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

Andy Warhol: Self-Portraits, Bananas, Flowers, and Shoes

Lower Gallery
Open by appointment

Exhibition Catalogue

“A picture means I know where I was every minute. That’s why I take pictures. It’s a visual diary.”

Andy Warhol

“Looking at a Warhol Polaroid now makes me feel like I’m getting the inside scoop from the artist himself. It’s a test print for a concept. I love feeling like I’m in the studio with him.”

Amanda Hajjar

“Warhol was franker, more probing and more irreverent when confronting himself than he was with other sitters. A master of surface, he didn’t pretend to get beneath his own, but he was good at messing it up.”
Vince Aletti

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

Robert Mangold

Garden Cabin
Open by appointment

Exhibition Catalogue

"I’ve always had the desire to make the work a unity, to make all the elements—the periphery line and the internal line, the surface, color—equal, totally locked together."

Robert Mangold

"Color is so erratic. It’s a wild card in painting. Your attitude towards color is the hardest thing. And now I think of myself as much a colorist as a structuralist."

Robert Mangold

"I have used circles, squares, ellipses and all manor of four- and many-sided forms and combined forms.  I see no difference between this and the way a writer or poet would use words and made-up words to express an idea: the key is to express an idea."

Robert Mangold

Beverly Pepper: Clodia Medea

The Ledge
By appointment only

Exhibition Catalogue

“I create work to discover it. To make its acquaintance. To sculpt a space. A sudden, energetic space.”

Beverly Pepper

“I’m the first person—the first artist in America—to use Cor-Ten. US Steel said to me—because, you know, they liked me. I was this good-looking kid—‘Beverly, why don’t you try this new material we have. It’s Cor-Ten.’”

Beverly Pepper

“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

Vera Girivi: Cats, Clocks, and a Bikini

Lower Gallery
By appointment only

Exhibition Catalogue

"The woman in this painting is young... When you are young, you feel like you can do anything you want."
Vera Girivi

"The gift of painting on a blank canvas always gives me the possibility to dream."
Vera Girivi

"The hazy band of light across the painting represents time escaping somewhere else."
Vera Girivi

"The cat is an ancient animal. It has a certain kind of wisdom accumulated over time. It watches you, lets time pass, and calculates all of its moves."
Vera Girvi