Saturday, April 25, 1pm

NO TIME WASTED

Book signing and conversation with artist-psychiatrist Dr. Ernest Shaw

Prolific artist and Kingston-based psychiatrist Ernest Shaw has documented 5 decades of a unique, multi-faceted career in the hardcover book No Time Wasted, a collection of photographs, essays, and poetry. In collaboration with Rough Draft books and the O+ Festival, on Saturday, April 25th, from 1 to 3 at the O+ Exchange space at 334 Wall Street, Kingston, Dr. Shaw will sign copies of No Time Wasted and discuss his remarkable life and work with musician and writer Robert Burke Warren. Admission is free.

Ernest Shaw started his career in psychiatry, and simultaneously began his exploration in art-making as a vehicle for engaging his ongoing curiosity and focus on creativity and transformation, which he considers in both making art, writing, and helping patients engage the sense of change that psychotherapy and mindfulness can bring to our lives. In 1974, as his career in art quickly got traction and acclaim, he chose to put his psychiatry career on hold, devoting the next 15 years exclusively to an artist’s life. With unbridled curiosity, the protean Shaw continues to explore and master various new mediums and aesthetic challenges, engaging the life of artist and psychotherapist as sharing a commonality in that both are about paying attention, and transformation. Shaw states that “it is not what we see, but how we see”  that matters. He lives aligned with a sense that  “wisdom is not just the multitude of ideas and stories, but action, engaging directly with the world.”  He has participated in many solo and group exhibitions at galleries and museums around the country,  has had 10 one man museum shows, including the Williams College Art Museum. His work and public sculptures are in nearly 50 museum, municipal and university collections, as well as major private collections like Nelson Rockefeller Kykuit, in Pocantico NY.  Over the years he exhibited large outdoor work at many venues including Storm King Art Center, Washington DC International Sculpture Conference, Art on the Riverfront in NYC, and the Grounds for Sculpture outside Princeton, NJ. Paintings, small sculptures, and drawings can be seen at North Front Gallery, 52 North Front St., Kingston, NY.