Carroll and Sons / Sheila Pepe

SHEILA PEPEA PLACE FOR LOOKINGWITH PAOLA FERRARIO, FABIOLA MENCHELLI, AND JULIE RYAN

ON VIEW JANUARY 2 - FEBRUARY 14, 2015

CARROLL AND SONS450 HARRISON AVENUE, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, 02118PHONE 617-482-2477 FACSIMILE [email protected]

Installation View 1 Sheila Pepe: A Place For Lookingwith Paula Ferrario, Fabiola Menchelli,and Julie Ryan




Sheila PepeImage (Stuffed)2015 Textiles and yarn13 x 24 x 12”


Sheila PepeLooking Place 12015 Iron, plywood, foam and fabric47 x 18”

Image 1 (Unstuffed)2015 Textiles and yarn23 x .5”


Paola Ferrario Untitled2014 26 x 64”Edition of 3

Sheila PepeLooking Place 2 2015 Iron, plywood, yarn, shoelaces, cushions and fabric32 x 40.75 x 24”

Image 2 (Unstuffed)2015 Textiles and yarn18 x .5”

Image 3 (Stuffed) 2015 Textiles, yarn and batting 15.5 x 16 x 15.5”


Fabiola Menchelli Curved 2012 Archival pigment print 30 x 40”Edition 2/5 + 2 AP

Fabiola Menchelli Triangular Hall2012 Archival pigment print 22.5 x 30” Edition 3/4 + 2 AP


Sheila Pepe Looking Place 32015 Textiles and yarn 115 x 60 x 38.5”

Untitled (with Bolster) 2015 Textiles and yarn

Sheila PepeLooking Place 4 2015 Iron, plywood, yarn and fabric 16 x 25 x 12.25”

Image 1 (Stuffed) 2015Textiles and yarn 29 x 16 x 8”

Image 2 (Stuffed)2015 Textiles and yarn 13 x 19 x 13”


Julie Ryan Bump anf Scratch2014 Oil on canvas 18 x 24”

Julie Ryan Tuck and Cover2014 Oil on canvas 18 x 24”


CARROLL AND SONS 450 HARRISON AVENUE, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02118 PHONE: 617-482-2477 FACSIMILE: 617-482-2549 [email protected]

SHEILA PEPE b. 1959, Morristown, New Jersey EDUCATION 1995 School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, M.F.A. 1994 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan 1984 Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Deer Isle, Maine, Blacksmithing 1983 Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, B.F.A. 1981 Albertus Magnus College, New Haven B.A. SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2014 Corner Piece Redux #2, Carroll and Sons, Boston, MA 2011 Common Sense and Other Things, Carroll and Sons, Boston, MA 2010 Arts on the Point, (public commission) University of Massachusetts, Boston, MA. Simple Drawing 2009 Dust Gallery, Las Vegas, NV. Yo Mama

Testsite/ Fluent - Colab, Austin, TX. with curator Elizabeth Dunbar (May) 2008 Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA. Red Hook at Bedford Terrace

Wayne State University, Detroit, MI. Sheila Pepe: Drawing in Space 2007 World Financial Plaza and Wintergarden, New York, NY. Drawing Center and River to River Festival’s Big Draw: BUS LINES 2006 Rowland Contemporary, Chicago, IL. Mine Ayn 2005 University Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA. Mind the gap (catalogue) Sesnon Gallery, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA. Hot Lesbian Formalism Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, NJ. Tunnel (catalogue) 2004 Bridge and Tunnel, Susan Inglett Gallery, New York, NY I Love New York, Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston, MA Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, Lakeworth, FL. Two Women: Carrie Moyer and Sheila Pepe (catalogue) 2003 Under the F & G, Hand Workshop Center, Richmond, VA From Delancy and Clinton, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA 2002 Susan Inglett, New York, NY Come Fly with Me, Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC High Hopes, Colgate University, Hamilton, NY


2000 Shrink, Zikha Gallery, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT Thread Waxing Space, New York, NY 1999 Strings, Things, and Pictures, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA Jenjoy Gallery, San Francisco., CA Judy Ann Goldman Fine Art, Boston, MA 1998 Susan Inglett, New York, NY Pull, Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA 1997 Fix, Flex, Reflux, Judy Ann Goldman Fine Art, Boston, MA 1996 Part and Parcel, Trustman Gallery, Simmons College, Boston, MA Exquisite Corpse for One: the many betweens, Mobius, Boston, MA 1994 Work from the Doppelganger Series, 88 Room, Allston, MA SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2014 We have never participated, 8th Shenzhen Sculpture Biennial,

Shenzhen, China. Queer Threads: Crafting Identity and Community, Leslie Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art, New York, NY

