This ink painting by illustrator, author and publisher Leanne Shapton is selected from original pages of her 2012 graphic novel Swimming Studies. The novel gathers fragments of text and imagery that together form a nuanced archive of Shapton’s experience as a competitive swimmer in her adolescence, her voluntary ‘retirement,’ and the transferral of discipline to an art practice. This eponymous chapter of the book is made up entirely of gestural, abstract imagery of the body swimming.
Leanne Shapton, b. 1973, is a Canadian author, artist and publisher based in New York City. She is the co-founder, with photographer Jason Fulford, of J&L Books, an internationally-distributed not-for-profit imprint specializing in art and photography books. Shapton’s Swimming Studies won the 2012 National Book Critic’s Circle Award for autobiography, and was long listed for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year 2012. Her works have appeared in diverse newspapers and magazines such as The New York Times, The Paris Review and The New Yorker. Shapton was part of the 2018 Man Booker Prize jury.
Ink on paper
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Custom framing available: solid maple frame with artwork floated on archival mat board
