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Article: Jeremy Shaw: Best Minds Part One.
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- C: International Contemporary Art
- Article date:
- September 22, 2007
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Or Gallery, Vancouver
Jeremy Shaw's exhibition at Vancouver's Or Gallery, Best Minds Part One, is a continuation of his interest in and exploration of subcultures, specifically youth subcultures and their function as a form of transcendence. But whereas in such earlier works as DMT (2004) and Anti-Psych (2005), Shaw was content to mediate the representations of subcultures, with Best Minds Part One he adds a turn of the screw, further layering his representations through a historical sensibility.
It works in this way. Best Minds Part One is made up of two works or bodies of work. In Or's main gallery were dozens of posters silk screened with images of, ...