by David Pagel (Author)
This is the first major monograph on the paintings of Jim Shaw (b. 1952), whose work blends the reflected cultural climate of his adopted home, Los Angeles with the multi-layered world of American popular culture to create rich dream-like worlds.
Author Biography
David Pagel is an art critic and curator. He has been a regular contributor to the Los Angeles Times, where he has published more than 2000 reviews, features, and interviews since 1991. Pagel is on the faculty of Claremont Graduate University, and he is an adjunct curator at the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill, New York. Pagel was the recipient of an Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship in Contemporary Arts Criticism in 1990 and was a Macgeorge Fellow at the University of Melbourne in Australia in 2002. He is the author of Unfinished Business: Paintings from the '70s and '80s by Ross Blecker, Eric Fischl, and David Salle.