Jim Shaw (artist)

For other people of the same name, see Jim Shaw (disambiguation).

Jim Shaw is a contemporary American artist, born in Midland, MI, and who now lives and works in Los Angeles.[1] He received his B.F.A. from University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in 1974 and his M.F.A. from the California Institute of the Arts, in 1978. Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA He is married to other Los Angeles based artist, Marnie Weber. Jim Shaw is represented by Simon Lee Gallery in London.

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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:

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]
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

  1. ^ http://www.praz-delavallade.com/artists/Jim_Shaw/biography.html?from=artist_id
  2. ^ a b "What the Critics Say – Jim Shaw at the ICA", newsletter 2, artrumour.com, October 23, 2000 Retrieved March 28, 2006

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