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A 500 piece puzzle featuring the stunning artwork of acclaimed Pittsburgh-based artist Devan Shimoyama. 500 piece puzzle featuring the artwork of Devan Shimoyama. In Témperance (2022) Devan Shimoyama portrays himself as a translucent and Bejeweled blue angel pouring liquid from one container to another- echoing the Témperance tarot card that depicts water diluting wine as a symbolic act of restraint. Ironic perhaps in that his use of color and materials are, more often than not, gloriously unrestrained. Abounding in fur, feathers, glitter, rhinestones, and sequins, Shimoyama engages with mythology, spiritual traditions, and classical composition to depict the Black, queer, male body as both desirable and desirous.

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""If you have a puzzler on your list, it's hard to find an original gift. This is it."" -- Wirecutter, The New York Times

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Devan Shimoyama lives in Pittsburgh, PA and is represented by Kavi Gupta Gallery in Chicago. Shimoyama's work has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions throughout the United States. His solo exhibition Cry, Baby was presented at the Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, from October 13, 2018-March 17, 2019. In this exhibition, new and existing works by Shimoyama were juxtaposed along with a rotating selection of Warhol's Ladies and Gentlemen paintings from the 1970s. This juxtaposition offered a unique opportunity not only to interrogate the conversation between these two artists' work, but also to consider generational evolutions in the realm of how issues related to gender, sexuality, race and violence are portrayed in contemporary art.

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