Kate Shepherd
Kate Shepherd Something About Shapes installation view
Kate Shepherd
Blue, Leaning Planks, #61, 2022
Watercolor on Arches paper
Framed Dimensions:
18 7/8 x 15 1/8 x 1 1/2 inches
47.9 x 38.4 x 3.8 cm
$ 6,500
Kate Shepherd
Brown, Open Door with Plane, #65, 2022
Watercolor on Arches paper
Framed Dimensions:
18 7/8 x 15 1/8 x 1 1/2 inches
47.9 x 38.4 x 3.8 cm
$ 6,500
Kate Shepherd
Orange, Folding Wall, #78, 2023
Watercolor on Arches paper
Framed Dimensions:
18 7/8 x 15 1/8 x 1 1/2 inches
47.9 x 38.4 x 3.8 cm
$ 6,500
Kate Shepherd
Grey, Standing Box, #33, 2022
Watercolor on Arches paper
Framed Dimensions:
18 7/8 x 15 1/8 x 1 1/2 inches
47.9 x 38.4 x 3.8 cm
$ 6,500
Kate Shepherd
Wall painting 5, straw yellow planes folding back, 2023
Latex on wall, custom colors
Dimensions variable
Approximately 84 x 42 inches
Price upon request
Kate Shepherd
Dark Green, Overlapping Walls, #60, 2022
Watercolor on Arches paper
Framed Dimensions:
18 7/8 x 15 1/8 x 1 1/2 inches
47.9 x 38.4 x 3.8 cm
$ 6,500
Kate Shepherd
Violet, Three Overlapping Walls #53, 2022
Watercolor on Arches paper
Framed Dimensions:
18 7/8 x 15 1/8 x 1 1/2 inches
47.9 x 38.4 x 3.8 cm
$ 6,500
Kate Shepherd
Turquoise, Leaning Planks, #59, 2022
Watercolor on Arches paper
Framed Dimensions:
18 7/8 x 15 1/8 x 1 1/2 inches
47.9 x 38.4 x 3.8 cm
$ 6,500
Kate Shepherd
Red, Open Dutch Door, #10, 2021
Watercolor on Arches paper
Framed Dimensions:
18 7/8 x 15 1/8 x 1 1/2 inches
47.9 x 38.4 x 3.8 cm
$ 6,500
Kate Shepherd
Wall painting 7, leaning planks, blue and green, 2023
Latex on wall, custom colors
Dimensions variable
Approximately 84 x 42 inches
Price upon request
Kate Shepherd
Black, Nested Planes, #39, 2022
Watercolor on Arches paper
Framed Dimensions:
18 7/8 x 15 1/8 x 1 1/2 inches
47.9 x 38.4 x 3.8 cm
$ 6,500
Kate Shepherd
Greens, Three Planes, #75, 2022
Watercolor on Arches paper
Framed Dimensions:
18 7/8 x 15 1/8 x 1 1/2 inches
47.9 x 38.4 x 3.8 cm
$ 6,500
Kate Shepherd
Claret, Stacked Planes, #50, 2022
Watercolor on Arches paper
Framed Dimensions:
18 7/8 x 15 1/8 x 1 1/2 inches
47.9 x 38.4 x 3.8 cm
$ 6,500
Kate Shepherd
Orange, Steps, #45, 2022
Signed and dated lower right
Watercolor on Arches paper
Framed Dimensions:
18 7/8 x 15 1/8 x 1 1/2 inches
47.9 x 38.4 x 3.8 cm
$ 6,500
Kate Shepherd
Yellow, Folding Walls, #72, 2022
Watercolor on Arches paper
Framed Dimensions:
18 7/8 x 15 1/8 x 1 1/2 inches
47.9 x 38.4 x 3.8 cm
$ 6,500
Kate Shepherd
Wall painting 3, violet, separated parts, 2023
Latex on wall, custom colors
Dimensions variable
Approximately 84 x 42 inches
Price upon request
Kate Shepherd
Black, Open Folded Wall, #43, 2022
Watercolor on Arches paper
Framed Dimensions:
18 7/8 x 15 1/8 x 1 1/2 inches
47.9 x 38.4 x 3.8 cm
$ 6,500
Kate Shepherd
Black, Folded Planes, #40, 2022
Watercolor on Arches paper
Framed Dimensions:
18 7/8 x 15 1/8 x 1 1/2 inches
47.9 x 38.4 x 3.8 cm
$ 6,500
Kate Shepherd
Black, Nested Planes, #42, 2022
Watercolor on Arches paper
Framed Dimensions:
18 7/8 x 15 1/8 x 1 1/2 inches
47.9 x 38.4 x 3.8 cm
$ 6,500
Kate Shepherd
Yellow, Floating Planes, #51, 2022
