About Julia Shepley
Julia Shepley's ever evolving iconography of marks and layered surfaces serves to visually translate her experience of light, shadow, and sound as they move through space, and is layered by time and memory. She works on sculpture, drawings, photography, and prints, simultaneously pulling the drawings into three dimensions and creating a graphic image with her wall sculpture and photography. She layers and combines materials, methods and imagery to create the illusion of movement and reassembly. Recent work includes a series of archival pigment photographic prints created with her shadow box sculptures. In her enigmatic photographic images, forms appear to be traveling through - and suspended in - pools of atmospheric illumination and vibrant color.
Shepley works in series of related works which can be shown in group installations, in pairs or individually. Shepley is represented by the Boston Sculptors Gallery, is a member of the Boston Printmakers, and The Textile Study Group in NYC, and is represented in museum and library collections in the Boston area. She works out of her studio in the Brickbottom Artists Building in Somerville. Shepley studied at Hampshire College and Boston University and grew up in Boston, Marshfield, MA and Sierra Leone, West Africa.
She has exhibited nationally and internationally including MEWO Kunsthalle, Memmingen, Germany (Ovid's Girls); The Sculpture Center, Cleveland, Ohio; the Decordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln MA (The Sculptor's Eye, Prints Drawings & Photographs from the Collection); Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, MA (Material Drawing); and at the Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA (Contemporary Sculpture and Sculptors' Drawings).
She has been widely reviewed in publications such as The Boston Globe, Sculpture Magazine, ArtScope, and Art New England. Grants include: The New England Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, the Elizabeth Firestone Graham Foundation, and the Massachusetts Cultural Council.
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Contact Info
1 Fitchburg St, C312
Somerville, MA 02143
Studio: 617-628-7623
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Photo Credits
Clements/Howcroft, Damianos Photography, Kay Canavino, Bill Kipp, and Julia Shepley