Come Together: Surviving Sandy, Industry City, New York, NY 2011 Sheila Pepe: Common Sense, Chicago, He Said She Said, Oak Park,

IL. Sheila Pepe: Common Sense and Other Things, Carroll and Sons, Boston, MA

2010 Hand + Made: The Performative Impulse in Art & Craft, curated by Vallerie Cassel Oliver

Fiber/Optics Contemporary Art Museum Houston, TX. Marwen, Chicago, IL. Simple Drawing, public comission for Arts on the Point, University of Massachusetts, Boston, MA

2009 whitey on the moon/white hot money 106 Green, Greenpoint, Brooklyn, NY, curated by Kanishka Raja Pratt Prints, Gallery Belas Atres University Gallery, São Paolo,

Brazil. THREADS, SOMArts / Queer Cultural Center, San Francisco, CA,

curated by Tirza Latimer, Allison Smith and others 2008 Pratt Prints, Gallery Gravura Brasileira, São Paolo, Brazil.

Artcrush, Jenny Jaskey Gallery at 220 Rittenhouse Place, Philadelphia, PA.

The Future Must Be Sweet: Lower East Side Printshop Celebrates 40 years, International Print Center New York, NY, NY. curated by Marilyn S. Kushner Crossing Disciplines: Light, Rubelle and Norman Schafler Gallery,

Pratt Institute, New York, NY. curated by Keith Sonnier Radical Lave and Subversive Knitting, Scottsdale Museum of

Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ., reinstalled “Midtown” Pink and Bent: the Art of Queer Women, Leslie/Lohman Gay Art


Foundation, New York, NY. Color in 3D: Found, Applied, and Readymade, Westport Arts Center,

Westport, CT., curated by Saul Ostrow This Show Needs You, The San Jose ICA, CA., organized by the Love Art Laboratory (Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens)

Radical Lave and Subversive Knitting, Indiana State Museum, Indianapolis, IN., reinstalled “Midtown” Colby Brewer and Me: A collaborative installation with the public, Utah Museum of Fine Arts, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT. Empire of This, Claire Oliver Gallery, NY, NY, curated by Janet Phelps Break the Rules!, Manheim Kunstverein, Manheim, Germany. 2007 Liquid Sky, PS 1/ MoMA, Long Island City, NY., collaborated with Ball-Nogus Architects, deigned and crafted seating Quiet Riot, March Gallery, New York, NY., curated by Julian Kreimer and Karolyn Hatton Material Pursuits, Fleming Museum, Burlington, VT.

Arte Povera Oggi. Per una nuova arte di guerriglia (Poor Art Today. For a New Guerrilla Art) ESSO Gallery, NYC,

Shared Women L.A.C.E., Los Angeles, CA, Subversive Lace and Radical Knitting, Museum Of Arts and Design, New York, NY.

2006 Homo Home, Cinders Gallery, Brooklyn Decelerate, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, KS. Cold Cuts, Rowland Contemporary, Chicago, IL. New Prints 2005/Winter International Print Center New York, NY,

NY. When artists Say We, Artists Space, NYC The Line of Beauty, Athleen Cullen Fine Art, NYC The Collection, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge. I was a Sunbeam, David Kurt Project, NYC Two Friends and So On, Andrew Kreps Gallery, NYC Flex your Textiles, John Connelly Presents, NYC 2005 Every Day Objects, Sun Valley Center for the Arts, Sun Valley Crossing Disciplines: Drawing, Schaffler Gallery, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn. New Prints 2005/Winter, International Print Center, NYC Cold Cuts, Rowland Contemporary, Chicago Decelerate, Kempner Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City 2004 Creative Concepts, Beacon, NY 2003 Project Spaces, Artists Space, New York, NY 2002 The Photogenic: Photography Through Its Metaphors in Contemporary Art, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA Flat/Not Flat, Judy Ann Goldman Fine Art, Boston, MA Grotto, Jessica Murray Projects, Brooklyn, NY Brooklyn: Next Next Visual Art, curated by Dan Cameron, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, NY


