{"id":9500,"date":"2019-08-01T18:22:20","date_gmt":"2019-08-01T18:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/sheila-pepe\/"},"modified":"2019-08-01T19:14:06","modified_gmt":"2019-08-01T19:14:06","slug":"sheila-pepe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/sheila-pepe\/","title":{"rendered":"Sheila Pepe"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9548\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-9548 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/sheila_pepe_Rachel-SternSMALL-240x300-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/sheila_pepe_Rachel-SternSMALL-240x300-1.jpeg 240w, https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/sheila_pepe_Rachel-SternSMALL-768x960.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/sheila_pepe_Rachel-SternSMALL-819x1024.jpeg 819w, https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/sheila_pepe_Rachel-SternSMALL-696x870.jpeg 696w, https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/sheila_pepe_Rachel-SternSMALL-336x420.jpeg 336w, https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/sheila_pepe_Rachel-SternSMALL.jpeg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo Credit: Rachel Stern<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span class=\"\">Sheila Pepe is a cross-disciplinary artist employing conceptualism, surrealism, and craft to address feminist and class issues. Her most recent solo exhibition, <i class=\"\">Hot Mess Formalism<\/i>, organized by the Phoenix Art Museum, traveled 2017 &ndash; 2019 to the Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY; Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha; and the DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA. A book with essays by Julia Bryan-Wilson, Elizabeth Dunbar, Lia Gangitano, and curator Gilbert Vicario accompanied the exhibition. Three more books, released 2019, that feature her work are <i class=\"\">Vitamin T: Threads, and Textiles in Contemporary Art, <\/i>the revised <i class=\"\">Art and Queer Culture<\/i> by Catherine Lord and Richard Meyer, (both published by Phaidon) and&nbsp; <i class=\"\">Feminist Subjectivities in Fiber Art and Craft: Shadows of Affect<\/i> by John Corso Esquivel&nbsp; (Routledge). Pepe&rsquo;s&nbsp; work has also been included in many group exhibitions&mdash;from the first <i class=\"\">Greater New York <\/i>at PS1\/ MoMA; <i class=\"\">The 8th Shenzhen Sculpture Biennale;<\/i> <i class=\"\">Fiber:<\/i><\/span><i class=\"\">Sculpture 1960- Present<\/i>, organized by the ICA\/Boston, to the current <i class=\"\">Queer Abstraction <\/i>at the DesMoines Art Center.<\/p>\n<figure aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9549\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-9549\" src=\"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Pepe_HotMess_Everson_install-1024x702.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"439\" srcset=\"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Pepe_HotMess_Everson_install.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Pepe_HotMess_Everson_install-300x206-1.jpg 300w, https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Pepe_HotMess_Everson_install-768x527-1.jpg 768w, https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Pepe_HotMess_Everson_install-100x70.jpg 100w, https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Pepe_HotMess_Everson_install-218x150.jpg 218w, https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Pepe_HotMess_Everson_install-696x477.jpg 696w, https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Pepe_HotMess_Everson_install-613x420.jpg 613w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">&nbsp;&ldquo;Sheila Pepe: Hot Mess Formalism&rdquo; installed at the Everson Museum, Syracuse, NY.&nbsp;<br \/>This gallery includes drawings, tables of &nbsp;&ldquo;Votive Moderns&rdquo; and &ldquo;Red Hook at Bedford Terrace,&rdquo; 2008, collection of the Smith Art Museum, Northampton, MA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9550\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-9550 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Pepe_SHORtSTACK_72dpi-683x1024-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Pepe_SHORtSTACK_72dpi-683x1024-1.jpeg 683w, https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Pepe_SHORtSTACK_72dpi-200x300.jpeg 200w, https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Pepe_SHORtSTACK_72dpi-768x1151.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Pepe_SHORtSTACK_72dpi-696x1043.jpeg 696w, https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Pepe_SHORtSTACK_72dpi-280x420.jpeg 280w, https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Pepe_SHORtSTACK_72dpi.jpeg 854w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sheila Pepe Short Stack, 2017 wood, paint, and gloss medium 4 3\/4 &times; 5 1\/2 &times; 6 in. (12.1 &times; 14 &times; 15.2 cm)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo Credit: Rachel Stern Sheila Pepe is a cross-disciplinary artist employing conceptualism, surrealism, and craft to address feminist and class issues. Her most recent solo exhibition, Hot Mess Formalism, organized by the Phoenix Art Museum, traveled 2017 &ndash; 2019 to the Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY; Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha; and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":9523,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-9500","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-interview","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9500"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9524,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9500\/revisions\/9524"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}