Cameron Shaw
Barbara Krakow Gallery
In Cameron Shaw’s most recent show, his assisted readymades, inspired by Duchamp and Magritte, seemed to levitate. The artist’s carefully selected commonplace objects defied gravity with the help of well-placed magnets, in work that toyed with the psychology of perception while revealing the tricks of the artist as self-styled magician. Among the nine such works were a fakir’s rope ascending to the sky, a black derby floating in a vitrine, cigars and pipes suspended from strings, and a quill pen that appeared to write a letter (in which a son describes his father’s death to his brother) by