Jeremy Shaw
Towards Universal Pattern Recognition (The Yoga Thing. Sun-Times. April 13 1970)
About the Artwork
In his series Towards Universal Pattern Recognition, Jeremy Shaw presents reframed archival photographs of subjects experiencing various states of spiritual, hedonistic, or technological catharsis. Placed under custom-machined prismatic acrylic that has been uniquely designed to focus on one element of each photograph, the photos distort and repeat, skewing the documentary image and creatively alluding to the subject’s altered state of consciousness.
Towards Universal Pattern Recognition (The Yoga Thing. Sun-Times. April 13 1970)
2021
Found Press Photo, Custom-Cut Acrylic, Chrome
Unique
16.9” x 15.1” x 6.3”
Estimate: $30,000
Courtesy the artist and Macaulay + Co. Fine Arts, Vancouver
About Jeremy Shaw
Jeremy Shaw (b. 1977, North Vancouver, BC) works in a variety of media to explore altered states and the cultural and scientific practices that aspire to map transcendental experience. Shaw has had solo exhibitions at Centre Pompidou, Paris, MoMA PS1, New York, Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin, and MONA, Tasmania, and been featured in international surveys such as the 57th Venice Biennale, 16th Lyon Biennale and Manifesta 11, Zurich. In 2016 he was awarded the Sobey Art Award and in 2018 was artist-in-residence at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles. Works by Shaw are held in public collections worldwide including the Museum of Modern Art, New York, Centre Pompidou, Paris, and Tate Modern, London.
Photo: Alex DeBrabent
