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Tensile, erotic, enigmatic, Jack Shear’s cover photograph perfectly introduces a collaboration that, in our time of radical unsettlement, reorients us to shifting metaphors of awe, desire, and the human body. Like the Eleusinian Mysteries, these images and poems link the vivid, even ecstatic present to a shadowy suggestion of afterlife.
Jack Shear is a photographer, curator, and art collector living and working in Spencertown, NY. He previously collaborated with Anne Philbin on Drawn from Artists’ Collections, on view at The Drawing Center from Apr 24–Jun 12, 1999, and co-curated Twice Drawn at the Tang Teaching Museum with Director Ian Berry. Shear’s collection has previously been on view in the exhibition Borrowed Light: Selections from the Jack Shear Collection at the Tang Teaching Museum. Most recently, his drawings were on view at the Blanton Museum of Art in Austin, Texas. His own photographs are in the collections of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Shear is also President of the Ellsworth Kelly Foundation, and serves on the Drawings & Prints Committee at the Museum of Modern Art.
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Virginia Living by Konstantin Rega
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“These mesmerizing pages animate a choreography by two formidable artists given to the moods and immediacy of shadow and flesh. Forrest Gander’s magnificent, unflinching poetic self-contemplation holds a mirror to the living and the dead embodied in Jack Shear’s photographic anatomy of a male nude in voluptuous time and its entanglements.”