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Kate Shepherd: ABC and sometimes Y
Galerie Lelong Exhibitions, 12 December 2024 - 8 February 2025

Kate Shepherd: ABC and sometimes Y

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  • Opening reception: Thursday, December 12, 2024, 6:00pm – 8:00pm Galerie Lelong & Co., New York, is pleased to announce an...
    Light Yellow for Anees, 2024
    Oil and enamel on panel
    52 x 46 in (132.1 x 116.8 cm)
    (GL16642)

    Opening reception: Thursday, December 12, 2024, 6:00pm – 8:00pm

    Galerie Lelong & Co., New York, is pleased to announce an upcoming solo exhibition by Kate Shepherd, entitled ABC and sometimes Y, opening on Thursday, December 12, 2024. On view will be new paintings, sculptures, and watercolors made with Shepherd’s signature use of architectural logic to situate geometric configurations in space. The exhibition presents new forms, colors, and the artist’s largest sculptures to date, demonstrating Shepherd’s ongoing innovation of and expansion upon her decades long practice engaging in abstraction and perspectival space.

    A large-scale, site-specific wall painting commands the main gallery space. In this installation, Shepherd uses various tones of color to generate the illusion of translucent overlapping shapes. The construction implies a three-dimensional perspectival space on a single wall—flat colors layered atop one another create depth where they appear to circle around one another and overlap. The emotional impact of color is most evident in this wall mural, whose monumental, horizontal scale engages with the viewer’s body in both time and space.

  • In a selection of paintings in enamel and oil on aluminum panel, Shepherd paints her constructions—her diagrammatic configurations of linear...
    Homage, lime green, 2024
    Oil and enamel on panel
    52 x 46 in (132.1 x 116.8 cm)
    (GL16652)
     

    In a selection of paintings in enamel and oil on aluminum panel, Shepherd paints her constructions—her diagrammatic configurations of linear forms—in thin lines of black and white painted on smooth, reflective surfaces rendered in a variety of colors ranging from pastel pink to vibrant yellow to black and white. For Shepherd, her choice of colors is dictated by innate emotional reaction to each individual composition, thereby evoking a relationship between color and form. In a selection of works, Shepherd divides the background of the painting between two tones, adding another plane to the pictorial field. The glossy surface of the enamel painting reflects its environs, placing the painting in a perpetual, dynamic conversation with its viewers and surroundings. These paintings present entirely new constructions, hand-rendered on Shepherd’s pictorial planes, that convey varying degrees of stability and tension like sculptures made with translucent planes. Some works see many forms overlap, building a sturdy core, while others see delicately balanced configurations of barely touching shapes. In a series of watercolors on view in the small gallery, monochromatic planar shapes are rendered in contrasting tones to stir a sensation of movement and dynamism. Shepherd’s background in figurative painting is hinted at by way of the attention to naturalistic gravity and credible space. 

    Throughout the gallery, a selection of large-scale painted plywood sculptures prompts a dialogue with the paintings on view. The sculptures mirror the lexicon Shepherd develops throughout the painted works, revealing the logic behind the line work. The concept for these sculptures stems from experimentation on a smaller scale eight years prior, beginning with forms that emerged as byproducts of works on paper. Composed in plywood to allow them to maintain the thin profile that characterizes Shepherd’s constructions, these works recontextualize the artist’s signature forms in three dimensions.   

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  • Works
    • Kate Shepherd, Light Yellows, Triangles, 2024
      Kate Shepherd, Light Yellows, Triangles, 2024
    • Kate Shepherd, Homage, lime green, 2024
      Kate Shepherd, Homage, lime green, 2024
    • Kate Shepherd, Bonfire, Kiss, 2024
      Kate Shepherd, Bonfire, Kiss, 2024
    • Kate Shepherd, Party Over, Red, 2024
      Kate Shepherd, Party Over, Red, 2024
    • Kate Shepherd, Deepest blue, Precarious, 2024
      Kate Shepherd, Deepest blue, Precarious, 2024
    • Kate Shepherd, Pinwheel Mask, blackish and whitish, 2024
      Kate Shepherd, Pinwheel Mask, blackish and whitish, 2024
    • Kate Shepherd, Light Yellow for Anees, 2024
      Kate Shepherd, Light Yellow for Anees, 2024
    • Kate Shepherd, Table Sculpture, two blues, 2024
      Kate Shepherd, Table Sculpture, two blues, 2024
    • Kate Shepherd, Blue Paperclip with Tail, 2024
      Kate Shepherd, Blue Paperclip with Tail, 2024
    • Kate Shepherd, Ever, 2024
      Kate Shepherd, Ever, 2024
    • Kate Shepherd, Three Walls #37, 2022
      Kate Shepherd, Three Walls #37, 2022
    • Kate Shepherd, Leaning Triangles, Blues #06, 2024
      Kate Shepherd, Leaning Triangles, Blues #06, 2024
    • Kate Shepherd, Overlapping Pink Planes Stacked #07, 2024
      Kate Shepherd, Overlapping Pink Planes Stacked #07, 2024
    • Kate Shepherd, Violet, Three Overlapping Walls #80, 2023
      Kate Shepherd, Violet, Three Overlapping Walls #80, 2023
    • Kate Shepherd, Blue Tent #02, 2024
      Kate Shepherd, Blue Tent #02, 2024
    • Kate Shepherd, Red Falling Doors #03, 2024
      Kate Shepherd, Red Falling Doors #03, 2024
    • Kate Shepherd, Overlapping Black Planes Stacked #81, 2023
      Kate Shepherd, Overlapping Black Planes Stacked #81, 2023
    • Kate Shepherd, Orange Chamber #05, 2024
      Kate Shepherd, Orange Chamber #05, 2024
    • Kate Shepherd, Green Pinwheel #04, 2024
      Kate Shepherd, Green Pinwheel #04, 2024
    • Kate Shepherd, Folding Wall, No Division, Violet #70, 2022
      Kate Shepherd, Folding Wall, No Division, Violet #70, 2022
    • Kate Shepherd, May I Bring a Friend, 2024
      Kate Shepherd, May I Bring a Friend, 2024
    • Kate Shepherd, Tender, 2024
      Kate Shepherd, Tender, 2024
    • Kate Shepherd, Numero Uno, 2024
      Kate Shepherd, Numero Uno, 2024
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