USA, b. 1988

Jack Shure has exhibited in Guangzhou, New York, Tokyo, Berlin, Chicago, Amsterdam, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, and Taipei. His paintings reconstruct layered experiences of time that run through his life, with images that move beyond the depiction of specific moments or memories to interweave the past, the present, and an as-yet-unrealized future into a singular world. Shure focuses on points where contrasting emotions—such as beauty and ugliness—collide, visually capturing the tension and shifting currents that arise from these oppositions and guiding viewers to reconsider familiar emotions in new ways. For him, images are fluid, organic structures in constant transformation, and while his work originates in personal experience, it ultimately asks how our perceptions of “beauty” evolve and generate new meanings within the sensory worlds he constructs.