Alexis Rockman: A Molecule from Madness

Upper Gallery
August 15 - September 4, 2022

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"Hard-core fantasist-realist painter Alexis Rockman has been covering decaying waterfronts for decades. In his beautiful, glowing paintings that tell the story of death stalking us and our polluted environment, he bears better witness than most to lost worlds in the making. His grotesque bestiary will soon be fact, not invention."
Jerry Saltz, New York Magazine

Alexis Rockman is known for his paintings and works on paper which explore the collision between the human induced ecological crisis and its effects on ecosystems and civilization. Initially inspired by his early fascination with the dioramas at the American Museum of Natural History, where his mother, now an urban archeologist, worked in the office of famed anthropologist Margaret Mead, Rockman's work builds on both the history of natural and cultural histories, and the history of landscape painting.

Zoom: Alexis Rockman and Amy Cappellazzo

Alexis Rockman and Amy Cappellazzo joined us on August 16, 2022 to discuss the works in our exhibition "Alexis Rockman: A Molecule from Madness" and Rockman's investigations into water and glaciers throughout his career.

Vera Girivi: At the Garden’s Edge
Ai margini del giardino

Lower Gallery and the Cabin
Opens August 17, 2022

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"Covid forced us to limit our movements. I remember whole afternoons walking back and forth along the perimeter of the garden and looking up at the terraces where others did the same. My figures have freed themselves."
Vera Girivi

"My spaces and my floors that twist and turn are always in motion, even if the women are still. These spaces have a beating heart and a mind that works and thinks."
Vera Girivi

Beverly Pepper: Late Cor-Ten Works

By appointment only

Curvae in Curvae Catalogue / Octavia Catalogue

“Obviously we can’t rebuild the monuments of the ancient world, but we can aspire to re-evoke, in however modern a world, some of the enduring and perhaps renewable sensations of amazement, even awe.”
Beverly Pepper

We are pleased to have installed Beverly Pepper's monumental work Curvae in Curvae (2012-2018) at the Ledge. Standing over seven feet tall and executed in Pepper's signature Cor-Ten steel, Curvae in Curvae speaks to the artist's longstanding wish to bring the past into conversation with the present and the future.

Octavia (2015) is installed nearby at the Meadow, a new outdoor site with a distant vista of a valley that feels reminiscent not only of the Umbrian hills surrounding Beverly’s home and studios in Todi, but also of the landscapes that served as background in so many Italian Renaissance paintings.

Beverly Pepper: Dallas Pyramid

By appointment only

Dallas Pyramid Catalogue

“I was thinking predominantly about the triangle, surfaces, and a greater dynamic in the ratio of weight to rise, to heft... There is no doubt large expanses and great swathes of time were in my mind in those years and affected the form. Dallas Pyramid is another that works against gravity.”
Beverly Pepper

Dallas Pyramid is one of a number of steel pyramids Pepper created in the early 1970s, most of which are permanently installed in public collections. The work relates to Dallas Land Canal and Hillside at NorthPark Center in Dallas, a large scale work commissioned by Patsy and Raymond Nasher that is considered the first commissioned site-specific land sculpture by any artist.