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Metro Pictures
519 West 24th Street, NY 10011 New York
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U.S.A.
Tel.++1 (212) 2067100
Fax++1 (212) 3370070
Contact: Tom Heman
E-mail: mpmp@bellatlantic.net
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Jim Shaw
Jim Shaw’s most recent paintings, sculptures and drawings continue his ambitious Dream Project– an undertaking devoted to the fabrication of objects and images dreamt by the artist. The “dream objects” serve not only as strange artifacts of the dream experience, but more deeply, as residual markers of the artist’s psyche, psychological crises and phobias. Among the odd pastiche of objects in the exhibition are numerous distorted portraits, student-style paintings, a styrofoam sculpture of Santa Claus suspended in a tire swing, a giant two-part Ganesha statue, and references to Sears, Roebuck and Company and Serbian basketball players. Underlying are bizarre visual and psychological puns and pop references.
This exhibition marks Shaw's fifth solo show at Metro Pictures. His recent retrospective Everything Must Go was on view at Casino Luxembourg, MAMCO in Geneva, and the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati; his Thrift Store Paintings were shown at the ICA, London. Shaw’s work has been represented in major shows of Los Angeles artists such as Helter Skelter at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, Performance Anxiety at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego and Sunshine and Noir, which originated at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark and traveled throughout Europe and the United States. His work was included in the 1991 Whitney Biennial. Shaw attended the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor and the California Institute of the Arts and currently lives in Los Angeles.
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Dream Object
2000
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