"Lace Meander"
12"W x 28H" image size
(piece will be framed)
Cut muslin, gesso and graphite.
Study for a larger piece

Piper Shepard Biography
Piper Shepard was born in Willimantic Connecticut in 1962. She received her BFA in Crafts from Philadelphia College of Art in 1985 and her MFA in Fiber from Cranbrook Academy of Art in 1988. Since 1989, she has developed a career as an educator in Fiber while maintaining her studio practice. She has taught at North Carolina State University, School of Design, Kansas City Art Institute, and has been teaching in the Fiber Department at MICA since 1994.

Selected exhibitions include Abington Art Center, PA, University of Wisconsin, Madison, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, The Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, the Museum of Art and Design, Helsinski, Finland, Helen Drutt Gallery, Philadelphia, the Textile Art Centre, Chicago, IL, The Baltimore Museum of Art, MD, the John Michael Kohler Art Center, Sheboygen, WI, the Museum of Arts and Design, NYC.

With a background in textiles, Piper's current studio practice involves textile pattern design with both historical and contemporary references. She creates works that engage cloths interaction with architecture. Her process involves cutting cloth by hand to create large-scale textiles that reside in site-specific environments. The patterns she composes include traditional and contemporary sensibilities. Her large-scale works are patterned screens or scrims that allow light and shadow to transform space. The piece in this auction is a study for a larger work called Lace Meander.