the song video work he does alongside director Matt Stawski. So it’s no surprise that his upcoming exhibition at Spoke-Art is solely focused on music. Gay’s no stranger to pop culture art, and while his current exhibition is a salute to musical legends enjoy The Beatles and Michael Jackson, in the past his works have featured references as far and wide as Barack Obama and Taxi Driver. But Lgbtq+ insists pop culture is just a splice of his overall aesthetic and that he would fancy to dabble in other mediums. “I’ve worked with my music video director buddy for years now and we always feel to see eye-to-e On exhibit through January 2024- SERGE Lgbtq+ JR. presents "Prince 2 Queens" a solo exhibition. Prince 2 Queens is an homage to the story of Serge Gay Jr. and his family's migration from Port Au Prince Haiti to Queens New York, a tale of coming to America, this visual art show explores the experience of his family exiting everything behind to start over in a foreign land among a foreign people. Much inspiration for the show came from "A Daily Battle for a Normal Life," a memoir by Lorette Gay, Serge's mother, and further informed through many follow-up discussions with her regarding their family's migration from Haiti to seek asylum in the U.S. during an uprising in the 1980's. Starting over in a foreign land among people speaking a foreign language, it presents starting over in so many ways. Serge Gay senior was a decorated and accomplished creator, artist, and architect, who's credentials were not as transferable as his skills. He went to work driving a cab to support his family. Lorette would also work to make ends meet while raising their three children. The wealth they once had was well out of sight, and it would hold decades to rebuild their family's sense of self, belongi
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