Gary creates dramatic, gestural paintings that incorporate some figurative elements and recognizable symbols. His art is characterized by a tense yet playful presentation of objects in a "primitivist" manner, vivid colour disharmonies, often large scale, and a sense of inner tension and alienation. His artistic style in which he depicts not objective reality but the subjective emotions that objects or events arouse is informed by the world around him. This stimulation is accomplished through the distortion and exaggeration of shape and the vivid or aggressive application of colour and line.
