Wired for art

"Gail" (photogravure), by Liz Shepherd, in her show "Look Don't Look,'' at Boston Sculptors Gallery, through Sept. 29.

-- Image courtesy of the gallery

The gallery says the show features a collection of wearable wire sculptures “designed to both conceal and emphasize the person wearing them.’’ Artist Liz Shepherd invited 10 friends "of a certain age" to sit for portraits wearing the wire sculptures. “I wanted to see if their attitude about their appearance might be influenced by the experience of wearing an unusual, often flamboyant, object," she said. The exhibit also includes silkscreen images of the sculptures printed on mirrors so that visitors can view themselves through the lens of the artwork.

Art from waiting

From Liz Shepherd's show "The Wait,'' at Boston Sculptors Gallery, through July 15.  The gallery says:

"Shepherd explores the artist's search for meaning in the aftermath of long days attending a dying parent. The installation uses Shepherd's printmaking expertise as a springboard. Grids of small etchings recall the now absent figure; four large paintings on panel are in dialogue with the etchings on a facing wall. Painstakingly constructed silk-screened paper-mâché chairs hover and seem to evaporate into a silk-screened mural landscape. ''

Liz Shepherd says: "I wanted to flee but I also needed to see it through, to be a comfort and to fulfill a meaningful obligation. I wanted the end to come and the painful act of separation to be over all the while dreading it."