This
Canadian artist’s work is, in a word, weird. His arsenal of paintings, text
panels, silkscreens and photo collages swing wildly between
conceptualist-inflected Pop Art, and odder still, a style that could be
described as a throw back to 19th-century Symbolism and Pre-Raphaelite
painting—with a touch of Munch thrown in for good measure. His best-known
subjects consists of of long-haired, androgynous dudes, who appear to have
escaped from an ’70s heavy metal band. Some of them are pictured with bloodied
mouths, some are seen strung up by nooses. Wistful, melancholic, romantic and
perverse, Shearer’s work seems to be longing for the sort of lost youth that
burns brightest when it burns out.
Venue name:
Galerie Eva Presenhuber
Address: 39
Great Jones St
New York
Cross
street: between Lafayette St and Bowery
Opening
hours: Wed–Sat 11am–6pm; Sunday noon–6pm
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