Editions Fawbush is pleased to announce the publication of Sunday, 1968, a series of sculptural monotypes by Kate Shepherd. Here, the artist continues to explore her relationship between painted sculpture and sculptural painting. Using her preferred materials of wood and enamel paint, Shepherd playfully levitates these objects into the air, giving the viewer the opportunity to experience her choices of color and surface in a circular manner. Each unique mobile shares commonalities with its siblings. All are made from coat hanger wire, enamel paint, wooden balls and sometimes walnuts, in colors that are particular favorites of the artist. Given these elements, which ground the series in the language of editioned work, Shepherd explores what interests her about the challenges of 'sculpture in the round', and the tradition of mobiles in particular. Its title, like the one of her last Fawbush edition -We Were The New Americans- is also conjured from the artist's childhood memories. As is 2008, 1968 was a politically charged election year and it was during that time that Sunday was the designated day she saw her father. The reference to a particular year and an amorphic day of the week parallels the composite qualities of these mobiles.

Shepherd has had solo exhibitions at the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, Portland, OR; Otis College of Art & Design, Los Angeles, CA; the Lannan Foundation, Santa Fe, NM; and the Chinati Foundation, Marfa, TX, among many gallery exhibitions. Group exhibitions have included the International Print Center, NY; Orthodoxes - Hétérodoxes: Choisir sa Ligne, Hotel de Sponeck, L'Allan, Scene Nationale de Montbéliard, Montbéliard, France; Concurrent exhibition at Maison des Arts et des Loisirs, Sochaux, France; Espacio Interior [Inner Space], Sala Alcala 31 de la Comunidad de Madrid, Spain; Twice Drawn, Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Saratoga Springs, NY; Minimalist Art Now, Elvehjem Museum, Madison, WI; InVisible Silence, David Winton Bell Gallery, List Art Center, Brown University, Providence, RI; Beginning Here: 101 Ways, Visual Arts Gallery, School of Visual Arts, NY; Clarity of Vision: Minimalist Prints and Drawings, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI; New Jersey Center for Visual Arts, Summit, NJ; Work: Shaker Design and Recent Art, Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY; Videos by Artists Who Don't Make Videos, Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh, Scotland; Trace, Bard Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY; Animal Tales: Contemporary Bestiary, Whitney Museum of American Art, NY; and Imaginary Beings, Exit Art, NY, among many others. She is represented in the collections of the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, France; Detroit Institute of the Arts, Detroit, MI; Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN; the Lannan Foundation, Santa Fe, NM; LIST Visual Arts Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; the New York Public Library, NY and the Progressive Corporation, NY. Kate Shepherd is represented in New York by Galerie LeLong.

Other artworks by Kate Shepherd

We Were the New Americans, 2007

Protest Poster, 2008

Cockeyed-Optimist, 2008

Rondeau, 2006