Beverly Pepper: Capturing Light
Upper Gallery
Open by appointment
Exhibition Catalogue
“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
“If one were to categorize these structures, one would dub them a type of Archeological Minimalism... According to the artist... she wanted ‘the past to participate in their presentness.’”
Phyllis Tuchman
“When I stood [the Altars] up they were very silent. They had a kind of space around them I couldn’t understand. It surprised me. I could feel it. A mystical space that develops between the viewer and the work.”
Beverly Pepper
Beverly Buchanan: Stone Works and Shacks
Lower Gallery
Open by appointment
Exhibition Catalogue
“Rather than being remembered for an enduring beauty or grace, ultimately Buchanan's oeuvre will be recognized for its powerful observations about the inherent strength of the human spirit.”
Trinkett Clark
"I want to give people who can neither read nor write but made all the measurements and built their own barns and shacks a different way of looking at themselves. My fascination is with buildings and ruins. But there’s more fascination with life and its positive aspects."
Beverly Buchanan
"[Buchanan's work has] an unfinished quality in the same sense that Vincent van Gogh's paintings feel unfinished, allowing the viewer to almost grasp the artist's fugitive feelings."
Ellen Flomenhaft
"[Buchanan's] concern was with the ways in which ruins can evoke decay, neglect, unknowability and loss, while standing at the same time as images of persistence and perseverance."
Amelia Groom
Rodolfo Morales: Living Memories
Garden Cabin
Open by appointment
Exhibition Catalogue
"[Morales'] message is simple and direct; it does not remain on the surface... it reaches our innermost selves and makes us feel it and enjoy it thoroughly because it is full of truth."
Rufino Tamayo
Living Memories highlights three rare Rodolfo Morales paintings from 1969, which show the artist working in his inventive, mystical dreamscape.
''I came here [Oaxaca] to live in my memories. Nostalgia and melancholy are very important to me.''
Rodolfo Morales
Katherine Bradford:
Underworlds and Outer Space
The Cabin
Open by appointment
Exhibition Catalogue
"The characters [in Katherine Bradford's paintings]... are moving along the surface of the earth, and between underworlds and outer space. The paintings suggest rapture in all senses of the word – enchantment and bliss, as well as imminent demise. They have an unearthly, radiant inner light."
Jennifer Samet, Hyperallergic
"Bradford’s figures are immediately recognizable, a little cartoon-like in their economy and their defiance of gravity and, sometimes, of logic, but they also insist on being taken very seriously."
Karen Wilkin
"I’m dismantling icons, the ship and the Superman. I’m showing them as vulnerable, and yet we’re used to seeing them as subjects of strength."
Katherine Bradford
Beverly Pepper / Outdoor Sculpture
Currently on view by appointment only
“Time, that fourth dimension, has always been an essential element in [Beverly] Pepper’s work—a desire to create something outside history, something bigger and more enduring than herself, than all of us.”
Megan O’Grady
Curvae in Curvae (2012 - 18)
Curvae in Curvae (2012)
Helena (2014 - 18)
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