Jay Gard

Jay Gard (born November 5, 1984 in Halle / Saale ) is a German artist. He lives and works in Berlin .

Jay Gard in his studio, Berlin 2019

Life

Jay Gard grew up in Karl-Marx-Stadt (today: Chemnitz) and experienced his early childhood in the late years of the German Democratic Republic (GDR). After graduating from high school, the son of a textile designer and an industrial designer studied painting and graphics at the University of Art and Design (Burg Giebichenstein) in Halle / Saale for a few semesters . From 2006 to 2008 he worked in New York for the American artist Tom Sachs and in Berlin for the German artist Thomas Demand . He continued his studies in 2008 in Leipzig at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst(HGB) in the class for installation and space with Joachim Blank . In 2010 he founded the label VEGA-Leipzig, for which he designed and implemented various audio objects. He has lived and worked in Berlin since 2012.

Jay Gard, Deffke Billboard, Signals der Moderne, Bauhaus Dessau , 2016

Jay Gard, Touristic Hint , Nah und Fern, Sculpture Triennial Bingen, 2017

Jay Gard, Berliner Leiste as part of SMALL (installation view), Galerie Sexauer, Berlin, 2017

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Jay Gard constructs works whose imagery combines aesthetics and rationality . His works are characterized by strict geometric forms and structured conceptually. They consist mainly of wood, plywood and steel, the surfaces of which he paints with industrial paints. Processing processes on the material - such as grinding marks, angle or dimension calculations - can still remain visible to the viewer.

Gard's works include space-consuming installations as well as three-dimensional murals. Sometimes they quote and ironic codes of art, culture and design history. He reinterprets and contextualizes these by removing their original meaning. He is primarily concerned with motivating him to produce art and artefacts. Gard makes the purely creative process and artistic moment itself the subject of his work. In his current works he is dedicated to color schemes and their compositional effect.

Jay Gard, Cecily Color Wheel ( Cecily Brown , Bend Sinister), 2018

Solo exhibitions (selection)

2019: Gabriele , Museum Gunzenhauser , Chemnitz, DE
2018: Colors , Gether Contemporary , Copenhagen, DK
2017: Sign under Sign , SEXAUER , Berlin, DE
2017: It's the Frame Not the Painting , Jonas Mekas Visual Arts Center , Vilnius, LT
2016: making things makes us human , Gether Contemporary , Copenhagen, DK
2015: Wrong History , SEXAUER , Berlin, DE
2015: Jay Gard , Galerie Oelfrüh Cabinet , Hamburg, DE
2014: Everybody's Moving , Galerie B2 , Leipzig, DE
2013: Jay Gard , [http://www.sexauer.eu/jay-gard-exhibition/ SEXAUER ], Berlin, DE
2013: The Jay Gard Picture Collection , We make it , Berlin, DE
2011: Fun House , Universal Cube , Leipzig, DE
2008: Hammertime , UFO Gallery, Halle / Saale, DE
2008: Double Gard , Half Gallery , New York, US

Group exhibitions (selection)

2018: Ansbach Contemporary , Biennale for contemporary art , Ansbach, DE
2018: A tower of the impossible , König Galerie , Berlin, DE
2018: Melting Point , Art and Thinker , Düsseldorf, DE
2017: Nah und Fern , Sculptures Triennale Bingen , Bingen am Rhein, DE
2017: lower color , embassy, Uferhallen Wedding , Berlin, DE
2017: SMALL - an exploration of miniature , Sexauer , Berlin, DE
2016: Signals of Modernity , Bauhaus Dessau Foundation , Dessau, DE
2016: Lithomania , Schaufenster , Berlin, DE
2015: Arcadia Unbound , Funkhaus, Berlin , Berlin, DE
2015: Spring Exhibition , Museum Charlottenborg, Copenhagen , DK
2014: Booster - Art Sound Machine , Museum Marta Herford, Herford , Herford, DE
2012: New acquisitions of contemporary art in the art fund , representation of the Free State of Saxony at the federal government, Berlin, DE
2011: Woodanfall , Loyal Arts Club, Kassel, DE
2010: Pavilion X , Jakopice Gallery , Ljubljana, SLO
2010: Blokkade , ABK, Stuttgart , DE
2009: Décohérence , Sortie d'Artistes, Rennes, FR
2008: Wore , Jack The Pelican Presents, New York, US

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personal data
SURNAME	Gard, Jay
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German artist
DATE OF BIRTH	5th November 1984
PLACE OF BIRTH	Halle (Saale)