User:Edegarces/Sheila Pepe

Sheila Pepe (born, 1959) is an American artist and educator born in Morristown, NJ, and is best know for her large scale crocheted installations, many of which accompanied by wall drawings inspired by shadows cast by the installation. She has been a prominent figure as a lesbian, cross-disciplinary artist, whose work employs conceptualism, craft, and site-specificity to address formal, feminist, and class issues.

She received her MFA from the Museum of Fine Art, Boston in 1994, where her highly feminist practice comprised of video, performance, and sculpture.

First solo show at 88 Room, Allston Mall (link). Site specific Work from Doppelganger series, which comprised of constructions or assemblages whose cast shadows serve [inspiration (or guidance)] as free association prompts for wall drawings, indicating memory and internal psychology.[cite pg.1] This process draws from the Surrealist automatic drawing exercise, exquisite corpse (link). Projection of shadow, as a theme, is also found in her contemporaneous photogram projects, which are. ..

Since, she has had solo shows and been awarded thus and such

Her more recent work utilizes domestic and industrial materials [cite mind the gap, forward](including, but not limited to, yarn, shoe laces, rubber-bands, and nautical tow line).