Ensemble: Jim Shaw - Study Drawings
Since his studies at the CalArts/California Institute of the Arts in the 1970s, drawing has occupied an important place in Jim Shaw's artistic practice. Yet during that period, the emphasis was mainly on non-figurative and conceptual art. As a true professional, Shaw masters observational drawing and drawing based on photographic material. With the series 'Dream Drawings', he focuses on putting a drawing on paper directly from his imagination. Central to the exhibition is a selection of more than 100 studio drawings that Jim Shaw made over the past decade. With a combination of detailed preliminary studies of paintings and ideas quickly put on paper, this overview provides an intimate insight into Shaw's creative and conceptual process. It sketches, as it were, the artist's mental landscape over the past ten years. Shaw mixes recognisable and absurd images, digging into American culture and politics, and revealing more than ever the growing friction between conservative and progressive thinking.
Works
>Jim Shaw, Study for "4 Horseman of the Apocalypse", 2013.Drawing, pencil on paper, 14 x 16 15/16 inches.
>Jim Shaw, Study for "Decapitated Okapi 1", 2014.Drawing, pencil on paper, 11 x 14 inches.
>Jim Shaw, Study for "Light Of the Forest", 2014.Drawing, pencil on paper, 14 x 17 inches.
>Jim Shaw, Study for "Iconoclast", 2015.Drawing, pencil on paper, 14 x 11 inches.
>Jim Shaw, Study for " The Moon" , 2015.Drawing, pencil on paper, 9 x 12 inches.
>Jim Shaw, Study for " The Moon" with Dog and Cheney, 2015.Drawing, pencil on paper, 20 1/2 x 17 1/16 inches.
>Jim Shaw, Study for Silhouette Figures, 2015.Drawing, pencil on paper, 14 x 17 inches.
>Jim Shaw, Study for "Origin of the Species" 2, 2015.Drawing, pencil on paper, 9 x 11 inches.
>Jim Shaw, Study for "Two Top Hats", 2015.Drawing, pencil on paper, 9 x 12 inches.
>Jim Shaw, Study for "Refrigerator in Hell", 2015.Drawing, ink and pencil on paper, 24 x 17 inches.
>Jim Shaw, Study for "Mystery Babylon", 2015.Drawing, pencil on paper, 12 x 9 inches.
>Jim Shaw, Study for "Sprits of the Dead", 2015.Drawing, pencil on paper, 17 x 14 inches.
>Jim Shaw, Study for "Lucifer and the Pope in Hell", 2015.Drawing, ink and pencil on paper, 11 x 14 inches.
>Jim Shaw, Study for "Judgement", 2015.Drawing, pencil on paper, 9 x 12 inches.
>Jim Shaw, Study for Rhoads, 2016.Drawing, pencil on paper, 16 1/2 x 13 inches.
>Jim Shaw, Study for "St. George", 2016.Drawing, pencil on paper, 11 x 14 inches.
>Jim Shaw, Study for Wig Museum Cut-Outs (Cyril Smith), 2016.Drawing, pencil on paper, 24 x 19 inches.
>Jim Shaw, Study for Wig Museum Cut-Outs (Electrolux vacuum body), 2016.Drawing, pencil on paper, 13 7/8 x 17 inches.
>Jim Shaw, Study 5 for "Untitled (White Over Payne's Grey)", 2016.Drawing, pencil on paper, 19 x 24 inches.
>Jim Shaw, Study for "Noir Cityscape" Large, 2017.Drawing, pencil on paper, 19 x 24 inches.
>Jim Shaw, Study for Homed Hummer, 2017.Drawing, pencil on paper, 9 1/16 x 12 inches.
>Jim Shaw, Study for the "Whore of Babylon", 2017.Drawing, pencil on paper, 19 x 10 inches.
>Jim Shaw, Trump Horns Screaming, 2017.Drawing, pencil on paper, 11 x 14 inches.
>Jim Shaw, Study for "The Potato Family", 2017.Drawing, pencil on paper, 12 x 11 inches.
>Jim Shaw, Study for Uncle Sam Cake Fight, 2017.Drawing, pencil on paper, 12 x 9 inches.
>Jim Shaw, Study for Top Hat Tire Man, 2017.Drawing, pencil on paper, 24 x 19 inches.
