Beverly Pepper: Time
Upper Gallery
October 29 - December 23, 2022
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"Time, that fourth dimension, has always been an essential element in Pepper’s work — a desire to create something outside history, something bigger and more enduring than herself, than all of us."
Megan O’Grady, T Magazine
Beverly Pepper’s career as a sculptor began after a 1960 trip to Angkor Wat, where the artist was inspired by the roots of the Banyan trees growing over ancient ruins. Pepper’s earliest sculptures incorporated natural forms of wood and bronze. Our exhibition includes several early works that have not been previously exhibited.
While she later explored different materials and methods, all of her works share a timeless quality and a link to nature. Pepper’s hard-edged stainless works from the late 1960s through early 1970s strive to capture the natural world and surrounding environment in their polished planes; Pepper’s soaring iron and Cor-Ten pieces take a material found deep within the Earth and thrust it into the sky.
"Pepper is ever mindful of history... Her sculptures may be read as timeless references that nevertheless maintain a vital dialogue between past and present."
Douglas G. Schultz, Sculpture in Place