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Carrie Moyer and Sheila Pepe: Tabernacles for Trying Times

May 22, 2021 - Feb 13, 2022

The first major museum survey of painter Carrie Moyer and sculptor Sheila Pepe, whose abstract works, rich with color and materiality, explore themes of craft, feminism, and queer activism. Highlighting the artists鈥 individual styles and techniques, collaborative works, and new directions, the exhibition presents their most ambitious collaboration to date. The impressively scaled Parlor for the People is a site-specific installation that reimagines the religious tradition of the tabernacle as a communal space open to all for the discussion of justice, equality, knowledge, and these 鈥渢rying times.鈥

For Carrie Moyer and Sheila Pepe, the evolution of their artistic practices is inextricably linked to their twenty-five-year love story. A couple since 1998, they married in 2015. Over the decades, they have broken through homophobic and sexist barriers to build careers of international acclaim.  As a painter, Moyer developed a visual language that weaves together abstraction, bodily forms, and logo-like imagery. Pepe is best known for her use of industrial materials, which she knots, knits, and crochets into monumental structures. In the exhibition, individual works from over the last decade demonstrate how Moyer and Pepe have informed each other鈥檚 development while maintaining their distinct identities as artists, scholars, women, lesbians, and activists. The couple鈥檚 more recent collaborations represent an exciting new advancement for these two radical artists鈥 trajectories, as together they challenge our understanding of craft while expanding definitions of abstract painting.



The first major museum survey of painter Carrie Moyer and sculptor Sheila Pepe, whose abstract works, rich with color and materiality, explore themes of craft, feminism, and queer activism. Highlighting the artists鈥 individual styles and techniques, collaborative works, and new directions, the exhibition presents their most ambitious collaboration to date. The impressively scaled Parlor for the People is a site-specific installation that reimagines the religious tradition of the tabernacle as a communal space open to all for the discussion of justice, equality, knowledge, and these 鈥渢rying times.鈥

For Carrie Moyer and Sheila Pepe, the evolution of their artistic practices is inextricably linked to their twenty-five-year love story. A couple since 1998, they married in 2015. Over the decades, they have broken through homophobic and sexist barriers to build careers of international acclaim.  As a painter, Moyer developed a visual language that weaves together abstraction, bodily forms, and logo-like imagery. Pepe is best known for her use of industrial materials, which she knots, knits, and crochets into monumental structures. In the exhibition, individual works from over the last decade demonstrate how Moyer and Pepe have informed each other鈥檚 development while maintaining their distinct identities as artists, scholars, women, lesbians, and activists. The couple鈥檚 more recent collaborations represent an exciting new advancement for these two radical artists鈥 trajectories, as together they challenge our understanding of craft while expanding definitions of abstract painting.



Artists on show

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Sunday - Wednesday
10:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Thursday
10:00 AM - 8:00 PM
Friday - Saturday
10:00 AM - 6:00 PM
2 Columbus Circle Midtown - New York, NY, USA 10019

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