Installation view, Alan Shields, Paula Cooper Gallery, 155 Wooster Street, New York, January 9 - February 1, 1986. © 2025 Alan Shields / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Courtesy Paula Cooper Gallery, New York. Photo: Geoffrey Clements

Installation view, Alan Shields, Paula Cooper Gallery, 155 Wooster Street, New York, January 9 - February 1, 1986. © 2025 Alan Shields / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Courtesy Paula Cooper Gallery, New York. Photo: Geoffrey Clements

Installation view, Alan Shields, Paula Cooper Gallery, 155 Wooster Street, New York, January 9 - February 1, 1986. © 2025 Alan Shields / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Courtesy Paula Cooper Gallery, New York. Photo: Geoffrey Clements

Alan Shields
"Subway Series" 1984-85
Acrylic, cotton thread on canvas w/ cotton belting and glass beads
70 1/2" x 71"

Alan Shields
"Keeping Youth" 1984-85
Acrylic, cotton thread on canvas w/ cotton belting and sewn fragments
70 1/2" x 114"

Alan Shields
"Big, Bang Theory" 1985
Acrylic, cotton thread on canvas w/ cotton belting
70 1/2" x 71"

Alan Shields
"Kansas Metaball (or D.Y.L.O.S?) 1985-86
Acrylic, canvas, aluminum tubing, bolts & nuts, cotton thread
115" x 130"

Alan Shields 
"Eccentric Roller" 1985
Acrylic, cotton thread on canvas w/ cotton belting
71" x 71"

Alan Shields
"Tool Lagoon (Circulating Jelly)" 1985
Acrylic, cotton thread on canvas w/ cotton belting"
71 1/4" x 70 1/2"