CURRENT
HOMEWARD BOUND at Artisan Lofts, Tribeca, NY,
Curated by Garvey / Simon, New York, NY
Homeward Bound at Artisan Lofts by appointment only, contact Liz Garvey 917-796-2146 or liz@garveysimon.com to schedule a viewing. Texts welcome.
Featuring: Daisy Craddock, Peter Drake, Timothy Hursley, Lori Larusso, Eileen Murphy, Melanie Parke, Julie Peppito, Lily Prince, and Linda Kamille Schmidt
October 4, 2024 – April 30, 2025
(New York, NY – Tribeca) – Garvey | Simon is pleased to present Homeward Bound, a group exhibition exploring interiors, domesticity, and familial structures. The works in this show evoke the comfort, intimacy, and unique qualities of home through a diverse range of mediums and perspectives. Each piece invites viewers to reflect on their own experiences of belonging, showcasing the emotional and sensory connections we forge with our surroundings. From cozy interiors to the warmth of familiar objects and architectural structures, these artworks explore themes of nostalgia, safety, and personal identity. Image: Still Life with Plastic, 2020, 24in. x 30in. x 2in., reclaimed objects and fiber, acrylic paint on stretched canvas
WISH LIST at DFN Projects, New York, NY
Curated by Garvey/Simon, New York, NY
Dec. 11, 2024 to Jan. 24, 2025
Wishlist is a holiday show curated by Garvey / Simon, New York
Christopher Adams, Kathleen Beausoleil, Sarah Brenneman, Dina Brodsky, Susan Cohen, Daisy Craddock, Jaynie Crimmins, Patricia Fabricant, Leslie Fry, Margot Glass, J Ivcevich, Lori Larusso, Lisa Lebofsky, Sandy Litchfield, Claire McConaughy, Eileen Murphy, Steven Paddack, Carolanna Parlato, Julie Peppito, Mary Reilly, Doug Safranek, Lynnette Therese Sauer, Linda Kamille Schmidt, Emma Tapley, Melanie Vote
SATURATED at GAP 1 Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Curated by Heskin Projects: Elizabeth Heskin, Tracey Ravdin Perlmutter and Patricia Spergel
Sept. 11, 2024 to Jan. 7, 2025
Featuring the work of Loren Munk, Giordanne Salley and Jack Arthur Wood, Julie Peppito
The five artists in SATURATED play with density of forms, colors and materials- these works are the antithesis of minimal; one could say that many of these works lean towards “horror vacui”, a Latin phrase describing a fear of, or aversion to, empty space. The complexity and richness on display in these paintings creates a positive and vivid pulsing awareness—the visual equivalent of a shot of caffeine or adrenaline to engage the mind and the soul.
Holding Pattern (detail), 2024
48 in. x 36 in. x 4 in.
Reclaimed textiles, beads, thread, gouache, acrylic, thread, canvas
RECENT
WE GOT THE POWER at The CAMP Gallery, Miami, FL.
Oct. 11 to Dec. 20, 2024
WE GOT THE POWER is the Contemporary Art Modern Project (The CAMP Gallery) sixth edition of their annual fiber show: Women Pulling at The Threads of Social Discourse. The exhibition is curated by gallery founder and director, Melanie Prapopoulos, and assistant director Maria Gabriela Di Giammarco. View works This exhibit draws inspiration from Lysistrata by Aristophanes, and Spike Lee's response to organized violence in Chi-Raq. Honoring the play and its era, over 100 pieces were made for the open call, all touching on themes of violence, war, sexual power, the patriarchy, and the power of women. Covered in Vanity Fair, Nov. 12, 2024.
Image: Lizzo's Lasso (detail), 2024, 12 in. x 24 in., Reclaimed fiber, gouache, acrylic, thread.
PLUSH at Montserrat Galleries, Beverly, Mass.
