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Carrie Moyer & Sheila Pepe: Tabernacles for Trying Times: Museum of Arts and Design,

May 22, 2021 - February 6, 2022
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Carrie Moyer & Sheila Pepe: Tabernacles for Trying Times: Museum of Arts and Design

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May 22, 2021 - February 6, 2022
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Installation view: Carrie Moyer and Sheila Pepe: Tabernacles for Trying Times, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, 2021. Photo: Jenna Bascom. Courtesy the Museum of Arts and Design

Installation view: Carrie Moyer and Sheila Pepe: Tabernacles for Trying Times, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, 2021. Photo: Jenna Bascom. Courtesy the Museum of Arts and Design

Carrie Moyer's two-person exhibition Carrie Moyer & Sheila Pepe: Tabernacles for Trying Times at the Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY.

The Museum of Arts and Design's press release follows:

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’ 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 “trying times.”

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’s development while maintaining their distinct identities as artists, scholars, women, lesbians, and activists. The couple’s more recent collaborations represent an exciting new advancement for these two radical artists’ trajectories, as together they challenge our understanding of craft while expanding definitions of abstract painting.

Carrie Moyer and Sheila Pepe: Tabernacles for Trying Times exhibition at the Museum of Arts and Design, New York, has been organized by the Portland Museum of Art, Maine.

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Installation view: Carrie Moyer and Sheila Pepe: Tabernacles for Trying Times, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, 2021. Photo: Jenna Bascom. Courtesy the Museum of Arts and Design

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