Over the past year, I have been exploring issues of protests around the world and predominantly in Haiti where the past three years of intense political instability and inadequate living conditions have propelled massive protests. From this starting point, I started a series called La Valeur de Revolte (ongoing). Other current work explores the question what does it means to be a strong man. In particular, the series Gason Solid explores masculinity but divorced from the body as a solid tangible mass and instead locates it within the heart and the mind. In general, my work looks at my experiences both imagined and lived and draws from vivid dream sequences as well.

To my family and childhood friends I am known as Gaalo; a nickname given to me by my uncle. The name on my birth certificate is obscured to most but for me it is a warm reminder of all the matriarchs in my family that have used it throughout my childhood even now.

I was born on late June day 1976 in Potoprens, Ayiti. I moved to New York in August 1989 via Miami. In March 2010 I packed my bags for Potoprens still straddling the shores of New York and recently Miami. Having lived in these cities, I see myself of all of these cities, but maybe What I have become is a New Yorker and a Potoprensyen. Despite my love and care for the countryside of Ayiti, I am at heart an urbanite influenced by the culture of cities and the many issues which affect cities within the realm of art and architecture.

I started painting at the beginning of graduate school in architecture while at Pratt Institute (1999 to 2001). In 2003 I started making work that propelled me to further explore more this side of my self. Two years later, a major event in my life prompted me to further display my emotions on large pieces of canvas. Since then painting has become an emotional outlet to explore issues of migration and language. My first exhibition was in 2009 at the CEEFLAT in Greenpoint Brooklyn, New York.