Image: National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington
The exhibition is organized by the National Museum of Women in the Arts in collaboration with Beverly Pepper Studio LLC and the DowntownDC Business Improvement District.
This focus exhibition features several gallery-scaled sculptures by Pepper, including works from NMWA’s collection, maquettes for large-scale works, and a new film about the artist’s monumental projects.
The museum exhibition complements ‘Beverly Pepper: Ten Monumental Sculptures,’ an expansive outdoor installation along New York Avenue, directly outside NMWA’s front door. The outdoor installation includes Pepper’s ‘Broken Circle’ and ‘Todi Columns.’
For more than 70 years, Beverly Pepper (1922 to 2020) explored new purposes and processes in creating large-scale sculpture, and she is celebrated for her innovative, hands-on work with iron, steel, and earth, materials conventionally associated with male artists. Pepper focused on the essential relationship between sculpture and its environment, whether rural or urban.
