Event Info
TEXTURA: a solo exhibition of appliqués by Shawn Shepherd:
The introduction of recycled felt pennant appliqué work to my oeuvre began in 2...
Wednesday - Saturday 10-5PM and Sundays 12-5PM
Event Description
The introduction of recycled felt pennant appliqué work to my oeuvre began in 2006 when I was ridding my life of numerous small collections. Since the first four works I hand stitched together that year, the appliqués have slowly evolved into a collection which is varied in size, appearance, and shape. Working with secondhand materials which need to be first collected lacks the immediacy of painting but sewing by hand is a quiet, clean and cozy thing to do in the wintertime.
Much of the work I have produced over the last decade is based on a culmination of ideas which explore type-written information, and/or recycling, and the effects of post imaging. My process often utilizes the dissection & compaction of printed text and the displacement, rearrangement, simplification and proportional shifts of the familiar. Consumer culture discards are converted into visual poetry.
See Exhibit-V's interview with Shawn here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwcfyTX0xVQ&list=UUV4eaoyvilFQdKShsSYMsdg&index=1&feature=plcp
Times Colonist Article:
Artist Takes Ideas to the Limit:
http://www.timescolonist.com/entertainment/Artist+takes+ideas+limit/6686454/story.html
Venue
Victoria BC
Open / Operational
In-Person Event
Sun. May 27th 2012 - Thu. June 21st 2012 + Add to Calendar
Shawn Shepherd
