Beverly Pepper: Clodia Medea
At the Ledge

October 19 - November 28, 2020

"In new works [like Clodia Medea], radically curved planes open and peel away, drawn from memories of the earlier dominate curves. In the end,   I realize that the value of my effort in art can be measured by the surprise and   renewal in the work as it emerges - finding the past and future comingling in the most unexpected forms."
Beverly Pepper

James Barron Art is pleased to exhibit Clodia Medea, one of Beverly Pepper's major late sculptures. Completed in 2018 and standing nearly 8 feet tall, Clodia Medea is part of a series that was first exhibited at Ara Pacis Museum, Rome in 2014. 

“She felt… that she had broken through to the work she had always wanted to make. Work that put the future in deep conversation with antiquity... These were the works of a lifetime.”
Jorie Graham

"The bold emergence of the curve in Pepper's most recent work reaches across time to her earliest sculptural endeavors... this is a bridled monumentality wherein movement breaks through the stoicism of the monument. It recalls beyond reinvention. This is lyricism earned."
Joseph Antenucci Becherer