Rob Shaw
You’re invited to join the Jasper Project and special guest artist Rob Shaw on Wednesday, October 21 from 6 - 8 pm at Motor Supply Bistro for a casual reception celebrating the opening of Jasper’s new Rob Shaw exhibition at the bistro. Motor Supply Bistro is located at 920 Gervais Street, and Shaw’s art will be featured in the space through the end of 2026.
Shaw is an award-winning fine artist from Columbia, SC. A graduate of the University of SC with years of experience in the local art scene, Shaw is highly respected for his palette-knife paintings, custom framing, art handling and hanging services, and monthly palette-knife classes.
When he was 15-years-old, Shaw aspired to become a professional artist and began painting daily. As a studio art major at USC, he studied painting and began selling his work. After college, Shaw managed a large art gallery, and in 2018 he opened Rob Shaw Framing and Gallery.
Shaw began his artistic journey by creating realistic paintings that could take as long as a month to complete. Shifting from paint brushes to palette knives allowed him to paint more loosely and quickly. The results were transformational: not only was he able to create paintings more efficiently, but he also found greater joy in the process and began to sell more of his work.
Shaw never considers any painting a failure: "Mistakes lend history to the canvas," he says, and he often paints new works over old ones. At times he intentionally alters an image to lend character to a painting; he will, for example, drag a sheet of plexiglass across a wet painting to achieve a certain effect.
What Rob loves most about being an artist is “the challenge of taking a blank canvas and turning it into a work of art that people will enjoy for years to come.” Equally important are his relationships with other artists and art collectors.
Rob Shaw Gallery and Framing is at 2123 Park Street in the Elmwood Park Neighborhood.