Steven Shearer

This first monograph on Canadian artist Steven Shearer plunges the reader into the phenomenally versatile work he creates based on material in his extensive image bank of some 36,000 JPEGs of clippings, Xeroxes, and found photos. Shearer’s obsession is his own development as a teenaged boy, and issues around teen identity and social class. The 67 works presented here – a mix of paintings, posters, highly intricate photo-collages, drawings and written poems, from his 2007 exhibitions at Ikon and The Power Plant galleries – while animated by the culture of Heavy Metal music, ultimately reveal the “need to belong” that helps define the human condition, especially during adolescence. Excellent interpretive essays by curators Nigel Prince, Helena Reckitt and Nancy Tousley.

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René Daniëls

The story of Dutch artist René Daniëls is inspiring and tragic: he burst onto the scene in 1977 with paintings and drawings that broke the “serious art” mold, had a disabling stroke in 1987 at the age of 37, and hasn’t made art since. His paintings tackled subject matter like books, a phonograph record or a film camera with broad, loose brushstrokes and evocative colors, connecting the paintings of the 1970s with a more expressionistic, “punk” style. With some reproductions of drawings and paintings, writings by Daniels and interviews with the artist. Accompanies a retrospective at the De Pont Museum of Contemporary Art.

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