Kate Shepherd

Kate Shepherd was born in New York City in 1961. Her paintings have been shown in galleries and museums since 1996. She is represented by [http://www.galerielelong.com/ Galerie Lelong ] in New York City and Paris, [http://www.barbarakrakowgallery.com/bkg/index.php Barbara Krakow Gallery ] in Boston, and [http://www.anthonymeierfinearts.com/ Anthony Meier Fine Art ] in San Francisco.

Style

Kate Shepherd is an American minimalist painter known for her original use of intense color, scale and a delicate yet descriptive painted line, Shepherd's work has references to architecture, gesture and portraiture.

In her painting, she often superimposes a matrix of delicate lines on vibrant fields of color to depict the planar structure of interior or exterior spaces. The paintings are pared-down and bold in composition, but betray an emotional, humanist sensibility.

Shepherd's pieces are built on spatial complexity with simple and clean surfaces. The surface of the works are flat with an implied depth. The occupied spaces are recognizable and familiar. Shepherd's use of perspective bring a three-dimensional vision to a two-dimensional plane.

Shepherd's paintings typically consist of a combination of different panels to comprise a whole. Each panel is coated in seamless, high-gloss paint. The color relationships of the panels are tuned to create a unified light. Delicate lines are then painted on the grouping of panels, creating a space - interior or exterior. Repeated, linear patterns in perspective move over the painted surfaces to often connote water, steps, wallpaper, etc.

Exhibitions

Shepherd has had solo exhibitions at the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, Portland, OR; Otis College of Art & Design, Los Angeles, CA; the Lannan Foundation, Santa Fe, NM; and the Chinati Foundation, Marfa, TX, among many gallery exhibitions.

Group exhibitions have included the International Print Center, NY; Orthodoxes - Hétérodoxes: Choisir sa Ligne, Hotel de Sponeck, L'Allan, Scene Nationale de Montbéliard, Montbéliard, France; Concurrent exhibition at Maison des Arts et des Loisirs, Sochaux, France; Espacio Interior [Inner Space] , Sala Alcala 31 de la Comunidad de Madrid, Spain; Twice Drawn, Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Saratoga Springs, NY; Minimalist Art Now, Elvehjem Museum, Madison, WI; InVisible Silence, David Winton Bell Gallery, List Art Center, Brown University, Providence, RI; Beginning Here: 101 Ways, Visual Arts Gallery, School of Visual Arts, NY; Clarity of Vision: Minimalist Prints and Drawings, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI; New Jersey Center for Visual Arts, Summit, NJ; Work: Shaker Design and Recent Art, Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY; Videos by Artists Who Don't Make Videos, Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh, Scotland; Trace, Bard Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY; Animal Tales: Contemporary Bestiary, Whitney Museum of American Art, NY; and Imaginary Beings, Exit Art, NY, among many others.

She is represented in the permanent collections of the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, France; the [http://www.dia.org/default.asp?menu=main&main=yes Detroit Institute of Arts] , the [http://www.ima-art.org/imaGeneral.asp Indianapolis Museum of Art] , the [http://www.lannan.org/ Lannan Foundation] , and the [http://www.mfa.org/ Museum of Fine Arts] in Boston.

External links

Kate Shepherd: 'No Title Here' Gallery Lelong show review in Frieze Magazine (2007)
* [http://www.frieze.com/shows/review/kate_shepherd/]

The Paintings of Kate Shepherd at the Portland Institute of Contemporary Art (2001)
* [http://www.portlandmercury.com/portland/Content?oid=23768&category=22127]

Article on Shepherd's residency at the Lannan Foundation at Santa Fe (2000)
* [http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1248/is_1_88/ai_58616944]

Kate Shepherd at Boesky & Callery - New York, New York - Review of Exhibitions - Brief Article (1997)
* [http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1248/is_n9_v85/ai_19785406]