Beverly Pepper
Sunday, October 12, 2003
7:30 - 9:00pm
Free and Open to the public
"Intelligence can do nothing without intuition... the artist must combine intuition and intelligence."
Coming from Italy to present at The Crucible, Beverly Pepper is internationally renowned as an abstract metal sculptor whose work is informed by the forms and forces of the natural world.
Her outdoor environmental projects are a collaboration with the landscape and are on permanent display around the globe. Art - engaged in solving environmental problems - has been central to her work throughout her lifetime. Her huge incisive sculptures in heavy materials like rusty iron or flashing steel and large environmental installations have made her one of the most prominent artists of contemporary art in the world.
She will present an image retrospective of her work and discuss
the artistic process of developing large-scale public sculpture.
A new sculptural piece - designed especially for this
event and cast at The Crucible - will be on display. Back to Lecture Series main page »
This Event is Co-Sponsored by:
Special Thanks to the following event supporters:
Four Vines Winery
The Claremont Resort & Spa
A New Leaf Gallery
and
The San Francisco Foundation
About Beverly Pepper
Born in Brooklyn, New York in 1922, Beverly Pepper divides her time between studios in New York and Italy. Her major site-specific commissions include The Manhattan Sentinels in the Federal Plaza in New York City, Sol I Ombra Park in Barcelona, Spain, and Gottano Community Park in Tokyo, Japan.
Pepper attended the Pratt Institute, the Art Students League of New York, the Academie de la Grande Chaumiere in Paris, and studied under Ferdinand Leger. She then moved to Rome, and concentrating on sculpture, began working in the great Italian metal foundries and factories - creating alongside sculptors such as David Smith and Alexander Calder. The most salient characteristic of Pepper’s bronzes and irons is their quality of sheer presence - her sculptures dominate the field of visual and sensual impression, and forcefully impose themselves as objects of view.
Pepper received the Honor Award from the National Women's Caucus, Queens Museum of Art in 1994, and holds honorary degrees from Pratt Institute, The Maryland Institute, the Accademia di Belle Arti of Perugia, Amic de Barcelona and Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. She is represented internationally in major museum collections, including the Whitney Museum of American Art, NY; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC; the Walker Art Center, MI; the Smithsonian Institute of American Art, Washington DC; the DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Garden, MA; and the Laumeier International Sculpture Park, St. Louis, MO. In 2000, she received the Alexander Calder Prize for sculpture, and in 2003 received the Legends award from Pratt Institute.
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