Throughout her career, New York-based artist Kate Shepherd has explored abstracted spaces in her richly colored works. For this "Artist Talk," Shepherd discusses the evolution of her formal technique, including her signature use of fine lines to delineate space, her focus on paint reflectivity and texture, and her most recent works on paper. She will also discuss how she developed the exhibition "April, May, June, etc., etc., Upended Floor (Mud, Blood)," 2020, at Josh Pazda Hiram Butler Gallery in Houston from afar while living in New York City. Two of her works related to that exhibition are currently on view in "Spatial Awareness: Drawings from the Permanent Collection" at the Menil Drawing Institute.

The "Artist Talk" series is supported by a gift from the Cockrell Family Fund.

About the artist: Kate Shepherd (b. 1961) was born in New York City, where she currently lives and works. Her works are in such collections as Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.; the Menil Collection, Houston; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; and the Morgan Library & Museum, New York. Shepherd has a long-standing commitment to printmaking, and she has made editions with and for Pace Prints, Chinati Foundation, Dieu Donné, Lower East Side Printshop, and Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture.

Visit menil.org/events to learn more about upcoming programs. Public Program of The Menil Collection, Houston, TX. February 17, 2022.

Kate Shepherd is included in "Rhe: everything flows" at Galerie Lelong & Co., New York City from 7 January 2021 – 13 February 2021. 

Kate Shepherd's installation, "April, May, June, etc., etc., Upended Floor (Mud, Blood)" (2020), will be on view at Hiram Butler Gallery beginning May 2020.

Shepherd explains, "Butler and I planned to open a show on May 2. In mid-March, we didn't even have to say it out loud –– health restrictions would make it impossible for me not only to work in my studio but also to travel to Houston. I decided to go ahead anyway and make a wall painting from afar that could be seen from the outer windows –– something kind of beautiful but spooky. It was a perfect challenge because I knew where the viewer would be."

The exhibition "Kate Shepherd: Surveillance" will be on view at Galerie Lelong, New York from 12 March - 18 April 2020.

Galerie Lelong & Co. is pleased to present Surveillance, a solo exhibition of new paintings by New York-based artist Kate Shepherd. Known for her paintings of deeply resonant colors achieved through monochromatic layers of enamel, the presentation will reflect the artist’s progression in her exploration of spatial complexity.

Kate Shepherd is included in the exhibition "Unapologetic: All Women, All Year" at Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art from 15 February 2020 to 31 January 2021. 

"Unapologetic: All Women, All Year" takes an in-depth look at works from SMoCA’s collection, highlighting diverse women artists whose work boldly and unapologetically parses topics such as identity, beauty, violence, and equality. As a result of historically being overlooked within the structure of art history, women constitute an average of less than 15% of the artists in museum collections nationally. For the year, SMoCA presents a selection of women artists from its collection to bring awareness to this lack of inclusion. This exhibition’s title conveys a sense of strength, signaling for systemic change within culture, where individuals of all gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, class, age, and ability see themselves represented within museums.

Kate Shepherd is included in the ongoing exhibition "The Blurred Discreteness of Colors" at Hiram Butler Gallery.

Bill Brady gallery is pleased to present a group exhibition with new works by Kate Shepherd, 22 June - 27 July 2018.  This exhibition explores notions of edge-assignment and subsequent effects on compositional perception. It also investigates the nature of empty, unseen, or unknown space(s). 

Kate Shepherd references remembered spaces through reflection made permanent, or, the illusion of reflection transformed into a marking. In doing so, Shepherd blends the moment of the art-object’s inception and/or creation with ongoing moments of visual consumption. 

Hebel_121 is pleased to present a group exhibition with new works by Kate Shepherd, 9 June - 4 August 2018.

Hiram Butler Gallery is pleased to present a group exhibition with new works by Kate Shepherd, 26 May -28 July 2018.

Jim Hodges and Kate Shepherd are included in On Reflection at UrbanGlass in New York, NY.

Consisting of works that use mirror itself as a material, neon and plexiglas sculpture, and paintings with reflective surfaces, On Reflection brings together works by a range of artists whose work is concerned with reflection in the physical sense, and reflecting the conditions of contemporary experience. As a glass material, the mirror offers a starting point for numerous possibilities as a medium as well as a concept - it can reflect, double, echo, distort. 

