Lilah Shepherd
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Artist Bio
Lilah Shepherd lives to create every day, support and encourage fellow artists in their creative endeavors. She makes art that investigates individuality, relationships and community in the human experience and explores rest, repetition and visual symmetry, self-discovery, play and nonverbal communication. 33, she lives in Tyler, TX and attends University of Texas at Tyler with her Husband Jamin C. Shepherd who is also an artist. She has had a nomadic life, having lived throughout Texas and the south of France. She enjoys being outside with her plants or working with clay in the studio. Artist Statement où je vivais là-bas, slow life, desert, disease, nature, rest Symmetry, contained space, repetition, multiples, pivoting Resting on rocky terrain, whole resting on broken color combinations, early 1990’s Japanese animation films Formal elements and ideas are before and also present in creating, conscious, first, intentional Thoughts and revelations come after creating, discovered, self-discovery Played with in composition, intuition, but exist alone Artifacts, documentation, nonverbal communication, form If I could do anything with my work I would hike into the desert and leave my piece there. Alone in the light and beauty, surrounded by the dust and earth and plants. I would collect samples of the plants I came into contact with. I would carry my piece with me into the desert, I would know where it needed to be placed when I arrived there, I would place it carefully on the ground. The piece would be remembered by me only. Never seen by others it would rest, still. The piece would exist separate from any society or civilization that exists somewhere else, separate. It would exist apart from the normal art object life in a gallery, home or museum. It would never know that life. It would never know the normal course of events. It would exist apart. It would take in the heat of the sun and the cool of the shade and night. It would exist under the illumination of the moon and stars and know well the rustling of desert brush and the buzzing of insects. It would be related to this environment being made from clay but unlike anything around it because it was formed, altered. Placed carefully, respectfully and left. My pieces each individually reflect me, existing, separate, behind, apart, alone, and longing to be outside. CV Education 2016 -present BFA candidate at University of Texas at Tyler 2015-2016 Kilgore College, Kilgore, Texas 2006-2007 St. Philips College, San Antonio, Texas 2006-2007 Collin College, Plano, Texas 2005 GED San Antonio, Texas 2002 Lycée Georges Duby, Aix-en-Provence, France Group Exhibitions 2018 April - May, Confluence, Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, TX 2018 April - August, UT Tyler Juried Student Exhibition (Juror Sherry Owens), UT Tyler, TX 2018 March, 26th Annual NCECA Cup Exhibition and Sale as part of Crosscurrents: Clay and Culture, NCECA's 53rd annual conference, Pittsburgh, PA 2018 January, The Contemporary Print 2018, PrintAustin, Flatbed Press, O2 Gallery, Austin, TX 2017 November, See & Hear: New Music Inspired by Visual Art, UT Tyler, TX 2017 September, Fall Selected Works: Current UT Tyler Studio Art Exhibition, UT Tyler, TX 2017 August - September, CAMEO Emerging Artist, San Jacinto College, Houston, TX 2017 July, UT Tyler Land Art Works, Faulkner Park, Tyler, TX 2017 May, Selected Ceramic Student Works, UT Tyler, TX 2017 April - August, UT Tyler Juried Student Exhibition (Juror Barbara Frey), UT Tyler, TX 2017 Spring Selected Works: Current UT Tyler Studio Art Exhibition, UT Tyler, TX 2016 November, Documented Connections with Jessica Sanders and Jerid Watson at UT Tyler, TX 2016 Spring Student Exhibition, Kilgore College, Kilgore, TX 2016 SXSW, Uncle Billy’s, Austin, TX 2016 HEY LADY Art Show, Ghost Gallery, Seattle, WA 2016 February, Art Symposium, UT Tyler, TX 2016 January – April, Tic Tail, 90 Orchard Street, New York, NY 10002s 2008 Spring, Jupiter