Jim Shaw Paintings

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Jim shaw paintings. Jim shaw american b. See available works on paper paintings and sculpture for sale and learn about the artist. Shaw s work is diverse in media as well as in style. Find an in depth biography exhibitions original artworks for sale the latest news and sold auction prices.

Born in michigan shaw received his bfa from the university of michigan ann arbor and an mfa from the california institute of the arts. The my mirage 1986 91 project comprises nearly 170 drawings silkscreens photographs sculptures films and paintings based on a shaw stand in called billy who grows from childhood to psychosis to born again christianity. In 2002 shaw presented an exhibition at the swiss institute in new york in which he installed goodman s studio and paintings as well as a massive set of file cabinets housing gunn s collection of reference imagery mostly taken from commercial publications of various kinds. Jim shaw is a contemporary american artist whose eclectic practice mines the detritus of pop culture.

Join artist jim shaw and massimiliano gioni artistic director at the new museum for a discussion of shaw s practice and the exhibition the end is here over the past thirty years shaw has. More o ist works were exhibited later in 2003 2004 at the magasin centre national d art contemporain grenoble france and kunsthaus glarus switzerland. 1952 influential american artist jim shaw is characterized by his interdisciplinary practice and wide range of visual imagery. View jim shaw s 308 artworks on artnet.

Famous as a collector of american junk including a trove of thrift store paintings once sought by art collector charles saatchi jim shaw draws on his vast stores of pop cultural artifacts in his work. Shaw s paintings rendered in extreme detail and some of which are painted on theatrical backdrops incorporate symbols and characters that chart the country s ever changing reality. Dream drawings 1992 1999 series one of his iconic works features pencil on paper drawings that feature surreal and yet naturalistic scenes in the style of comic stripes. Since the 1970s jim shaw has mined the detritus of american culture finding inspiration for his artworks in comic books pulp novels rock albums protest posters thrift store paintings and advertisements.