Controlled Chance

Upper Gallery
By appointment only

Exhibition Catalogue

"It is often said that Gilliam’s painting style is inspired by jazz... Colors blended, interpenetrated, and formed expressive, abstract worlds of color that were beyond the artist’s control, despite the regulated production process."
Ann Mbuti

"I think that lack of control helps to open up this whole way of working, where it’s much more about pooling and letting the alchemical aspects of the paint happen. It’s about directing but not really enforcing what happens."
Jackie Saccoccio

"At times, [Saito's] brushwork is controlled, deliberate... at others, he trusted the pigment to go where it wanted. Animated by this accumulation of painterly incident, incongruous tones and textures, variations of line, the surface takes on a life of its own."
Rachel Wetzler

"Norman Lewis... traveled to Greece in 1973; the canvases that ensued were based on a view of a mountain from his hotel room that Lewis drew every day. ‘Actually, I saw the contour of that mountain change, just from the sun,’ he remembered. ‘At night the damn thing disappeared, but I knew it was out there.'"
Ann Eden Gibson

"I follow the materials and my instinct... When I am working I am in a deep unknowing. It's the best part of making art—that silencing of all thinking except the feeling of form and materials and making contact with some other force."
Beverly Pepper

"I did not correct my movements; if they were false, I had to leave them false because I felt that the thinner I paint, the less I can lie... How can one direct spontaneity? One can only rely on the truth of the moment."
Friedel Dzubas

Beverly Pepper: Clodia Medea

The Ledge
By appointment only

Exhibition Catalogue

“I create work to discover it. To make its acquaintance. To sculpt a space. A sudden, energetic space.”

Beverly Pepper

“I’m the first person—the first artist in America—to use Cor-Ten. US Steel said to me—because, you know, they liked me. I was this good-looking kid—‘Beverly, why don’t you try this new material we have. It’s Cor-Ten.’”

Beverly Pepper

“The bold emergence of the curve in Pepper’s most recent work reaches across time to her earliest sculptural endeavors... this is a bridled monumentality wherein movement breaks through the stoicism of the monument. It recalls beyond reinvention. This is lyricism earned.”

Joseph Antenucci Becherer

Christina Nicodema: Extra Special

Lower Gallery
By appointment only

Exhibition Catalogue

"At once hyper-realistic and utterly impossible, the works are oddly mesmerizing."
Artnet,
"Here Are 7 Artists You Might Not Know, But Should"

"It's a moment of peak perfection or celebration. The exhibition title Extra Special refers to how we all want to feel this specialness or uniqueness... Everyone wants their moment."
Christina Nicodema

"[The cakes] possess memories of the past, of societal structures or family structures. I’m thinking about how those things fade and degrade and transform over time."
Christina Nicodema

Lisa Brody: A Sense of Solitude

The Cabin
By appointment only

“Walking is really good for me. There is solace in being out in nature. There are things that I see every single day, but sometimes, something will be slightly different. I see a subtle light shift; the air softens, or the temperature drops. The things I see on walks have so much power. There's a tree or a house or the darkness. I feel the darkness coming in closer.”

Lisa Brody