Beverly Pepper: Deep Unknowing
Upper Gallery
Open by appointment
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
"Art is a link from one passage of time to another passage of time. And those links are what keeps us going."
Beverly Pepper
“[Pepper’s] bronze spires [feel] like an ancient petrified forest... What is clear is that she has left behind a body of work that will act as a monument to a woman of considerable genius, a marker of something bigger.”
Hall W. Rockefeller
"[The Todi Columns] look as if they’ve descended from a civilization that worshipped steam, steel, and iron. And yet Pepper drew the visual language of industrialization into conversation with the romance of a medieval town built of stones on blustery slopes."
Debra Brehmer
"Beverly Pepper was a force of nature. She had more energy than anyone I have ever known... She had it in spades."
Phyllis Tuchman
Francesco Polenghi and Massimo Micheluzzi: Invisible Breath
Lower Gallery
Open by appointment
Exhibition Catalogue
We're pleased to present the work of Francesco Polenghi and Massimo Micheluzzi, exhibited together for the first time. Living and working in Milan, Polenghi painted while reciting a mantra he learned after spending much of the 1980s living in an ashram in India. Massimo Micheluzzi lives and works in Venice, where he continues the centuries-old tradition of Murano glassblowing. Micheluzzi re-imagines the repetitive patterns of the floors in St. Mark's Basilica and the waves in Venice's canals.
Both artists arrive at a type of hypnotic patterning in their respective mediums, which Barry Schwabsky described as a form of abstraction with "no figure, no ground... just this incessant bustle of matter set in motion by an invisible breath."
“Polenghi remains very much an artist yet to be discovered.”
Barry Schwabsky, Artforum
“My father believed that your time on this planet is not important—it’s about transcending to a higher plane of existence.”
Dara Polenghi
“Massimo's work is really deeply Venetian, well and truly rooted in the history, the shapes, and the forms of this unique city.”
Viretta Micheluzzi
“Those simple, sculptural forms with their deeply ground incisions seemed to me to be closely connected to [Venice] itself. They recalled the patterns made in the water by boats as they move through the canals.”
Barry Friedman
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
Clodia Medea (2014 - 2024)
Curvae in Curvae (2012 - 18)
Curved Presence (2012)
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