Liz Shepherd
Artist Statement
The work reflects memories of traumatic events and experiences. There are references to disturbances that are personal, public and historical. The series was built on witnessing the trauma that accompanies hurricanes and the sight of people falling from the World Trade Center. Piles of chairs not only stand in for human bodies but also represent the detritus of human lives that have been scattered in a terrifying and sudden cataclysmic event. While natural disaster was one motivation, debris also call to mind lives that have been disrupted by events as large as war or as intimate as the upheaval that accompanies displacement or illness.
Biography
Liz Shepherd received her MFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. She divides her time between making sculpture and printmaking. Her work is in the permanent collection of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts as well as other public and private collections. Liz is the proprietor of the Shepherd Print Studio at 524 Harrison Avenue, Boston and President of the Boston Printmakers.
Artist’s Website
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