Oliver Jeffers: Works on Paper

Praise Shadows Art Gallery is thrilled to present 10 new and never before exhibited works on paper by Oliver Jeffers. Reflecting the artist's signature visual style incorporating hand-drawn text, imagery, and found paper materials, the original and unique works range from introspective to humorous commentary on the quotidian.

Oliver Jeffers (b. 1977, lives in Belfast, Northern Ireland and Brooklyn, NY) is a visual artist and author working in painting, bookmaking, illustration, collage, performance and sculpture. Curiosity, perspective, the power of storytelling, and humor are underlying themes throughout Jeffers's practice. While investigating the ways the human mind understands its world, and place within that world, his work also functions as comic relief in the face of futility.  

Current directions for his art-making include the imaginary lines across land and in the sky. With the former, Jeffers— with a deep suspicion of Nationalism, Patriotism and Isolationism, born from growing up with the political and national uncertainty of a turbulent Belfast in the 1970s and 80s— picks apart the powerful story of human made borders, of how people treat other people. Jeffers uses the construct of star constellations to take a longer lens approach to humanity’s story.