Gavin is a visual artist, whose paintings are abstract expressionist and large in scale. He does fine art, design work, and photography. Gavin’s paintings are painted in an abstract expressionist style, which is embedded in the language of it. It emphasizes raw texture, movement, and emotional immediacy through consideration of the canvas surface. He often uses canvases that are 5 feet long or more. It is not all strictly defined, but he plays tension between chaos and control within the tactile media. The pieces themselves show bold strokes, contrast of colors, and rough textures that are visceral and contemplation at the same time.

Alongside his fine art practice Gavin creates visual identity for his music and film projects. Mainly through the album art, photography, and graphic projects he can be seen as exhibiting his style. His design work proposes a brutalist approach that exemplifies saturated colors in contrast to stark black-and-white photography and raw textures that portray that intensity of the subject and genuineness of the meaning. He maximizes the visual communication involved in music and film, and tries to create a continuity of visual identity that relates to the photographs and painting.

Gavin’s process is concentrated and methodical. He will create stretches on the canvas for his installation, or he may pre-age props for the pieces. His installations are in-the-moment re-creation of something that happened prior to people’s experience. He also primes surfaces live, if the opportunity arises. The point is, every project he pursues he is both an artist and storyteller. Gavin’s work is informed by his processes and experiences in the music and film, and not limited to literal interpretation. For Gavin, he translates sound, and music into visual form.

Across all mediums, Gavin’s visual art reflects a fascination with tension, atmosphere, and human imperfection: creating pieces that are bold, intimate, and unflinchingly alive.