Watercolor on Arches paper
Framed Dimensions:
18 7/8 x 15 1/8 x 1 1/2 inches
47.9 x 38.4 x 3.8 cm
$ 6,500
Kate Shepherd
Sap Green, Folding Walls, #49, 2022
Watercolor on Arches paper
Framed Dimensions:
18 7/8 x 15 1/8 x 1 1/2 inches
47.9 x 38.4 x 3.8 cm
$ 6,500
Kate Shepherd
Wall painting 6, overlapping greys, sheer middle, 2023
Latex on wall, custom colors
Dimensions variable
Approximately 84 x 42 inches
Price upon request
Kate Shepherd
Brown, Open Door with Plane, #62, 2022
Watercolor on Arches paper
Framed Dimensions:
18 7/8 x 15 1/8 x 1 1/2 inches
47.9 x 38.4 x 3.8 cm
$ 6,500
Kate Shepherd
Red, Open Dutch Door, Notched, #09, 2021
Watercolor on Arches paper
Framed Dimensions:
18 7/8 x 15 1/8 x 1 1/2 inches
47.9 x 38.4 x 3.8 cm
$ 6,500
Kate Shepherd
Yellow, Folding Walls, #72, 2022
Watercolor on Arches paper
Framed Dimensions:
18 7/8 x 15 1/8 x 1 1/2 inches
47.9 x 38.4 x 3.8 cm
PRESS RELEASE
Anthony Meier is pleased to present Something About Shapes, Kate Shepherd’s sixth solo exhibition at the gallery which will feature never-before-seen watercolors and large-scale wall paintings, all of which have been created in dialogue with their environment. On view from 7 April - 19 May 2023, this is the gallery’s second exhibition at its new flagship location in Mill Valley, California.
As the first exhibition dedicated to Shepherd’s ongoing series of watercolors, Something About Shapes reflects the artist’s time-honored practice of geometrical abstraction that teases out subtle relationships between form and space which might otherwise remain overlooked. Her distinct visual lexicon, generated by superimposing a delicate matrix of chromatic fields to evoke the illusion of three-dimensionality, characterizes both bodies of work, the watercolors and wall drawings alike.
Taking as their inspiration the trap doors found along city sidewalks and folding walls, the series of watercolors on view all reflect a certain architectural quality in their arrangement of overlapping and intersecting planes—alluding to stagnated movement and different points of view, exemplified by Violet, Three Overlapping Planes #77 (2022), a door standing ajar, as in Brown, Open Door with Plane, #65, (2022), or a wall partition bisecting an otherwise undelineated space, such as in Black, Open Folded Wall, #43 (2022).
The play of light and shadow that results from Shepherd’s delicate manipulation of color in these intimately-scaled monochromatic works share a certain kinship with the literal play of light and shadow that she engages in her large-scale wall paintings. Though similarly drawing upon the planar relationship as a sort of formal conceit, the wall paintings establish a far more direct spatial discourse, compelling a consideration of the viewer’s phenomenological relationship both inside and outside of the work. The viewer is engaged with a larger-than-life figural and gestural reference, suggesting both gravity and motion.
Something About Shapes will be accompanied by a digital catalog, published on the occasion of the exhibition.
KATE SHEPHERD Something About Shapes