J. A. Gaudette is a multidisciplinary artist working across illustration, cinematography, motion graphics, photography, and experimental video. His work has appeared in commercial, gallery, and broadcast settings, with clients including Red Bull, Ford, Hyundai, Palm Treat, Oozelife, and the David Lynch Foundation. He has contributed motion design to the Detroit Free Press’s Freep Film Festival at The Fillmore and created large-scale visual work for the North American International Auto Show.
Gaudette is a Red Bull House of Art Alumni Artist whose work has been shown on billboards, television, and underground exhibitions such as The Dirty Show. In 2025, his short film was selected for The Crofoot’s Creepy Cheapy Film Festival, marking a continued move into independent cinema and genre-driven storytelling. His connection to Detroit’s creative history reaches back to 2014, when he became a visual mainstay of the city’s post-bankruptcy nightlife era, VJing clubs, galleries, and warehouse spaces during a formative chapter of Detroit’s cultural resurgence.
Beyond client and exhibition work, Gaudette has appeared in the viral Slow Roll iPad commercial and performs live video synthesis with the Detroit Eurorack project Letz download a car, merging analog circuitry, real-time visuals, and experimental electronic sound.
Originally trained as a traditional illustrator, Gaudette later shifted into digital filmmaking, developing a style rooted in design clarity, cinematic texture, and a deep focus on color. His current work centers on 12-bit CDNG RAW video as a way to preserve tonal depth and filmic subtlety, treating digital capture as a medium capable of emotional weight rather than convenience. Daily photography, writing, and technical experimentation continue to shape his practice.
Whether the work appears on a billboard, in a theater, or inside a live performance environment, Gaudette approaches every project with the same priority: to create images that feel alive, not just seen.
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"I’m drawn to the ritual of making—how chaos slowly takes shape. The fact it speaks to others is a beautiful side effect."
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