Pace Prints is pleased to present a new body of works by Kate Shepherd, featuring monoprints made at the Pace Paper workshop in Brooklyn, New York. The show will highlight unique works on paper from 2011 to the present and will be on view January 20—February 25, 2017 at 521 W. 26th Street. There will be an opening reception Thursday, January 19, 6-8pm.

Kate Shepherd will be included in Pure Pulp: Contemporary Artists Working in Paper at Dieu Donné at The Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton College, 6 February - 10 April  2016.

This exhibition brings together artwork created in the Dieu Donné studio by twenty artists who have participated in the organization’s prestigious residency programs. The artworks range from intimate two-dimensional studies to large sculptural works, all made from a form of paper pulp. The artists have varied practices outside of the residency but are united through their exploration of the possibilities of this versatile medium.

Artists whose work will be included are: Firelei Báez, Ian Cooper, David Kennedy Cutler, E.V. Day, Melvin Edwards, Natalie Frank, Jane Hammond, Jim Hodges, William Kentridge, Jon Kessler, Glenn Ligon, Suzanne McClelland, Arlene Shechet, Kate Shepherd, Molly Smith, Do Ho Suh, Mary Temple, Richard Tuttle, Ursula von Rydingsvard, and B. Wurtz.

Hanes Art Gallery is pleased to present Lineaments, a solo exhibition of new works by Kate Shepherd.

Bartha Contemporary is pleased to announce a series of group exhibitions marking the gallery’s fifteenth anniversary. Entitled “Expanded Field – Four New York Painters” the first exhibition will take place from March 13 to May 2, 2015. Featuring works by gallery artists James Howell, Winston Roeth, Kate Shepherd and Joan Waltemath. This exhibition is takes place in memory of James Howell, who sadly passed away in late 2014.

The perception of vast expands of nature, seemingly never ending horizon lines and a uniquely American understanding of scale continues to inform numerous exhibitions about American Art. Its influence on post war western art in general is well documented.
This exhibition showcases work by four New York painters, James Howell, Winston Roeth, Kate Shepherd and Joan Waltemath that draw on this American tradition. While each explores the perception of space through abstract means, their works take on distinct characteristics.

13 March - 2 May 2015

Kate Shepherd’s Fwd: The Telephone Game will inaugurate Galerie Lelong’s fall season with an exhibition of the artist’s most recent paintings.

12 September - 18 October 2014

Kate Shepherd will be included in Coloring, a group exhibition opeing on 10 January 2014 at the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center.

10 January - 8 March 2014.

Kate Shepherd is included in the group show Learning to See; Joseph Albers and the Interaction of Color at the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art. This installation of selections from SMoCA’s permanent collection celebrates Albers’s legacy and the 50th anniversary of The Interaction of Color. The Albers prints on view are from his 1972 portfolio Formulation: Articulation. They are shown alongside works by other artists who have shared Albers’s fascination with color.

18 May - 22 September 2013

LAND (Los Angeles Nomadic Division) will present Painting in Place, a group exhibition of contemporary painting in the historic Farmers and Merchants Bank in Downtown Los Angeles.

Artists include Rita Ackermann, Kevin Appel, Jennifer Boysen, Sarah Cain, N. Dash, Matias Faldbakken, Kim Fisher, Barnaby Furnas, Alexandra Grant, Matt Greene, Mark Hagen, David Hendren, Julian Hoeber, Rashid Johnson, Jacob Kassay, Olga Koumoundouros, Jim Lee, Nate Lowman, Allison Miller, Sam Moyer, Amanda Ross-Ho, Analia Saban, Kate Shepherd, Gary Simmons, Vincent Szarek, Britton Tolliver, Kon Trubkovich, Monique van Genderen, and Bobbi Woods.
 

401 South Main Street Los Angeles, CA 90013

 22 May - 31 July, 2013.

Kate Shepherd will be included in the group exhibition Edge Order Rupture at Galerie Lelong.

April 4, 2013 – May 4, 2013

Kate Shepherd will be included in a group exhibition at the Lannan Foundation Gallery entitled Transparent. The exhibition will be on view 28 April through 15 July 2012.