July 15 - October 14, 2024
PLUSH is a group exhibition that explores references to and uses of stuffed toys in a range of artistic practices that extend beyond contexts of childhood. Through a variety of media, including sculpture, assemblage, mixed media, and photography, the participating artists transform reclaimed and fabricated objects to convey a range of human emotions. Turning away from the idea of the stuffed toy as merely a ‘toy’, these plush objects become charged metaphors exploring love and attachment, becoming surrogates, comfort items, and tangible manifestations of joy or sorrow. The exhibition aims to consider how we form attachments to these objects and what their softness evokes within us.
Curated by Crow Stevenson, Montserrat Galleries Curatorial Assistant, with Lynne Cooney, Director of Exhibitions and Galleries.
Image: All-In-One, 2023, Reclaimed objects, paper mâché, fabric, thread, beads, clay, resin, gouache, wood, fabric paint.
STRUCTURAL PLAY at Sugarhill Children’s Museum of Art & Storytelling, New York, NY
Curated by JHB Gallery
Feb. 9 - May. 26, 2024
Featuring the work of Golnar Adili, Malene Barnett, Jaq Belcher, Ellen Carey, Samantha Holmes, Karen Margolis, Mia Pearlman, and Julie Peppito.
Sugar Hill Children’s Museum of Art & Storytelling
898 St. Nicholas Avenue @ 155th Street
New York, NY 10032
The exhibition highlights the work of eight women artists working across media; from paper, ceramics, mixed-media installation to photography, their work is linked by an engagement with processes of play, experimentation, and material exploration. Review in Gotham To Go.
AMONG FRIENDS at Metaphor Projects, Brooklyn, NY
Curated by Alexandra Rutsch Brock, Beth Dary and Patricia Fabricant.
April 5 - 7, 10 - 14, 2024
Metaphor Projects
382 Atlantic Ave
Brooklyn, NY
Among Friends reflects and responds to the strength and illumination artists find through art, friendship and community. Inspired by the Robert Rauschenberg artwork Hiccups, this is the fourth iteration of this event.
The show will consist of 200 pieces of 9 x 7 inch paper, each work by a different artist, zipped together into one continuous exuberant piece. Each in individual piece will be for sale for $300 with a percentage going to Planned Parenthood.
This year Among Friends community donation will again be to Planned Parenthood.
PAST
SELECT EAST 2023
Curated by Garvey Simon, New York, NY
October 23rd, 2023 - January 23rd, 2024
Kathleen Beausoleil, Martin Benson, Sarah Brenneman, Jaynie Crimmins, Beth Dary, Leslie Fry, Julie Peppito, Christine Romanell, and Lynnette Sauer.
(New York, NY and Artsy.net) Garvey|Simon is pleased to announce SELECT EAST 2023, the eighth annual exhibition of work by emerging and mid-career artists chosen by director Elizabeth K. Garvey through its innovative Gallery Review Program. SELECT 2023 will have East and West iterations this year, encompassing and giving opportunity to a wider demographic of artists. SELECT WEST will be held at our Bay Area gallery.
NARS FOUNDATION EXHIBIT: Julie Peppito, Yasmeen Abdallah and Woolpunk
The NARS Foundation Brooklyn, NY
Oct. 13 - 15, 2023
As Part of The NARS Foundation Open Studio weekend, fiber artists Julie Peppito, Yasmeen Abdallah and Woolpunk layer imagery, embroidery and yarn, to tell stories about politics and nature.
SPRING / BREAK , NYC
with The CAMP Gallery Miami, FL
Sept. 7 - 11, 2023
FREAKS OF NATURE curated by The CAMP Gallery
Freaks of Nature, The Contemporary Art Modern Project (CAMP) curatorial project for SPRNG/BREAK Art Show, replaces mainstream gendered gazes with ones solely grounded in imagination.
SPRING/BREAK Art Show is a curator-driven art fair. With over 120 curatorial projects, 150 curators and 400+ artists, SPRING/BREAK is a destination to experience contemporary art by established and emerging artists.
