Artist: Austin Sheppard | Location: Davidson, NC
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Artist: Austin Sheppard | Location: Davidson, NC
Davidson, NC
Austin Sheppard's mixed media sculptures and drawings are self-reflective and phenomenological in the sense that he begins from his personal experiences as an individual. But through the vehicle of the human figure, he also explores the shared human condition by expressing emotional experiences like anxiety, anguish, endurance and resilience. Austin earned his BFA in Studio Art from the University of North Carolina, Pembroke in 2007 and his MFA in Sculpture from East Carolina University in 2010. In 2013, he was a finalist in the Young Sculptors Competition for the William and Dorothy Yeck Award at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. In 2014, Austin exhibited in Lilliputians March at Purdue University and was an Artist-in-Residence at the Scottish Sculpture Workshop. Previously, he's been an Artist-in-Residence at Franconia Sculpture Park (2010), Salem Art Works (2011) and has participated in the International Sculpture Symposia in the UK, Finland, Costa Rica and Latvia. Austin currently works from a studio on his family's 280-year-old farm.