House, Denton, TX 2007 Fall, Student Art Exhibition, St. Philips College, San Antonio, TX 2006 Spring, Student Art Exhibition, St. Philips College, San Antonio, TX 2006 Fall, Student Art Exhibition, Collin College, Plano, TX Awards + Honors 2018 Christopher Lyon Memorial Scholarship, East Texas Communities Foundation 2018 Art Excellence Scholarship, East Texas Communities Foundation 2018 Summer I UT Tyler Presidents honor roll 2018 Spring UT Tyler Presidents honor roll 2017 Fall UT Tyler Presidents honor roll 2017 Best in Show, UT Tyler Juried Student Exhibition (Juror Barbara Frey), UT Tyler, TX 2017 UT Tyler Will McDonald Memorial Scholarship 2017 UT Tyler Jack & Dorothy Fay White Scholarship 2017 UT Tyler Friends of the Arts Scholarship 2017 UT Tyler Watson W. and Emma Wise Endowed Scholarship 2017 UT Tyler Harry Loyd & Jean Wilkinson Academic Endowed Scholarship in Fine Arts 2017 UT Tyler BFA program acceptance 2016 UT Tyler Presidents honor roll 2016 UT Tyler Presidential Scholarship Academic Service Assistant to the Art and Art History Department UT Tyler January 2017- present Assistant to Visiting Artist Barbara Frey UT Tyler April 2017 Gallery Assistant “32nd International Annual Exhibition” UT Tyler January 2017 Publications “Inside the Artist’s Studio: On View this Summer Texas Contemporary Artists on View in East Texas” EGuide Magazine by Derrick White, June 2018 “Musing with Ceramicist Lilah Shepherd” Issue #02 Selvia Beat by Magdalena Antuña, FW 2016 “Lilah Shepherd, Queen of Chill(ums)” High Holidaze Oct 4, 2016 Thecreatorsproject.vice.com This Weed Boutique Offers a Head Shop Alternative - Eva Recinos April 20, 2016 Titten zine, Lilah Shepherd 2016 Planters, Boobs and a Lava Lamp zine, Lilah Shepherd 2016 Faces Zine, Lilah Shepherd 2016 Dang Dens album art, 2016 HEY LADY Issue 3: Candy Darling zine, Regina Shilling 2016 Sweet Hearts Zine, Lilah Shepherd 2016 Hey Lady issue 5: Sister Rosetta Tharpe zine, Regina Shilling Thekindland.com The Essential Stoner Witch Wish list - Crissy Van Meter April 12, 2016 analogartistdigitalworld.com, The Sketchbook Project Mobile Library - Thomas Thorspecken July 4, 2013 Autostraddle.com holiday gift guide 2015 super cute stuff made by female indie artists- Raquel December 1, 2015 The Sketchbook Project Vol. IV Create & Capture 2013 Teaching Ceramics class with kindergarten – 1st grade April, 2017 at Promise Academy, Tyler, TX Ceramics demonstration “High School day” fall 2016 at UT Tyler, Tyler, TX Ceramic Pipe Workshop with Lilah Shepherd, November 19, 2016 at Sister Coffee, Austin, TX Marbled Ceramic Jewelry Making with Lilah Shepherd, October 23, 2016 Hotel San José, Austin, TX Urban Outfitters DIY: Ceramics with Lilah Shepherd June 18, 2016 at Space 24 Twenty, Austin, TX Urban Outfitters DIY: Ceramics with Lilah Shepherd March 26, 2016 at Space 24 Twenty, Austin, TX Events 2018 Studio Art & Art History Association Fine Art Sale, UT Tyler, TX 2017 Studio Art & Art History Association Fine Art Sale, UT Tyler, TX 2017 Art Walk Longview, Silver Grizzly Espresso, Longview, TX 2017 Summer Pop Up (curated by Jacqueline Davis), Quirk Gallery, Richmond, VA 2016 Feliz, 913 Collective, Austin, TX 2016 Craft(her), Boss Babes, Austin, TX 2016 SXSW Pop Up, Catchtilly, Austin, TX 2016 Urban Outfitters Yard Sale, Space24Twenty, Austin, TX 2015 Winter Pop Up, Catchtilly, Austin, TX Corporate Representation Urban Outfitters Space 24 Twenty, 2420 Guadalupe St, Austin, TX 78705 Mass Gallery, 507 Calles Street, Suite 108, Austin, TX 78702 Friends and Neighbors, 2614 E. Cesar Chavez, Austin, TX 78702 Ten Over Six, 1511 Commerce St. Dallas, TX 75201 Ten Over Six, 8425 Melrose Ave. Los Angeles, CA 90069 Catchtilly, 1200 E. 11th Street #104, Austin, TX, 78702 Individual Medley, 3176 Glendale Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90039 The Mall, 916 Springdale Rd, Austin, TX 78702 Rosewood Clothing Co., 16 West Broad St, Richmond, VA 23220 Merge Tofino, 305-B Campbell St, PBOX 371, Tofino, BC V0R2Z0, Canada |
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