>Jim Shaw, Study Singing Horn, 2017.Drawing, pencil on paper, 9 x 12 inches.
>Jim Shaw, Study for Nixon Pyramid, 2018.Drawing, pencil on paper, 12 x 9 inches.
>Jim Shaw, Study for "To Serve Mankind" (small), 2018.Drawing, pencil on paper, 9 x 12 inches.
>Jim Shaw, Study for "Gate of Eden", 2018.Drawing, pencil on paper, 12 x 9 inches.
>Jim Shaw, Study for Reagan Painting, 2018.Drawing, pencil on paper, 10 x 15 inches.
>Jim Shaw, Study for Frankfurt School Small, 2018.Drawing, pencil on paper, 12 x 9 inches.
>Jim Shaw, LBJ Guru, 2018.Drawing, pencil on paper, 12 x 9 inches.
>Jim Shaw, Trump Dad Study, 2018.Drawing, pencil on paper, 9 x 12 inches.
>Jim Shaw, Edward Teller study, 2019.Drawing, pencil on paper, 12 x 9 inches.
>Jim Shaw, Study Playboy Bunnies Small, 2019.Drawing, pencil on paper, 9 x 12 inches.
>Jim Shaw, Come Inside Judge Study, 2019.Drawing, pencil on paper, 14 x 17 inches.
>Jim Shaw, Come Inside Study, 2019.Drawing, pencil on paper, 9 x 12 inches.
>Jim Shaw, Never Hear Sew To You study, 2019.Drawing, pencil on paper, 9 x 12 inches.
>Jim Shaw, Your Whirled Majesty Study, 2019.Drawing, pencil on paper, 9 x 12 inches.
>Jim Shaw, Although Tick Wonders Eyeshell Understant Study, 2019.Drawing, pencil on paper, 9 x 12 inches.
>Jim Shaw, Study for "One Percent for Art, 2019.Drawing, pencil on paper, 14 x 17 inches.
>Jim Shaw, Study for Mnemonic Device, 2019.Drawing, pencil on paper, 9 x 12 inches.
>Jim Shaw, Nixon Watch Study, 2019.Drawing, pencil on paper, 9 x 12 inches.
>Jim Shaw, Me with Your, 2019.Drawing, pencil on paper, 12 x 9 inches.
>Jim Shaw, Study for Serf Music, 2019.Drawing, pencil on paper, 9 x 12 inches.
>Jim Shaw, Study #1 for Bay of Pigs Thing, 2019.Drawing, pencil on paper, 9 x 12 inches.
>Jim Shaw, Study - Briefcase Cats, 2019.Drawing, pencil on paper, 12 x 9 inches.
>Jim Shaw, Study - Gremlins from the Kremlin, 2019.Drawing, pencil on paper, 17 x 14 inches.
>Jim Shaw, Get Get Study, 2019.Drawing, pencil on paper, 9 x 12 inches.
>Jim Shaw, Flake Boehner Hoods Study, 2019.Drawing, pencil on paper, 9 x 12 inches.
>Jim Shaw, Filing Cabinet Study, 2019.Drawing, pencil on paper, 9 x 12 inches.
>Jim Shaw, Study for No Bikini Atoll, 2020.Drawing, pencil on paper, 10 x 3/8 x 17 1/16 inches.
>Jim Shaw, Study #3 for Pilgrim's Progress mural in 9 pieces, joined, 2020.Drawing, pencil on paper, 37,5 x 89 inches.
>Jim Shaw, Study for Sausage of Democracy, 2020.Drawing, pencil on paper, 8 x 9 inches.
>Jim Shaw, Study for "Pandora's Box", 2020.Drawing, pencil on paper, 9 x 12 inches.
>Jim Shaw, Study for Pandora's Box, 2020.Drawing, pencil on paper, 19 x 24 inches.
>Jim Shaw, Study for The Adoration, 2020.Drawing, pencil on paper, 17 x 14 inches.
>Jim Shaw, Study for The Red Shoes, 2020.Drawing, pencil on paper, 17 x 8 1/4 inches.
>Jim Shaw, Study for Jimmie Olsen vs the Goddess of Reason, 2020.Drawing, pencil on paper, 12 x 18 inches.
>Jim Shaw, Study for The Golden Gate, 2020.Drawing, pencil on paper, 17 x 14 inches.
