Dream Object: Vise Head Jim Shaw’sdrawings, painting and sculptures combine pop culture with the inner workings of his imagination. He is a gifted story teller as well as a talented draftsman and painter. Well know for a series of dream drawings in which he recounted his nightly dreams as small scale works, Shaw has continued to transform that project into paintings, sculptures and now a room-sized installation. In the East Gallery, painted on large shipping tubes, we enter a fantasy world featuring Indian rituals in the American landscape. Creating a pathway through which viewers travel, the enclosed room brings visitors into the experience. In the larger West Gallery, Shaw uses two old theatrical backdrops as the background for a painting which hangs floor to ceiling. In it a group of businessmen congregate in front of a futuristic locomotive, pondering the demise of the American dream. Through a hole in a second backdrop where a large red web has been painted, Shaw creates a surreal scene in which a trio of 3-D elves contemplate a glowing object in front of a painted fire (Source)
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