Jack Shure

Jack Shure's work is a distilled reflection of the significant moments, lessons, and inspirations of his life. Pulling imagery from his childhood, current experiences, and perhaps the future simultaneously, he aims for his pictures to tell a story that is not obvious but requires a moment of contemplation and discovery. His work pushes boundaries of ugliness and beauty, inviting the observer to recognize that one cannot exist without the other. To him, beauty is a choice by way of transmutation, existing only through perception. Because of this, his work is organic, constantly evolving and transforming itself.

Collect Bean: What does growth mean to you? 

Jack Shure: Change, the ability to face oneself and seek truth through uncomfortableness.  

Collect Bean: If you had to describe your work in only three words, what would they be?

Jack Shure: Out Of Control 

Collect Bean: What is the kindest thing someone can tell you about your work?

Jac Shure: You inspire me to express myself authentically.

Collect Bean: What is something you do to stay focused?

Jack Shure: To be in the practice of repeating things that I am grateful to myself everyday.

Collect Bean: Do you have a saying that you live by?

 Jack Shure: ‘’You ain’t going to learn what you don’t want to know.’’ - John Barlow