KATE SHEPHERD
Schroeder Practices
April 17–May 31, 2008
Reception: Thursday, Apr. 17, 6–8 PM
View select works.
Dieu Donné is pleased to present an exhibition of new works by painter Kate Shepherd. A full-color publication with essay by Maxwell Heller is available.
Shepherd developed a new body of work in handmade paper through the Lab Grant Program for mid-career artists. These luminous, structural forms reveal another lineage of Shepherd’s exploration of color and the desire for a clear, communicative, and resolved language in painting. Her planar structures and interior/exterior spaces find seamless translation in paper, developed meticulously with collaborators Rachel Gladfelter and Megan Moorhouse. Shepherd concluded the residency with the creation of Rondeau, an edition of fifteen vibrant carnival flags; lace patterns of unmeasured triangles fit together to reveal interlocking diamonds. Shepherd’s work at Dieu Donné has thus far been featured prominently in several on-site exhibitions, the Editions and Artists Books Fair (EAB), and a juried exhibition at International Print Center New York (IPCNY).
About the artist
Kate Shepherd was born in 1961 in New York City, where she currently lives and works. Her numerous solo exhibitions include: In In the Spring, Anthony Meier Fine Art (San Francisco, 2008); No Title Here, Galerie Lelong (New York, 2007); Wire and Thread, Galerie Lelong (Paris, 2006); Puzzles Cards and Blocks, Barbara Krakow Gallery (Boston, 2005); Lannan Foundation (Santa Fe, 1999); and Chinati Foundation (Marfa, Texas, 1996).
Shepherd has participated in many group exhibitions, including: Espacio Interior/Inner Space, Sala Alcalá 31 de la Comunidad de Madrid (Madrid, 2007); Twice Drawn, Tang Teaching Museum and Gallery (Saratoga Springs, New York, 2006); Minimalist Art Now, Chazen Museum of Art (Madison, Wisconsin, 2005); Clarity of Vision: Minimalist Prints and Drawings, Milwaukee Art Museum (Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 2002).
She is the recipient of many honors and awards, including: Lannan Foundation Artist Residency (Sante Fe, 1999); Chianti Foundation Residency (Marfa, Texas, 1995, 1997); MacDowell Studio Residency (Peterborough, New Hampshire, 1993, 1994, 1998); and Paula Rhodes Award, School of Visual Arts (New York, 1992).
Her work is included in the public collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Indianapolis Museum of Art; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris; Detroit Institute of the Arts; and the New York Public Library, as well as the corporate collections of JP Morgan and Associates, New York; and Progressive Corporation, Mayfield Village, Ohio.
For more information, please contact Catherine C. Parker, Gallery Director at
(212) 226-0573.
Gallery hours Tuesday–Friday, 10–6 pm, Saturday, 12–6 pm, and by appointment.
Images: Collaborator Megan Moorhouse with Shepherd. Untitled, 2006. Blow-out on handmade paper. 40 x 30 inches.
Support
The Dieu Donné Lab Grant Program is supported in part by by public funds from the National Endowment for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts, and the New York Department of Cultural Affairs; Lily Auchincloss Inc. Foundation, the Edith C. Blum Foundation, Carnegie Corporation of New York, the Robert Sterling Clark Foundation, the Corning Foundation, the Cowles Family Foundation, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Agnes Gund and Daniel Shapiro, Joan K. Davidson (The J.M. Kaplan Fund), Northern Piedmont Community Foundation, the Peter Norton Family Foundation, the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts; and individual donors.
