TIMELESS Greg Shephard

[Michael Grove]

 In 1992, Greg Shephard began an ongoing series of collaborations

 called the “Freespace 4D™ Trilogy,” which includes friends, artists

 and performers such as Sophie Calle, Yves Musard, Howard

 Schwartzberg, Yutaka Sone and Masami Tomihisa. Role-playing is 

 a significant part of these interactions and resulted in the birth and 

 evolution of George Mercurious, aka Greg Shephard. In the words 

 of George Mercurious, “The Earth is not flat and neither is time.”

 

 “Stay Timeless™,” which functions as the installation’s title and as

 a brand, is a work in progress that “ establishes and maintains an 

 environment where art, time and mythology meet through an

 expanding language of surfaces, all while exploring what it is to

 Stay Timeless™ [in 4D] ”

 

 A central component of the installation is the Stay Timeless™

 clocks, which consist of a convex mirrored surface and a single

 second hand. In these works, Shephard does away with the clock’s

 utility and instead displays that “the time is always now”. 

 Shephard has transformed the environment of our small storefront

 office space by painting the floor white and building units in the

 space using white wainscot paneling accented with green felt.

 Throughout the course of his installation, objects, ephemera, and

 photographs are displayed and rotated within this framework,

 evoking the larger narrative of the work and his life. 

 

 Greg Shephard lives and works in Nantucket, MA.  His collaborative

 film with Sophie Calle (Double Blind / No Sex Last Night, 1992)

 has been screened in film festivals and museums to this date.

 

 Artist Statement

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