Three Windows

Gerda Scheepers

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By applying imagery as short-hand for both her own art making process or specific (cultural) signs and figurations, Gerda Scheepers explores the medium of painting. Content and formal elements of painting are remixed through cut, copy and paste with the results actively pursuing ambiguity. Her paintings, as well as her sculptures, operate like devices for containment that, ultimately crucially, fail to contain. Scheepers delves into the techniques of collage and decoupage, using them as visual and linguistic instruments to disrupt the continuum of the familiar and enable a continuum between apparently disparate registers. Simultaneously, she employs collage as a tool to didactically, and sometimes humorously, imitate the brutal fragmentation brought on by life’s daily efforts. In Scheepers’ words, “the studio functions somehow as a capsule, where possibilities and restrictions play themselves out.” ...

Selected Artworks
History of a hand
Gerda Scheepers
History of a hand, 2019
110 x 62cm
Pondoland pocket
Gerda Scheepers
Pondoland pocket, 2014
93 x 94 x 20cm
Abstract Emotional (Storage) - black
Gerda Scheepers
Abstract Emotional (Storage) - black, 2013
150 x 86 x 24cm
Medium and Modality Picture (T-Shirt with Label)
Gerda Scheepers
Medium and Modality Picture (T-Shirt with Label), 2012
100 x 80cm
The Style
Gerda Scheepers
The Style, 2016
165 x 220cm
Showing method, showing message
Gerda Scheepers
Showing method, showing message, 2016
182 x 240cm
The Shame
Gerda Scheepers
The Shame, 2016
182 x 240cm
Temple / Template
Gerda Scheepers
Temple / Template, 2022
200 x 165cm
Love your symptom, but not too much
Gerda Scheepers
Love your symptom, but not too much, 2020
70 x 90 x 3.2cm
Volume
Gerda Scheepers
Volume, 2020
90 x 70 x 3.2cm
Shelf for a Symptom (black/bordeaux)
Gerda Scheepers
Shelf for a Symptom (black/bordeaux), 2019
90 x 74 x 15cm
Pillow Riley (small)
Gerda Scheepers
Pillow Riley (small), 2019
62 x 42 x 2cm
The story of me and my mother
Gerda Scheepers
The story of me and my mother, 2017
138 x 323cm
64 A/B (yellow)
Gerda Scheepers
64 A/B (yellow), 2019
79.5 x 64 x 7cm
CLOUDS
COPYSHOP GOD
Gerda Scheepers
COPYSHOP GOD, 2024
220 x 300cm
MOTHER BROTHER GAZA
Gerda Scheepers
MOTHER BROTHER GAZA, 2024
220 x 300cm
ROOF (III)
Gerda Scheepers
ROOF (III), 2024
300 x 220cm
Isa Genzken
Gerda Scheepers
Isa Genzken, 2024
40 x 30 x 4cm
COPY ME
Gerda Scheepers
COPY ME, 2024
40 x 30 x 4cm
Tie Back
Gerda Scheepers
Tie Back, 2024
40 x 30 x 4cm
Look back
Gerda Scheepers
Look back, 2024
40 x 30 x 4cm
Hands
Gerda Scheepers
Hands, 2023
40 x 30 x 4cm
ROOF (I)
Gerda Scheepers
ROOF (I), 2023
40 x 30 x 4cm
ROOF (II)
Gerda Scheepers
ROOF (II), 2023
40 x 30 x 4cm
HEADREST
Gerda Scheepers
HEADREST, 2024
40 x 40 x 4cm
FALL
Snow
Three Windows
Gerda Scheepers
Three Windows, 2025
50.5 x 76cm
Gallery Representation
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