Gaillard’s landscapes function less as windows and more as atmospheres—vessels of light and air that aim to reproduce in his audience the essential feeling of being in a place, as opposed to functioning as an image depicting a scene, a moment, or a particular location. They exist not just as documents of record, but as conduits of sensation. In order to achieve the scale and clarity that allows for such atmospheric effects to be rendered, Gaillard uses an 8 x 10 film camera for his landscape work, and the highest quality digitization technology to render his images. 

Michael Gaillard, b. 1979, graduated from Columbia University with his MFA in 2010 and received his BA from Stanford University in 2003. He has had solo exhibitions for the past five summers at the Seven Seas Gallery in Nantucket as well as in the Lower East Side of New York City. His work is featured in hundreds of private collections worldwide. This year he opened his own gallery beneath Oran Mor at 2 South Beach Street, Michael Gaillard Studio, with an ambition to create a new context for contemporary art discourse on the island.