LSD and Old Hollywood Fuel Jim Shaw’s Trippy New L.A. Art Exhibit

The artist’s exhibition at Gagosian in Beverly Hills takes hallucinogenic inspiration from early adopters Esther Williams and Cary Grant

Artist Jim Shaw’s studio is a dream factory. It’s where images and ideas combine in unnatural and often surreal ways, conjuring visual puns like the smiling visage of Esther Williams superimposed with an image of her lover, actor Jeff Chandler, wearing a gown. A matching piece shows Chandler with a hermaphroditic image of Williams in the pose of Botticelli’s.

Both pieces were inspired by rumors that Williams ended their affair upon learning Chandler was a transvestite.Jim Shaw: Thinking the Unthinkables from Jan. 12 through Feb. 25. “I’ve been interested in sort of the history, along with politics, of LSD and psychedelics. I came across that Esther Williams had taken LSD, and that led me to reading her autobiography.

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