Jennifer Shepard

Shepard's work is comprised of intense mark-making coupled with experientially collected photographic imagery. She works in a stream of consciousness fashion, deriving the inspiration for her process from surrealist and spiritualist notions of automatism. She is also heavily influenced by street art and graffiti and sees chance as a large part of her process. She sees the elemental scarification that occurs on a surface in a public space as a roadmap of experience or an archaeological record and seeks to reproduce similarly transformative processes both inside and outside of the studio. Shepard sees her work as journalistic in a sense, revealing unintended narratives unearthed from her subconscious and simultaneously reflecting the energy of the fleeting moment in time that is captured through the physical act of mark-making and allowing the process of making to guide the outcome. She has experimented with randomizing her decision-making process through the use of the I Ching- in experiments similar to those conducted by John Cage in his musical and visual art making.

Shepard is originally from East Texas and currently lives and works in Bushwick, Brooklyn. She completed her MFA at the University of Texas at Tyler 2009. She is c...

MFA University of Texas at Tyler
MS Pratt Institute

Recent exhibitions include "The Bachelorette Party" at Loft 594, "Painting with Pictures" at the Maria Casita Center for Arts and Education in the Bronx, "The 6th Annual Arts in Bushwick Benefit" at Grace Exhibition Space, "Now You See it Now You Don't" at Terrace Gallery and Studios in London, UK, and "Spin? Art" at Loft 594.