Steve Shepard
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Since 1985, Shepard has concentrated on the use of Prismacolor pencils, ink and graphite on watercolored paper to create stylized, narrative images drawn from his fascination with birds and fish, foliage and water. Born in Port Arthur, Texas, in 1955, Steve Shepard has spent most of his life on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, a place his family has been associated with since 1810. He began beachcombing, fishing, shrimping, sailing,rowing and operating a small motorboat when he was eight. Growing up surrounded by woods with few nearby families, Shepard learned to love the natural world and to see the coast undeveloped even as developers moved into take advantage of government shipyard spending schemes to crowd his county with job-seekers. The current gambling casino frenzy has created another wave of woods and water wrecking which only fuels the imaginary environmental healing envisioned in Steve's artwork. Shepard earned a B.F.A. from the University of South Alabama and attended the Santa Fe Workshops of Contemporary Art in 1976. He has had one-person and group exhibitions in university and commercial galleries across the nation, and his work appears in many private and a few public collections. “I am essentially a water-and-nature-oriented person,” Steve says. “I can enjoy the urban life for short periods, but I feel most at home on the water, surrounded by woods.” SELECTED GRANTS AND AWARDS 1997-98 Mississippi Arts Commission Grant 1997 W.T. Neal Residency Grant, Blountstown, FL 1996-97 NEA/Southern Arts Federation Visual Arts Fellowship 1998 Best of Show, Pleasure Island, AL Best of Show, Fairhope, AL Third Place, Cherry Creek Arts Festival, Denver Best of 2-D, Memphis Arts Festival 1997 Best of Show, Pleasure Island, AL Best of Show, Fairhope, AL Best of Show, Roanoke, VA Third Place, St. Louis Art Fair Award of Distinction, Pensacola 1996 Best of Show, Artsquest, Seaside, FL Best of Show, Baton Rouge, LA Award of Distinction, Dunedin, FL President's Award, Magic City, Birmingham 1995 Merit Award, Gasparilla Festival, Tampa 1994 Merit Award, Gasparilla Festival, Tampa Best of Show, Bluff Park, Birmingham Best of Show, Augusta, GA City of Birmingham Award, Magic City, Birmingham SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS 1992 Lakeland College, Sheboygan, WI 1991 University of Colorado, Boulder 1990 Truman State University, Kirksville, MO University of Alabama, Huntsville SE Massachusetts University, N. Dartmouth 1987 Illinois Wesleyan Univ. Bloomington Mia Gallery, Seattle Leslie Muth Gallery, Houston 1986 Janet Fleisher Gallery, Philadelphia Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 1999 Mississippi Museum of Art "Invitational" 1998 University of West Florida "...Steve Shepard and Walter I. Anderson" 1997 Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem "1996 SAF/NEA Winners" 1996 Mobile Museum of Art "Southeastern Juried Exhibition" 1995 Mobile Museum and Huntsville Museum "Alabama Impact..." 1991 Museum of the Society of (Book) Illustrators, New York Quinlan Art Center, Gainesville, "Juried Works on Paper" Pennsylvania School of Art and Design, Lancaster Artlink, Fort Wayne, IN Delaware Center for Contemporary Art, Wilmington 1990 International Monetary Fund Gallery, Washington, "Nine MS Artists" Gasperi Gallery, New Orleans 1988 University of North Carolina, Greensboro 1708 East Main Gallery, Richmond, VA Race Street Gallery, Grand Rapids, MI Lauren Rogers Museum, Laurel, MS Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem "Contemporary Drawing" 1987 Chicago Public Library "Urgent Messages" Janet Fleisher Gallery, Philadelphia Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi Crescent Gallery, Dallas 1986 Cavin-Morris Gallery, New York		Gautier, MS Home: 228-872-0508 Work: Fax: Email: shepart@datasync.com Web:
WORK
TRIPTYCH: "God Made the Saltwater Bayou Whole and Perfect..." left panel, "Elvis..." 72"x23" 1997
TRIPTYCH: "God Made the Saltwater Bayou Whole and Perfect..." middle panel, "Saltwater Bayou..." 72"x46" 1997
TRIPTYCH: "God Made the Saltwater Bayou Whole and Perfect..." right panel, "Abe Lincoln..." 72"x23" 1997
DIPTYCH: "Wilderness or Die" left panel 72"x48" 1999

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