Beverly Pepper: My Circle

The Ledge

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"I think it’s essential that we hold on [to] those threads of continuity. We hold onto the idea that we believe. I’m too old to think the world is going to come to an end... quite clearly my life will come to an end; but I like to think that the world will then go on. And I think the world will also go on with or without man, you see. But continuity has always been almost the raison d’être."
Beverly Pepper

We are pleased to exhibit Beverly Pepper’s late masterpiece My Circle at the Ledge.

"I live in the present but draw from the past, both within the back of the mind and within the substrates of history. Counting on a future is too problematic. I think that my works end up 'knowing' more than I can about the future — and clearly I’m interested in materials that endure, that might have something to say to those who come after us."
Beverly Pepper