"I
guess you could say I have been drawing since I could
hold a pencil or crayon. My earliest memories are of
drawing cars with my cousins on the floor of my grandparents
den. They were big boxy things with huge wheels in the
back and mufflers the size of smokestacks streaming
down the side. As I got older I began watching my Mom
draw. She liked to draw from those great records of
the 60’s and 70’s with all that album art.
She would give me a piece of paper and a pencil and
I would try to draw what she was drawing and would usually
end up frustrated because it didn’t look anywhere
near as good as hers did. She would just tell me to
keep trying and eventually I would get it. I’m
still trying and I still haven’t gotten it."
Except
that Gary McCauley has definitely got it... He developed
a love of drawing at an early age and studied illustration
and painting at Atlanta College of Art and then illustration
at the Creative Circus under teachers, Mark Braught
and Rob Lawton. McCauley enthusastically absorbs everything
he can about art. About the early days following college
he says, "I changed my style with every book
I read and came to realize just how wonderful and infinite
this thing called Art was." Over time he has
deleveoped his own unique voice.
Gary McCaulyey works as an illustrator, but in recent
years has been working on a body of work specifically
for gallery exhibition. It is in this work that the
true breadth of his imagination reveals itself. He has
exhibited widely in Georgia, in California and Florida.
The Basement Gallery will be hosting a solo exhibition
in 2012.
