Lannan Foundation

Kate Shepherd, Artist - Santa Fe, Winter 1999

Kate Shepherd works in a range of disciplines including drawing, painting, sculpture, and printmaking. In her work, Ms. Shepherd explores the elegance of form in common, everyday structures such as cartons, tents, windows and trays reduced to their most elementary outlines. Minimal in her approach, her work articulates relationships that create tension between figure and ground, line and color.

Ms. Shepherd participated in a long residency in Santa Fe. During her seven-week tenure, she completed a series of drawings and paintings which were installed in the foundation’s gallery and presented to the public. Ms. Shepherd also gave a lecture on the development of her work at SITE Santa Fe. The exhibition was also presented in Los Angeles, at Otis Gallery, Otis College of Art and Design, in Winter 2000.