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U.S. Museum Exhibition of British Artist David Shrigley Shrigley ". . . draws with a beautiful clear line yet it's his ideas that take on physical weight ," according to Jonathan Jones of the Guardian. Included in the exhibition will be drawings, photographs, and sculptures of the Glasgow-based artist. Shrigley's hilarious and disturbing doodles, sculptures, and anecdotes depict the world as an absurd place. He embraces the paranoias, obsessions (stalking is a favorite theme), insecurities, moral conundrums, preoccupations, and anxieties of everyday life. Everyone is fair game for his humor, from the British Royal Family to his peers in the art world. From the childlike renderings and messy handwriting of his drawings to the spontaneous "public" projects documented in photographs and his playful sculptures, his work is anti-monumental and whimsical, but inherently sincere. "David Shrigley takes the world as it is and provides a humorous strategy for getting on with it," according to exhibition curator and museum director Amada Cruz. In addition to the Shrigley show, there will be an exhibition of works on paper, dating from the 1960s to the present, including work by a diverse group of artists such as Rosemarie Trockel, Carroll Dunham, Raymond Pettibon, Kiki Smith, Jim Nutt, and Shahzia Sikander. The exhibition is drawn from the Marieluise Hessel Collection on permanent loan to the Center for Curatorial Studies. Amada Cruz will curate both exhibitions.
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