Kate Shepherd

Kate Shepherd (born 1961) is an American artist based in New York City known for her application of oil paint upon highly saturated layers of enamel.[1]

For the New Zealand women's rights campaigner, see Kate Sheppard.
Kate Shepherd
Born1961 (age 59–60)
New York City, New York
NationalityAmerican
Known forPainting

Education

Painting
Shepherd's “Stage Manager's Passage, Moss Blue Green ", 2003. Oil and Enamel on panels, 76 x 47 inches

The surfaces of Shepherd’s paintings are glossy, rich, and warm, even when the colors are cool. Made on large wood panels, the works feature compositions of thin white lines in oil applied to unmodulated fields of enamel. These lines appear chaotic at first—they form jagged angles, jointed curves, and sprays like fallen pins—but on sustained viewing, familiar shapes emerge.[2]

Up until 2015, Shepherd often began her work in SketchUp to build three dimensional models. Recently, the artist has begun using etching ink to apply line work onto panels without a pre-drawn plan.[3] The dark reflective surfaces and luminous ink feel as if they are a digital screen. The image, derived from both existing and imaginary forms, develops from specific reference sources. Whereas a sculptor might make a drawing to depict form on a 2D plane, Shepherd creates her paintings by drawing virtual sculpture.[4]

Editions
We Were the New Americans, 2007, Enamel on pine, galvanized sheet metal with screws, 14 7/8 x 6 1/8 x 7/8 inches, edition of 12

Shepherd also makes editioned works more singularly about color using screen printing, etchings, digital printing, linocuts, collage and painted wood. Some include triangles based in Josef Albers’ pedagogy. The wood works span from stackable toy blocks to jigsaw puzzles to mobiles. Her editioned sculpture and more monochromatic works achieve a fragmented sense of collapsed geometry. She is known for her mastery of optical intrigue and the psychology of space.[5]

In her editioned works, Kate Shepherd explores relationships between painted sculpture and sculptural painting. Using her preferred materials of wood and enamel paint, she chooses the colors and that are favorites of the artist and that have associations with her childhood. The titles of the editioned work, for example, We Were The New Americans, originate from the artist's childhood memories.[6]

Exhibitions

Shepherd has had solo exhibitions at the Phillips Collection, Washington D.C.;[7] Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, Portland, Oregon;[8] Otis College of Art & Design, Los Angeles, California; the Lannan Foundation, Santa Fe, New Mexico; and the Chinati Foundation, Marfa, Texas.

Solo exhibition,Surveillance, March 12 - April 18, 2020, GALERIE LELONG & Co . New York

Collections

References
  1. "Kate Shepherd artist page". Galerie Lelong & Co., New York. November 4, 2017.
  2. "Emily Hall on Kate Shepherd". artforum.com.
  3. "Kate Shepherd: Battlezone". Anthony Meier Fine Arts.
  4. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2015-12-22. Retrieved 2015-12-12.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  5. "Kate Shepherd - Artspace". Artspace.
  6. "On Color and Puzzles: Interview With Kate Shepherd". HuffPost.com. 6 December 2017.
  7. "MINUS SPACE | Robert Ryman, Richard Pousette-Dart, Kate Shepherd, The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC". www.minusspace.com. Retrieved 2019-10-18.
  8. Ellertson, Karrin. "Kate Shepherd". Portland Mercury. Retrieved 2019-10-18.
  9. http://art.seattleartmuseum.org/people/16275/kate-shepherd
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