Beverly Pepper: Deep Unknowing

Upper Gallery
April 20 - June 27, 2026

Exhibition Catalogue

We are pleased to exhibit Beverly Pepper sculptures spanning her sixty-year career, including a group of rare works from 1961-63 through her late Corten masterpieces.

Our exhibition celebrates Beverly Pepper: Ten Monumental Sculptures on New York Avenue in Washington, DC. The exhibition is presented in partnership with the National Museum of Women in the Arts, the DowntownDC BID, and the New York Avenue Sculpture Project Executive Committee.

Ten Monumental Sculptures opens on June 18 in Washington, DC.

Beverly Pepper: Earthworks will open at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in fall 2026.

"When I am working, I am in a deep unknowing. It’s the best part of making art—that silencing of all thinking except the feeling of form and materials and making contact with some other force."
Beverly Pepper

"Beverly was a titan of contemporary sculpture. She transformed unruly materials into works that are monumental and delicate at the same time."
Christoph Heinrich

“[Pepper’s] many visits to antiquities and archeological sites were inspiring... When she built, she built to last. What she created will still be there when we are gone.”
Barbara Rose

“Messengers literally go between a sender and a receiver who are not in the same place. They arrive with news from elsewhere. It could be this world it could be another. Once they arrive, things are changed. They tell us that change is possible.”
Beverly Pepper