Sheila Pepe

Sheila Pepe lives and works in Brooklyn. Carrie Moyer and Sheila Pepe: Tabernacles for Trying Times is on view through February 6th, 2022 at the Museum of Art & Design, New York. Please log on for catalogue and programming. Pepe represents herself at sheilapepe.com.

So, Rina, we share many differences—like religion—between us that draw us both to seeing the Mediterranean Sea as a whole, skirted by three rich, culture-bearing continents. So, I am thinking … As an artist and citizen, what three social/cultural histories make most of the foundation of your actions and the objects/outcomes of your “doing”?
Sheila Pepe, American Bardo 2.0, 2021. Courtesy the artist.
Twenty Things About Art Education—One for Each Year That I’ve Taught
Identify the act of making as a form of visual, tactile, and spatial speech. Art is made when the maker is willing to take a position in a dialogue larger than her own conscious ruminations.
"Photograph (with light leak) of pages 14 & 15, Sheila Pepe: Josephine, Thread Waxing Space; essay by Lia Gangitano, 2000. (page caption: this page: from Schad, 1999, ink and graphite on paper; photo: L. Deschenes / opposite page: Josephine (detail), 2000, crocheted yarn, lights, shadow and wall drawing, installed at Thread Waxing Space; photo: John Berens)," 2014. Courtesy the artist.

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