2001 Verging on Real, Wave Hill Glyndor Gallery, Bronx, NY 2000 Greater New York, P.S.1, Long Island City, NY Group Show, Brent Sikkema, New York, NY The End, Exit Art, New York, NY Climax, jennjoy gallery, San Francisco, CA The Energy Inside, Grinnell College Faulconer Gallery, Grinnell 1999 Frontline, Boston Atheneum, Boston, MA Museum School Traveling Scholars 1998, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA Compliments, Education Alliance, New York, NY Arrested Ambition, curated by Gregory Williams, APEX Gallery, New York, NY 1998 Drawing the Question, curated by Susan Harris and Jennifer Gross, Dorsky Gallery, New York, NY Elbow Room, Tedje Space Sparet, Stockholm, Sweden Chaos, Control, Chaos, Control. You Like? You Like, curated by Annette Lemieux, Elias Fine art, Boston, MA Works on Paper, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greebsboro, NC 1997 Gramercy International Contemporary Art Fair, Judy Ann Goldman Fine Art, New York, NY Hollywood Premiere: Just for the Night, Hollywood Premiere Motel, Los Angeles, CA Gothic, ICA, Boston, MA Drawing and Painting, Wooster Gardens, New York, NY 1996 Hippie, 88 Room, Allston, MA Pet Paintings, Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston, MA Fictions, Guido Carbone Gallery, Turino, Italy Fuzzy Logic, ICA, Boston, MA Between Desire and Dementia, Salon 75, Brooklyn, NY Integer, Woodstock Center for Photography, Woodstock, NY Pulse: Works on Paper, No B.l.A.S., North Bennington, VT The Lois Foster Exhibition of Boston Area Artists, Part Two, Rose Art Museum, Waltham, MA 1995 Fake I.D., 88 Room, Allston, MA Art Should Rock, VideoSpace at Landsdowne Theater, Boston, MA Way Cool, Exit Art/the First World, New York, NY BIBLIOGRAPHY 2014 Cotter, Hollard. Queer Threads: Crafting Identity and Community,

Leslie Lohman Museum of Gay and lesbian Art. The New York Times, February 22

2013 Smith, Roberta. Come Together: Surviving Sandy. The New York Times, December 6, 2013.

2012 Cotter, Holland. “Art in Review: B-Out,” New York Times (July 12, 2012)


Johnson, Ryan. “Artists on Artists: Sheila Pepe,” BOMB (Number 119/ Spring 2012): 119

2011 Faxon, Alicia, "New Sculpture; Defying Gravity," Art New England: Contemporary Art & Culture, July/August, 2011 p. 12 Fisher, Naomi. “Critics Picks: A Room, in Three Movements.” artforum.com (January 2011) Hedli, Laura. “NY SCHOOLS: Touring the City's Seminar,” Wall Street Journal. (December 1, 2011) Hemmings, Jessica, “Lace as Structural Solution.” Surface Design (Spring 2011): 16. “In Conversation: Carrie Moyer, Sheila Pepe & Alice Randall,” NY Arts Magazine (December, 2011) McQuaid, Cate. “Sheila Pepe’s Strings, Attached and Removed.” boston.com (26 January 2011) Staff, “Goings on About Town: Art: A Room, in Three Movements” The New Yorker (14 & 21 January 2011).

2010 Gschwandtner, Sabrina, “Yo Mama.” Interweave Knits, Spring 2010 2009 Weerts, Emily, “A Stitch in Time: Common Sense at testsite,”

austinist.com (26 June 2009). 2008 Carlin, T.J., “Studio Visit: Sheila Pepe.” Time Out New York (4-

10 September 2008): 98 Carlin, T.J., “Empire of This.” Time Out New York (17-23 January 2008): 64 Davis, Colleen. “Drawing in Space: Sheila Pepe.” detroitchic.com (4 February 2008) Diane, in Elmerst, Queens: “Letter of the Week/ Reply All.” Time Out New York (18-24 September 2008): 4. Parnass, Larry. “Long Ties bind installation artist to Smith museum,” Daily Hampshire Gazette (12 September 2008). Slowinski, Dolores S., Metro Times: Detroit’s Weekly Alternative. (6 February 2008). Staff, “Color in 3D” opens April 18 at Westport Arts Center.” Norwalkplus.com (7 Apr 2008). ———. Smith College Museum of Art Presents Sheila Pepe: Red Hook at Bedford Terrace,” artdaily.org (18 July 2008) ———. Westport Arts Center presents two public arts talks.” Norwalkplus.com (7 May 2008).2007 McFadden, David. Radical Lace and Subversive Knitting. New York: Museum Of Arts and Design

2007 Gardner, James, “ P.S. 1 in the Sun,” The New York Sun (28 June, 2007). Graeber, Lauren, “The Big Draw,” The New York Times (7 September 2007).

