Jim Shaw

Emily Tsingou Gallery is delighted to present the second one-person exhibition of Los Angeles based artist Jim Shaw.

Since mid 1980’s, Jim Shaw has produced work influenced by a variety of diverse sources: dream imagery, pulp fiction, thrift store painting, underground comics, and religious cults. His arresting and disquieting imagery is undertaken across a range of media including painting, drawing, photography and sculpture. Jim Shaw’s recent work focuses on a new, pseudo religion: ‘Oism’. As the artist has commented:

“Born in the Finger Lakes Religion of upstate New York in the mid- 1800’s, Oism ‘s beliefs included the notion of a female deity, of time going backwards, spiritual transience, and a prohibition on figurative art”.

Cloaked in American mythology and puritanical motifs, this exhibition follows Shaw’s inventiveness through a further surrogate reincarnation of the artist, and explores the pseudo religion Oism and New Oist movie poster paintings that are a combination of formalist compositions with self-destruction imagery. There is no one theme at work but a series of inter-related uses of the face and figurative cartoons in combination with gestural, ‘automatic’ drawing and painting.

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