RUDY SHEPHERD
ABOUT | WORKS | EXHIBITIONS
ABOUT
Rudy Shepherd’s work explores the nature of evil through the mediums of painting, drawing and sculpture. this exploration involves investigations into the lives of criminals and victims of crime. he explores the complexity of these stories and the grey areas between innocence and guilt in a series of paintings and drawings of both the criminals and the victims, making no visual distinctions between the two. going along with these portraits is a series of sculptures called the black rock negative energy absorbers. they are a group of sculptures meant to remove negative energy from people allowing them to respond to life with the more positive aspects of their personality.
Rudy Shepherd received a BS in biology and studio art from wake forest university and an MFA in sculpture from the school of art institute of Chicago. He has been in group exhibitions at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, NY, The Studio Museum of Harlem, NY, Bronx Museum of Art, NY, Art in General, NY, Triple Candie, NY, Socrates Sculpture Park, NY, Cheekwood Museum of Art, TN, Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, MD, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, CT, Southeastern Center of Contemporary Art, NC, Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago, IL, Tart Gallery, San Francisco, CA, Analix Forever Gallery, Geneva, Awitzerland and solo exhibitions at Mixed Greens Gallery, NY, Regina Miller Gallery, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA. he has been awarded Artist in Residence at PS1 National/International Studio Program, PS1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY, Artist in Residence Visual + Harlem, Jacob Lawrence Institute for the Visual Arts, New York, NY and Emerging Artist Fellowship, Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, NY, Artist in Residence, Location One, NY, Process Space Artist in Residence Program Governors Island, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, New York, NY. he has done public art projects on the campus of Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, at Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, NY, First Street Green Art Park, New York, NY, and The Three Rivers rts festival, pittsburgh, PA in 2015 and most recently in Harlem in collaboration with the Studio Museum in Harlem.
WORKS
Devil's Tower, Holy Mountain Series
Acrylic on canvas
75 x 54 in
George Floyd, 46 year old man who died after being handcuffed and pinned to the ground for 7 minutes by a police officer’s knee on his neck.
Watercolor
12 x 9 in
Black Rock Negative Energy Absorber 3
Foam, hydrostone, acrylic paint
26 x 10 x 10 in
Healing Device, Mask
Glazed ceramic
6 x 6.5 x 6 in
EXHIBITIONS
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