2006 Jersey City Museum. First Look: The Essential Guide to Jersey City Museum. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press Joy, Jenn with Helaine Posner, Sheila Pepe and Judy Pfaff, Mind the gap. Amherst, MA: University Gallery, University of Massachusetts


Klose, Stephanie and Cathy Maquire. Lion Brian Yarn: Just Bags. New York: Potter Craft 2005 Dunbar, Elizabeth. Decelerate. Kansas City: Kemper Museum 2004 McQuaid, Cate, An artist weaves her love of New York City into her work, The Boston Globe, March 12, p. C18 Feinstein, Roni, Sheila Pepe and Carrie Moyer, Art in America, December. 2003 Staff, Bridge of Sighs and Shoestrings, Santa Barbara Independent, July 10 – 17, p. 49. Donelan, Charles, New York City on a Shoestring, Santa Barbara News-Press, 18-24 July, p. 6. 2002 Parker, Lauren, Knock Knock, Smock, Spring/Summer 20m, pp. 100- 107. Sozanski, Edward, A Puzzle and a Provocation, Philadelphia Enquirer, March 10, 2002, p. H-7. Schaffner, Ingrid, The Unphotographable, Art on Paper, March- April 2002, p.58. Ryesky, Helene, Photography Seen, Art Matters, April, p. 20. Salcman, Michael, The Photogenic: Photography Through Its Metaphors in Contemporary Art, PEEkreview.net. Scott, Andrea, Goings On About Town, The New Yorker, May 27, p.18. 2000 Sirmans, Franklin, Greg Coates...+Sheila Pepe, Time Out New York, February 24 – March 2, p. 7l. Buskirk, Martha, Planning for Impermanence, Art in America, April p.116. Lloyd, Ann Wilson, Sheila Pepe at the Boston Center for the Arts, Art in America, July, p. 114. 1999 Sherman, Mary, Shape, Shadow prime viewers at Bunting, The Boston Sunday Herald, April 18, p. 55. 1998 Kotz, Liz, Shadow Dancing, OUT Magazine, May, p. 62. Chambers, Christopher, Picks, New York Arts, May, p. 42. Scott, Whitney, Must Gallery, New York Post, April 25, p. 29. Burns, Joe, Shadow play shapes Sheila Pepe's art, Provincetown Banner, May 14. 1997 Gangitano, Lia, Integer, Photography Quarterly #69, vol. 4, Center for Photography at Woodstock. Snyder, Dean, No B.l.A.5. exhibit celebrates artists' drawings, Bennington Banner, January 16, p. 19. Beccaria, Marcella, Sheila Pepe: The Spaces Between, artsMEDIA, January/February p. 35. Mulski, Susan, Trustman Gallery...Boston, Sheila Pepe : Part and Parcel, Art New England, February/March. Smith, Roberta, The Horror: Updating the Heart of Darkness, The New York Times, June 1, p. 33. Cotter, Holland, Drawings and Paintings, The New York Times, September 19, p. E-37.


Raymond, David, The Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston Gothic, Art New England, October/November p. 6l. McQuaid, Cate, Artists to translate works.., The Boston Globe, November 8. 1996 McQuaid, Cate, 'Eccentricities'...'Hippie' is an anonymous.:, The Boston Globe, March 14, 1996. Temin, Christine, Perspectives, The Boston Globe, May 22 p. 66. Staff, Arrivano dagli USA Fra ironia, horror, e linee post-punk di giovani artisti, La Stampa, June 4, 1996. Mulatero, Ivana, Storie delicatamente incoerenti, Corriere Del'Arte, June 22. Staff, Pitura e scultura cercano nuovi liguaggi/lnquietani collages e ironiche 'Fictions', La Stampa, June 27. Cohen, Joyce, Art in a Natural Setting, Art New England, June/July. Levi, Paolo, La Mostra, La Repubblica, July. Perrott, Jeff, Fictions: Marcella Beccaria and the Boston-Torino Connection, artsMEDIA, Summer p. 3l. 1995 Wildman, David, Artitsts draw freely on word hippie, The Boston Sunday Globe, February 25, City 11. Morgan, Robert C., A New York Spring, Cover, Summer 1995, p. 63. MacDonald, Christine, State of the Art: VideoSpace, The Boston Phoenix, October 6. 1991 Wright, Patricia, Women's image that endures, Daily Hampshire Gazette, May 2, p. 23. 1990 Wright, Patricia, Roaming galleries in search of.., Daily Hampshire Gazette, August 22, p. 27. AWARDS 2009 Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant 2008 Nominee, Anonymous was a Woman 2004 Lower East Side Printshop Publishing Residency, New York, NY Rhode Island School of Design Professional Development Grant 2001 Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award 1999 ART/OMllnternational Art Residence, Ghent, New York 1998/1999 Mary Ingraham Bunting Fellowship at Radcliffe College 1998 School of the Museum of Fine Arts Traveling Scholarship 1997 Provincetown Art Association and Museum National Annual Award, Juror: Milena Kalinovska 1994 Geraldine R. Dodge and Ann and Graham Gund Fellowships, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture PUBLIC COLLECTIONS Jersey City Museum, NJ


Ritz Hotel, Boston, MA Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA Chambers Hotel, New York, NY Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA Goldman Sachs, New York, NY List Visual Art Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA Simmons College, Boston, MA

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Carroll and Sons / Sheila Pepe