Jim Shaw: Family & relationships Betsy throws herself into the

Betsy throws herself into the conflict as a nurse

was the first to describe coping as an on-going effort to manage life challenges

But she also knows the road to acceptance as an unwed mother in an Amish community will be long and hard

more than one people who discovered it

In the middle of the pain you didn't cause

Jim Shaw: Family & relationships Betsy throws herself into theBlending the reflected cultural climate of his adopted home, Los Angeles, with the multi layered world of American popular culture, Jim Shaw (b. 1952) creates rich, dream like worlds within distinct bodies of work. Addressing, for the first time, how the artist's oeuvre inter relates, this substantial monograph argues that the artist's seemingly disparate series actually function together to present a lucid and insightful portrait of America today.