Beverly Pepper

Beverly Pepper ( born December 20, 1924 in New York) is an American painter and sculptor.

Life and work

Beverly Pepper was in Brooklyn New York on 20 December 1922. When she married the journalist and author Curtis Bill Pepper, she changed her maiden name Stoll in Pepper. She studied at the Pratt Institute and Brooklyn College. She knew the artist Frederick Kiesler and continued her studies in 1949 in Paris at the Académie de la Grande Chaumiere. Beverly Pepper works and lives in Todi, Italy and New York City.

The artist painted from 1949 to 1960 and learned in that time the work of Fernand Léger, Ossip Zadkine, Brancusi and the Cubists André L' Hote know. In 1951, she moved to Todi in Italy.

From 1960, she turned to sculpture and art in public space. The curator Giovanni Carandente invited her along with David Smith (sculptor ), Alexander Calder, Arnaldo Pomodoro, Lynn Chadwick and Pietro Consagra to prepare an exhibition.

Pepper works in the field of land art and uses stainless steel, painted steel, bronze, stone, cast iron for her sculptures. She regularly presents at the André Emmerich Gallery, New York and the Marlborough Gallery d' Arte from Rome, Italy.

Solo Exhibitions

• 2008 Beverly Pepper: Explorations in Stone, Marlborough Gallery, New York
• 1991 The Metropolitan Museum of Art
• 1987 André Emmerich Gallery, New York. Catalogue by Ronny Cohen
• 1976 San Francisco Museum of Art,
• 1971 Gallery Hella Nebelung, Dusseldorf
• 1965 Marlborough Gallery d' Arte, Rome. Catalogue of M. Gendel
• 1952 Galleria dello Zodiaco, Rome. Catalog by Carlo Levi

Group Exhibitions

• 2011 54th Venice Biennale, Venice
• 1977 documenta 6, Kassel
• 1972 23rd Venice Biennale

Awards (selection)

• 2007 Pratt Alumni Achievement Award, Pratt Institute Brooklyn, New York
• 2003 Alexander Calder Sculpture Prize, Sache, France
• 1994 Outstanding Achievement in the Visual Arts, Women 's Caucus for Art, Queens Museum of Art, Queens, New York, United States
• 1987 Accademico di Merito, Accademia di Belle Arti, Perugia, Italy
• 1983 Honorary Doctorate at the Maryland Institute, Baltimore, Maryland, United States
• 1982 Honorary Doctorate at the Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York, United States
• Order: Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, France