biography
Debbee Sheppard is a freelance graphic designer, artist, and illustrator. Born in Detroit, Michigan, Debbee has always found creative inspiration through personal trials and works diligently to convey her messages with minimum detail.
Sheppard attended Schoolcraft College in Livonia, Michigan,where she studied Graphic and Web Design. Prior to graduation, Sheppard was a self-taught artist and has been a freelance contractor for over 15 years. She started professionally exhibiting her work as well as creating visual and promotional designs for various clients.
As an artist, Debbee creates works in a variety of mediums ranging from water color to fiber art to photography to digital art. She brings a tremendous sense of pride and enthusiasm to every design project which is attributed to strong lifelong work ethics paired with an eccentric imagination. Her work has been classified at times as avante garde with elements of both figurative and abstract elements.
artist statement
Debbee Sheppard is an artist who works in a variety of media. With a subtle minimalistic approach, Sheppard creates work in which a fascination with the clarity of content and an uncompromising attitude towards conceptual and minimal art can be found.
The work is aloof and systematic. Her practice provides a useful set of allegorical tools for maneuvering with a pseudo-minimalist approach in the world of art: these meticulously planned works resound and resonate with images culled from the fantastical realm of imagination. With a conceptual approach, she tries to approach a wide scale of subjects in a multi-layered way, likes to involve the viewer in a way that is sometimes physical and believes in the idea of function following form in a work.
Her works directly respond to the surrounding environment and uses everyday experiences from the artist as a starting point. Often these framed instances would go unnoticed in their original context.
Always on an creative quest, I look forward to future projects.
Please visit my YouTube page for recordings.
I, Norton: An Opera in Real Time by Gino Robair. Collaged workshop and concert footage
from the Contemporary Art Institute of Detroit and The Heaven Gallery (Chicago, IL).