Colette Copeland interviews Ethel Shipton as part of a series of pieces celebrating Glasstire's 25th anniversary.
Exploring moments of everyday life, Shipton’s practice encompasses painting, installation, photography, and text. Her work has been featured in solo and group exhibitions at venues across Texas and beyond, including the Inaugural Exhibition of Ruby City, Artpace, the McNay Art Museum, and Sala Diaz in San Antonio; the McKinney Contemporary Art Center in Dallas; and The Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, NY. Shipton was also a 2017 participant in the Berlin Residency Program, a partnership between Blue Star Contemporary and Künstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin, Germany. In 2023, Shipton had a solo exhibition, Ethel Shipton: Los Dos Laredos y Más, in her hometown at the Laredo Center for the Arts. Her recent group exhibitions include Regarding Ruscha at the McNay, Stitch in Time at Women and Their Work in Austin, Piecework at the Dallas Center for Contemporary Art, Latinx Art: Transcending Borders at Octavia Art Gallery in Houston, and Analia Segal and Ethel Shipton: Feminizing Forms at Finesilver Gallery in San Antonio.
