John Shorb

John Shorb (b. 1978, Joint Base Andrews, MD) makes drawings and prints, focused on ideas of cultural amnesia: what is forgotten, what is remembered, what leaves an impression, what allows for suppression. Shorb examines symbols and stories that people hold most dearly and how those images betray and reinforce the narratives they are meant to convey.

Shorb is a well known figure in the worlds of fine at printmaking and papermaking having served as the Director of Dieu Donné, a non-profit art space responsible for the renaissance of hand paper making in New York City.  Recent exhibitions include Turchin Center of Art, Appalachian State University, Boone, North Carolina, ZieherSmith Gallery, Nashville, TN, Hunterdon Art Museum, Clinton, New Jersey, and XX, GOLESTANI Gallery, Düsseldorf, Germany.  Shorb’s work can be found in the public collections of Asheville Art Museum, Art Museum at the University of Memphis, Brooks Museum of Art, New-York Presbyterian Health System, New York University, Turchin Center of Art, Appalachian State University, and University of Mississippi Museum and Historic Houses.  John Shorb lives and works between Brooklyn, NY and Memphis , TN.