Alexx Shaw

Alexx Shaw is an LA-based curator and writer. DOB: April 29, 1984.

Biography

Alexxandra Lauren Shaw, was born in Los Angeles, California to mother Suzanne, an accountant, and John Shaw, President of the St. Louis Rams football team. Shaw was raised between Cape Cod, Massachusetts and Los Angeles.

Alexx Shaw critiques mostly Fine Art, but focuses her work on the ideologies, theories, and philosophies of the White Cube gallery space and the art market. Taking her inspiration from Brian O'Doherty's "Inside the White Cube: Ideologies of the Gallery Space," she relates these ideologies and theories to how the viewer interprets them, asking questions on autonomy, History within the museological institution, and perspective.

From 2002 - 2006, Shaw attended Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles where she co-created The Ephemeral Gallery with fellow artist Audrey Haworth. The Ephemeral Gallery was intended to create a community around an art centre in an interactive way. It moved from place to place each month and received a small following in Culver City, California. In 2006, Shaw moved to Manchester, England to receive her Masters from the University of Manchester in Art Gallery and Museum Studies. In 2007 she overlapped her PhD with her Masters and began at the Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts (IDSVA), a new program designed to grant doctorates to working art professionals.

From 2006 to present, Shaw has written for magazines including Flavorpill, White Hot Magazine of Contemporary Art, and Valley Scene Magazine. She has curated multiple exhibitions both in the US and abroad, and was recently named an expert in White Cube philosophy by Dr. George Smith, director of IDSVA after her MA dissertation "Ecstasy: in and About the White Cube."

Shaw currently resides in Los Angeles and works as a freelance curator, art critic, and PhD candidate in Philosophy, Aesthetics, and Art Theory.

Publications

White Hot Magazine of Contemporary Art

"The Dialogic Connection: a Freelance Curator’s Experience, Narratives of the Perverse: NO ONE UNDER 18: the Boundaries of Disclaimers, LA’s Art Scene Moving into a New Era: the Opening of the Broad Contemporary Art Museum", "Impure Micallef: a Review of solo exhibition Impure Idols", "Mondo Marveloso: an Interview with Tom Corrigan, Review of travelling exhibition Indigo: a Blue to Dye For"

Flavorpill Magazine

"Soundwalk", "Hans Burkhardt", "Narratives of the Perverse: NO ONE UNDER 18", "Fridays off the 405", "Marcel Duchamp Redux", "Wangetchi Mutu at the Hammer Museum", "Slideshow: Diane Arbus at the Hubert’s Museum"

Valley Scene Magazine

Review of Avita Co-op fashion show for Earth Day, Review of Joseph Domingo fashion show, Review of Time to Shine fashion show, Review of Vanessa Carlton’s CD Heroes and Thieves

Exhibitions

"Field of Dreams". Bolsky Gallery, Los Angeles. 2004

"Community Collaborative". Dr. Paul Carlson Park, Culver City. 2005

"Negotiation and Policy". Dr. Paul Carlson Park, Culver City. 2005

"Weather or Not"(www.theephemeralgallery.com). 2005

"Fill in the " ": Reconciling Art Practices". Bolsky Gallery, Los Angeles. 2005

"A Nomadic Moment". Tea Forest, Culver City. 2006

"43 Names: 2006 Otis Fine Art BFA Senior Show". Fine Arts building at Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles. 2006

"The Uncertainty of Identity: the Biographies of Things" Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, UK. 2007

"The Dialogic Connection" TreePeople facility, Beverly Hills. 2008

References

[http://whitehotmagazine.com/whitehot_city.cfm?city=14 White Hot Magazine of Contemporary Art; LA section] [http://whitehotmagazine.com/whitehot_city.cfm?city=16 White Hot Magazine of Contemporary Art; London section] [http://flavorpill.com/losangeles/search?search_query=alexx+shaw Flavorpill Magazine] [http://flavorpill.com/losangeles/events/2008/9/13/linda-kunik-things-fall-apart-and-deforestation-and-the-land Preview of "The Dialogic Connection] [http://www.ginaclyne.com/pubexha.htm Gina Clyne Online] [http://www.whitecubephilosophy.com Alexx Shaw's website]