Sarah Shepard Gallery is pleased to announce Intersections, a group show bringing together playful, awe-inspiring works across drawing, painting, and sculpture. Intersections features recent works by women artists from the West Coast and the South, including Gina Borg, Windy Chien, Maysey Craddock, Rachel Kaye, and Susan McKinney. This summer show presents structured yet spontaneous forms—such as Craddock’s wild marshlands painted on embroidered found paper and McKinney’s refined wood and ceramic hanging “tapestries”—that play upon the radiance of the season.
Transient memories and forms are captured and celebrated across these works. Pieces such as Craddock’s Cloud Forest and of soft and vernal fields hone in on the ephemerality of changing natural environments, emphasized by the use of repurposed brown paper bags. Her vivid, wandering landscapes are fluid and familiar. Kaye’s intimate drawings suggest a similar, though more introspective, parallel to the season of respite and unwinding. Study on Color, Study on Body, Study on Memory #16, #49, and #93, selected from a larger series, are small in scale given Kaye’s dedication to working with colored pencils on colored paper, inviting viewers in to share in contemplation and celebration.
Works such as Borg’s Float, McKinney’s Optical Tapestry, and Chien’s Diamond Ring also invite reflection and inquiry by challenging our expectations through manipulation of color, shape, and texture. Borg’s softly geometric, colorful fields appear to undulate; McKinney’s hanging, woven ceramic sculptures seem to defy gravity; and Chien’s serpentine, knotted rings have a kinetic quality. Their dynamic forms encourage play and meditation. Entrancing, energetic, and estival, the sixteen works featured in Intersections celebrate a season of creation and exuberance.
Artist Bios
Gina Borg is a painter who lives and works in Oakland, CA. Born in 1973 in Sacramento, CA, Borg attended the MFA program in painting at Boston University and received her BA in Fine Art from the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her work has been shown in solo exhibits at Jancar Gallery, Los Angeles; Jancar Jones Gallery, San Francisco; K. Imperial Fine Art, San Francisco; and Ohlone College, Fremont, CA. Select group exhibitions include De-Mobbing; Landscape, Structure, Bioform, Headlands Center for the Arts; Welcome To My World at NIAD Art Center, Richmond, CA; and Sense of Place at Park Place Gallery, Brooklyn, NY. Her work is included in the collection of the Alameda County Arts Commission, UCSF, and numerous private collections. In addition to her painting practice, Borg also produces a podcast of artist interviews called “Art Talks Again” and has created a community printmaking shop at which she gives weekly workshops on the technique of stone lithography.
Windy Chien is a sculptor who works in San Francisco. Following long careers at Apple and as owner of legendary music shop Aquarius Records, she launched her studio in 2015. She is best known for her 2016 work, The Year of Knots, in which she learned a new knot every day for a year. Her work ranges in size from a knot that can fit in the palm of a child’s hand to room-sized installations that are sought after by private collectors. Select clients include the National Geographic Society, Nobu Hotels, IBM, Google, and the Kering Group, and her work has been covered by Wired, The New York Times and Martha Stewart.
Maysey Craddock currently lives and works in Memphis, TN. She was born in 1971 in Memphis and received an MFA from Maine College of Art, Portland, ME and a BA in Sculpture and Anthropology from Tulane University in New Orleans. Throughout her career spanning over 25 years, she has had numerous solo exhibitions across the United States and Germany, including the Museum of the University of Mississippi; Sears Peyton Gallery, New York; Cris Worley Fine Arts, Dallas; David Lusk Gallery, Memphis; Washington and Lee University, Virginia; Memphis Brooks Museum of Art; Taylor Bercier Fine Art, New Orleans; James F. Byrnes Institute, Stuttgart, Germany; Pan American Art Projects, Dallas, TX; Francine Seders Gallery, Seattle; The Foyer, Munich, Germany; Maine College of Art; and the Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans. Her work has been included in a plethora of group exhibitions and is in the collections of many institutions and organizations, including the Brooks Museum of Art; The Arkansas Arts Center; Music City Center, Nashville; Austin Peay State University, Clarksville, TN; Charles Hotel, Munich; FedEx; First Bank, Nashville; NexAir; Pfizer Corporation; St. Mary’s Episcopal School and The Assisi Foundation in Memphis. She has received numerous awards, grants and residencies, including the Tennessee Artist Fellowship from Austin Peay State University; an Individual Artist Fellowship Award from the Tennessee Arts Commission; Artist in Residence at Oberpfälzer Künstlerhaus, Schwandorf, Germany; Artist in Residence at Maine College of Art; Artist in Residence at Peninsula School of Art, WI and sculpture and painting residencies at the Vermont Studio Center and the Virginia Center for Creative Arts
Rachel Kaye lives and works in San Francisco, CA. Kaye was born in 1981 and earned a BFA from California College of the Arts (CCA) in San Francisco, CA. She has exhibited nationally and internationally in Paris, Tokyo, San Francisco, Oakland, New York, Los Angeles & Palm Beach. Kaye has completed large-scale murals at Google (Mountain View), Meta (Menlo Park) and the Hook Fish Restaurant (San Francisco). Kaye’s work has been featured in the Huffington Post, Refinery 29, Artsy, SF Gate & East Bay Express. Kaye lives with her two children and husband, fellow artist, Jay Nelson, with whom she collaborates with often.
Susan McKinney is a ceramic artist and award-winning industrial designer who lives and works in Marin, CA. She holds a B.S. in Industrial and Product Design from Arizona State University. McKinney focuses on color, material, and finish, collaborating with clients working at the intersection of technology and craft. McKinney began exploring clay’s materiality in 2008, connecting her passion for inventive design with natural materials. In 2018, McKinney founded her own ceramics studio SKINNY Ceramics, which has evolved into her eponymous practice Studio Susan. Her design contributions have received honors from IDEA, Spark, FastCo Innovation by Design, and her ceramics have been featured in exclusive collections with West Elm and SSENSE. She has completed artist residencies in Greece, Denmark, and Japan.
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