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>> This survey of paintings and drawings completed between 2022 and 2024, begins with a reverie on the automobile, which serves as the jumping off point for a body of work that is by turns profound and absurd.
"Shrosbree's clever riff is to situate 'the car' as the central nervous system for an ineffable yet coherent dream hieroglyph. Using bold primary colors, Shrosbree depicts Rube Goldberg schematics of Western imagination. [...] A story surrounded by ellipses forms in the mind. Shrosbree innately understands that the West can only be considered and never grasped, like a desert koan.
Works of cars in desolate white spaces, under lonely gas station lights, in the dark, create a kind of flicker motion akin to driving long distances. Anyone who’s driven across the country on Interstate 10 has probably had a moment somewhere in western New Mexico or Eastern California where the hypnotic monotony causes a dreamy déjà vu or even a sand-swept ego death. "Am I dead?" you wonder serenely and unbothered as you blur past the purgatory of Barstow. "
Neil Fauerso, Glasstire
With a new essay by curator and arts writer Katy Kim, and an in-depth conversation between Jim Shrosbree and editor Ryan Standfest.
Limited printing of 300 copies
Jim Shrosbree (b. 1947, Elmhurst, Illinois) received his MFA in Ceramics from the University of Montana, Missoula. His work has been exhibited widely and is included in the permanent collections of major institutions such as the Detroit Institute of Arts, the Des Moines Art Center, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Eli and Edythe Broad Museum of Art, the University of Iowa Stanley Museum of Art, the Mint Museum, and the Daum Museum of Contemporary Art. Shrosbree has received awards and fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Iowa Arts Council, and the NEA/Idaho Art and Humanities Commission. His artist residencies include Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts, MacDowell, Yaddo, the American Academy in Rome Residency Program, Knox College, and the Edward Albee Foundation. He has been a visiting artist at numerous institutions nationwide. Shrosbree is Professor of Art at Maharishi International University in Fairfield, Iowa.
Katy Kim is a curator and writer based in the United States. Most recently, Kim was the Jeanne and Ralph Graham Curatorial Fellow at Cranbrook Art Museum in Metro Detroit. Selected museum shows include Akea Brionne: A Dreaming Hour (2026), the first museum exhibition on the contemporary lens and fiber artist, and Labyrinth / Laboratory (2026), a permanent exhibition highlighting significant Cranbrook Academy of Art Alumni, among others. In the summer of 2025, Kim curated the second annual Detroit Art & Design Warehouse Fair, including over 100 artists and designers in a former paper sorting factory. She holds a BA in Art History from Northwestern University and an MA in Art History from the Courtauld Institute of Art. Her writing can be found in the Brooklyn Rail, BOMB Magazine, and Sixty Inches of Center.
