FOR
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
BEVERLY
PEPPER
Natura
Naturans: A
Survey
December 5,
1997 - January 17, 1998
The
Charles Cowles Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition of new works by BEVERLY
PEPPER from December 5th, 1997 through January 17th, 1998. The Gallery is located at 420 West Broadway
between Prince and Spring Streets. The
Gallery hours are Tuesday through Saturday, 10am - 6pm. There will be a reception for the artist on
Thursday, December 4th, from 4 to 6pm.
The gallery will be closed for the holidays.
The
title of BEVERLY PEPPER's latest series, Natura Naturans, refers
to a nature devoid of human influence.
These paintings are a response to the surroundings of her studio in
Todi, Italy. Typically, PEPPER's
paintings have depicted landscape in a more identifiable manner, recognizable
by their use of horizon, depth, and perspective. The Natura Naturans works are mottled and pitted with
various textures created by mixing and burnishing materials such as cement,
cloth, and even styrofoam together with oil paint. The effect is a more deeply abstracted and direct evocation of
landscape; one that is literal in a tactile and intuitive sense rather than a
representation rooted in traditional two-dimensional renderings.
Known
for her totemic, minimalist sculpture, BEVERLY PEPPER has synthesized
the aesthetic vision of her steel sculpture with her expressive oil paintings,
while continuing to imbue the paintings with the luscious color and surface of
her earlier work. Along with the most
recent series of paintings will be several paintings and wall reliefs created
over the last few years. The wall
reliefs particularly reinforce the bridge between PEPPER's sculpture and
painting, while the earlier paintings underscore the evolution of her work from
her Odyssey Series to Natura Naturans.
BEVERLY
PEPPER has shown extensively throughout the United States and Europe. Her work is included in many major private
and public collections including: the
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo;
the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; the Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse; the
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington; and the Galleria d'Arte
Moderna, Florence.
For further
information or photographs, please call (212) 925-3500.