Virtual Visiting Artist, Sheila Pepe will give a virtual artist talk on Friday, June 9, at 7:30 pm ET. This event is free and open to the public. To attend, please register to receive a private Zoom link.
https://vermontstudiocenter.org/calendar/2023/6/9/virtual-visiting-artist-sheila-pepe
For more than 30 years Sheila Pepe has accumulated a family resemblance* of works in sculpture—installation—drawing and other singular and hybrid forms. Some are drawings that are sculpture—or sculpture that is furniture, fiber works that appear as paintings, and tabletop objects that look like models for monuments, and stand as votives for a secular religion. The constant conceptual pursuit of Pepe's research, making, teaching and writing has been to contest received knowledge, opinions and taste.
I make simultaneous bodies of work. Each one starts as one breaks off from another, or conjoin where bodies meet. I work 'round the studio—as in a kitchen—tending each pot, cutting board and dish. All bodies of work remain open until the end of me. - S.P.
* 'Family Resemblance' refers to Whittgenstein's investigations of over-lapping systems of objects and language in the world.
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