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[[File:'Horror a Vacui -45', ink on canvas by Jim Shaw, 1991, HMA.JPG|thumb|right|300px|''Horror a Vacui #45'', ink on canvas by [[Jim Shaw]], 1991, [[Honolulu Museum of Art]]]] |
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'''Jim Shaw''' (born 1952) is a contemporary American artist, born in [[Midland, MI]].<ref>http://www.praz-delavallade.com/artists/Jim_Shaw/biography.html?from=artist_id</ref> He received his B.F.A. from [[University of Michigan]] in 1974 and his M.F.A. from the [[California Institute of the Arts]] in 1978. Shaw lives and works in Los Angeles, CA and is married to another Los Angeles-based artist, [[Marnie Weber]]. His 1991 ink on canvas work ''Horror a Vacui #45'' is in the collection of the [[Honolulu Museum of Art]]. Jim Shaw is represented by the [[Simon lee gallery|Simon Lee Gallery]] in London. |
'''Jim Shaw''' (born 1952) is a contemporary American artist, born in [[Midland, MI]].<ref>http://www.praz-delavallade.com/artists/Jim_Shaw/biography.html?from=artist_id</ref> He received his B.F.A. from [[University of Michigan]] in 1974 and his M.F.A. from the [[California Institute of the Arts]] in 1978. Shaw lives and works in Los Angeles, CA and is married to another Los Angeles-based artist, [[Marnie Weber]]. His 1991 ink on canvas work ''Horror a Vacui #45'' is in the collection of the [[Honolulu Museum of Art]]. Jim Shaw is represented by the [[Simon lee gallery|Simon Lee Gallery]] in London. |
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Jim Shaw (born 1952) is a contemporary American artist, born in Midland, MI.[1] He received his B.F.A. from University of Michigan in 1974 and his M.F.A. from the California Institute of the Arts in 1978. Shaw lives and works in Los Angeles, CA and is married to another Los Angeles-based artist, Marnie Weber. His 1991 ink on canvas work Horror a Vacui #45 is in the collection of the Honolulu Museum of Art. Jim Shaw is represented by the Simon Lee Gallery in London.
Creative practice
The Thrift Store Paintings
In 2000, he staged a show at the ICA, London, of Thrift Store Paintings—paintings he had collected by (mostly anonymous) amateur artists in America.
Some reactions to this show were:
- Adrian Searle (The Guardian):
- 1) The paintings are awful, indefensible, crapulous….these people can't draw, can't paint; these people should never be left alone with a paintbrush.
- 2) The Thrift Store Paintings are fascinating, alarming, troubled and funny. Scary too, just like America.[2]
- Sarah Kent (Time Out):
- Critics professing to be gobsmacked by these efforts can never have seen an amateur art show or walked along the railings of the Bayswater road. They should get out more.[2]
Destroy All Monsters with Mike Kelley
As an art student in Ann Arbor, he helped form the protopunk group Destroy All Monsters along with Mike Kelley, Niagara and filmmaker Cary Loren in 1973. He left the band in 1976 and played in original line up reunion shows in 1995.
References
External links
- List of art shows at Metro Pictures Gallery website
- Selected works, biography and exhibitions at Praz-Delavallade Gallery website
- Simon Lee Gallery, London.
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