>Jim Shaw, Study for The Maze, 2020.Drawing, pencil on paper, 13 1/2 x 15 1/4 inches.
>Jim Shaw, Study for Magical Thinking Trump and Orb, 2020.Drawing, pencil on paper, 14 x 9 inches.
>Jim Shaw, Study 1 for Marionette (BG only), 2020.Drawing, pencil on paper, 14 x 9 inches.
>Jim Shaw, Hamlet + Danny Boy, 2021.Drawing, pencil on paper, 9 x 12 inches.
>Jim Shaw, "Sinatra, Dino, ED. G, Robinson, SH. Mann, L Ron, Hamlet" Pilgrims Cutouts Study Drawings, 2021.Drawing, pencil on paper, 9 x 12 inches.
>Jim Shaw, Tracy, Hepbum, Landsbury, D-Day, Etc. Pilgrams Cutouts Study , 2021.Drawing, pencil on paper, 9 x 12 inches.
>Jim Shaw, Mama C, McLuhan, D Camagie, D-Day, Pilgrims Cutouts Study, 2021.Drawing, pencil on paper, 9 x 12 inches.
>Jim Shaw, Rosemary, Sinatras, MFaithful, Pilgrims Cutouts Study, 2021.Drawing, pencil on paper, 9 x 12 inches.
>Jim Shaw, Co McCarthy, E Bergen, Hope & Crosby Pilgrams Cutouts Study, 2021.Drawing, pencil on paper, 9 x 12 inches.
>Jim Shaw, Johnny Ray, No Exit, Apes of God Etc. Sketch, 2021.Drawing, pencil on paper, 9 x 12 inches.
>Jim Shaw, Hairway to Steven Study #1, 2021.Drawing, pencil on paper, 12 x 9 inches.
>Jim Shaw, No Exit Study, 2021.Drawing, pencil on paper, 9 x 12 inches.
>Jim Shaw, Hemaphrodite + Jeff in Drag Study #0, 2021.Drawing, pencil on paper, 9 x 12 inches.
>Jim Shaw, "Pillars, Skinny Sinatra" Pilgrim Cutouts Study, 2021.Drawing, pencil on paper, 12 x 9 inches.
>Jim Shaw, "Proust, Grave Books, Hamlet" Related Pilgrim Cutouts Study, 2021.Drawing, pencil on paper, 12 x 9 inches.
>Jim Shaw, "Ruby Yacht" Pilgrim Cutouts Study, 2021.Drawing, pencil on paper, 9 x 12 inches.
>Jim Shaw, "Pillar of Salt, Price of Salt, So Big, The Nose" Pilgrim cutouts Study, 2021.Drawing, pencil on paper, 12 x 9 inches.
>Jim Shaw, "Mavhurian Candidate, Dorthy Kilgallen "Pilgrim Cutouts Study, 2021.Drawing, pencil on paper, 9 x 12 inches.
>Jim Shaw, "Skinny Sinatra + Notes" Pilgrim Cutouts Study, 2021.Drawing, pencil on paper, 12 x 9 inches.
>Jim Shaw, Down by the Old Maelstrom, 2022.Drawing, ppencil on paper, 18 x 19 inches.
>Jim Shaw, Cary Grant Study, 2022.Drawing, pencil on paper, 12 x 9 inches.
>Jim Shaw, Esther Williams/Jeff Chandler Head Study, 2022.Drawing, pencil on paper, 12 x 9 inches.
>Jim Shaw, Raquel Welch in Giant Hand Study #2, 2022.Drawing, pencil on paper, 13 x 34 1/2 inches.
>Jim Shaw, Horseman #4, 2022.Drawing, pencil on paper, 12 x 9 inches.
>Jim Shaw, Horseman #3, 2022.Drawing, pencil on paper, 12 x 9 inches.
>Jim Shaw, Horseman #2, 2022.Drawing, pencil on paper, 9 3/16 x 12 inches.
>Jim Shaw, Horseman #1, 2022.Drawing, pencil on paper, 14 x 11 inches.
>Jim Shaw, Raquel in Giant Hand Study #1, 2022.Drawing, pencil on paper, 14 5/8 x 17 inches.
>Jim Shaw, Jeff in Drag head Study, 2022.Drawing, pencil on paper, 9 x 12 inches.