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Selected Artists shown (1960 - 2005) John Altoon Garo Antreasian Robert Arneson Lewis Baltz Jean Barker Robert Bechtle Lisa Bloomfield Rebekah Bogard Robert Brady Allan Bret Marion Joan Brown Jonah Brucker-Cohen Deborah Butterfield Bruce Cannon Kathryn Clark Enrique Chagoya Warrington Colescott Kevin Cook Bruce Conner Jane Davidson Roy DeFrost Joseph DeLappe Arthur Elsanaar Kota Ezawa Mary Filippo Carol Flax John Yoyogi Fortes Annabel Frearson Joanna Frueh Peter Goin Ralph Goings Juan L. Gomez-Perales Shalom Gorewitz Nancy Grossman Betty Hahn Robert Heinecken Alexandre Hogue Lynn Kirby Paul Kos Cassandra Lehman Lisa Link Judy Malloy Edw Martinez John Mason Philippe Mazaud Pedro Meyer Richard Misrach Robert Morrison Manuel Neri Nathan Olivera Harold Paris David Park Oliver Pietsch Fred Reid John Roloff Howard Rosenberg Edward Ruscha Michael Sarich Carol Setler Jeffrey Schultz Tamara Scronce Louis Siegriest Joan Stavely Tamara Stone Christina Tamblyn Wayne Thiebaud Lorriann Two Bulls Peter Voulkos William T. Wiley Samuel Yates Judith Yourman

2004 Exhibitions
current, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001, 2000
2004 in the Sheppard Gallery
	7th Biennial Valentine Exhibit & Auction January 8 - February 5, 2004 An exhibition of local art and a benefit for the Sheppard gallery.
Simple Tech February 10- March 5, 2004 simple.tech, was assembled by guest curator, Joseph DeLappe, (http://www.delappe.ws) head of UNR’s Digital Media program. The exhibition brought together the work of 5 contemporary artists who utilize new technologies to create work of “simple” means with a depth of meaning, humor and concept. The exhibition is international in scope, featuring artists working in a diversity of media from 5 countries. annabel frearson, tamara stone, jonah brucker-cohen, oliver pietsch, kota ezawa	for more information visit the simple.tech website, click here
	John Mason/ March 15- April 14, 2004 John Mason, a ceramic sculptor and installation artist, is a seminal figure and one of this nation's foremost contemporary sculptors, as well as a former Nevadan.   He is credited with bridging the worlds of contemporary decorative and fine art. Mason turned modernism's dictum, that an artwork should be true to its materials by reflecting their nature, on its head in the late 1950's and 60's.   His revolutionary ceramic sculptures, like the work of Peter Voulkos, with whom he was closely associated, were the result of a dialogue with Abstract Expressionism, the dominant contemporary art movement of the postwar period. Mason's trademark towering vertical clay sculptures expressed the straightforward physicality of clay, but also a minimalist elegance of repeating geometrical forms.   His environmental sculpture celebrates the land, revealing existing relationships, simple presence, and complex scale.   His work has been shown internationally for the past 40 years. John Mason has had a significant involvement with the City of Reno for many years.   In 1979, he produced a site-specific piece The Peavine Installation on the campus of the University of Nevada, Reno.   In the prevailing years, the University has built up the campus and changed the nature of the piece, with buildings now in the site-line of the artwork.   During his stay we will revisit the siting of the piece, with the intent of hopefully re-positioning it on the University campus and potentially acquiring it for the Special Collections.   If Mason cannot find a new location on campus, we would potentially be looking for another institution/site in Reno to collaborate with and move the installation. In discussions of re-siting the piece, the gallery will work with former Sheppard Gallery director Walter McNamara, responsible for the original installation of the public art piece.   Lecture, student critiques, catalog.
Student Show April 16- April 30, 2004 Reception April 16
	Faculty Show July 12 - August 13, 2004 Faculty Show: Rebekah Bogard, Dean Burton, Joseph DeLappe, Peter Goin, Joanna Frueh, Edw Martinez, Robert Morrison, Fred Reid, Michael Sarich, Tamara Scronce. The Sheppard Gallery featured the University of Nevada, Reno's Art Department studio art faculty during the City of Reno's Artown summer event. This exhibit offered a rare opportunity for the students and the greater community to experience contemporary art being produced by professionals in their field.
Fred Reid August 23- September 24, 2004 A solo exhibition featuring a visual, historical dialog between Fred Reid and Craig Sheppard, from his days as a student through the present.   Reid will use the forms of a Brewers blackbird and a smooth eared dog form to trace imagery and conversations from past thirty years.
	Lynn Kirby October 7- November 5, 2004 Lynn Kirby video installation is the result of a series of improvisations and excavations. Kirby explores these technical/ perceptual lapses within a system or grid to find new ways of seeing and to explore the line between what we perceive as extraordinary and which few see as ordinary and take for granted in our every day lives.
Enrique Chagoya November 15- December 17, 2004 Enrique Chagoya paintings and prints are about the changing nature of culture. Chagoya's artwork is a conceptual fusion of opposite cultural realities which have experienced in his lifetime. He integrate diverse elements: from pre-Columbian mythology, western   religious iconography and American popular culture.

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