I-PARK ARTIST’S RESIDENCY
Hamden, CT
July 6-31, 2023, I-Park, Hamden, CT
At the I-Park Artist’s Residency I created a large scale tapestry-installation called Liberty Landscape and an outdoor installation made almost entirely from debris called Work in Progress. It was incredible to build a sculpture that emerged from their giant junk pile.
UPSTATE ART WEEKEND
The Barne on Berme Kerhonson, NY
July 21-24, 2023
With Michela Martello, Manju Shandler, Patricia Fabricant and Suzanne Furlong Kiggins
UPSTATE ART WEEKEND is a massive art event that takes place annually in Upstate New York. It launched in 2020 with 23 participants, expanding to over 130 in 2023, welcoming thousands of visitors to the region each year. The participants are art organizations, galleries, museums, residencies, and creative projects. It was founded by Helen Toomer.
THE CONTINUUM OF CONNECTION : Julie Peppito & Sooo-z Mastropietro
at The CAMP Gallery Westport, CT
April 12 - May 27, 2023 - October 23, 2022.
The Contemporary Art Modern Project (CAMP) Gallery, 190 Main Street, Westport, CT
Julie Peppito and Sooo-z Mastropietro are fiber-based and mixed media artists who explore connection through art and social practices, positing a new direction for acceptance in communities.
FOR THE BIRDS
Brooklyn Botanic Gardens Brooklyn, NY
June 18 - October 23, 2022.
Brooklyn Botanic Gardens, Brooklyn, NY
Reviewed in The New York Times
Sept 1, 2022 by Will Heinrich
“They’re as small — and as apparently inaccessible to anything larger than a baby hummingbird — as Mary Frank’s birch bark “Habitat” in the Shakespeare Garden, or as tall and extravagantly welcoming as Julie Peppito’s 14-foot pile of found objects and concrete, “United Birds of America (E Pluribus Unum).”
More coverage in The Metro Section of The New York Times, in The Daily Beast, on NY1, and on CBS Sunday Morning with Martha Teichner.
SPRING/BREAK, NYC
The CAMP Gallery Miami, FL
Sept 7 - 12, 2022, New York City
Five of my small mixed media sculptures were included as part of The CAMP Gallery’s exhibit “Burrowed in the Garden” in the SPRING/BREAK art show.
Reviewed in:
ARTNET by Sarah Cascone, Sept. 8, 2022
JULIE PEPPITO: LOVE IS THE KEY
Montserrat Galleries Beverly, Mass.
July 18 - Sept 16, 2022
Statement by Lynne Cooney, PhD
Director of Exhibitions & Galleries
Montserrat College of Art Galleries
Julie Peppito: Love is the Key presents a series of recent and new artworks that interrogates the political and environmental impacts of our consumer-based culture. An activist and artist, Peppito uses her artmaking to draw connections between our dependence upon cheaply made and disposable goods and its destructive effects on the planet and on human health.
WAKE UP! : The Fantastical Drawings of Julie Peppito
Including: Date Night Drawings with Gideon Kendall
Kentler International Drawing Space Brooklyn, NY
Feb 12 - March 27, 2022.
Exhibition statement by Charlotta Kotik, Curator Emerita of Contemporary Art at the Brooklyn Museum.
The Wake-up Call of Julie Peppito
Julie Peppito balances her roles as an artist, activist, educator, mother, and indispensable partner to her artist-illustrator husband, Gideon Kendall, with aplomb. Her creative approach reflects her many interests and abilities, daringly juxtaposing media and techniques, and intertwining them within phantasmagorical compositions. Peppito’s charcoal and pencil drawings are often adorned with layers of colorful fabric, miniature quilts, buttons and beads, stitching, and fragments of plastic toys and utensils. The seductive qualities on the surface of her work underscore an urgent message – our world is drowning in the flood of overproduction that is destroying our environment, health, and planet. We pretend that more is always better, while only a fraction of the world’s population benefits from the unregulated growth that is causing this fateful harm.
Read the entire statement HERE.
AFTER NATURE: The Art of Julie Peppito
Long Island Children’s Museum Long Island, NY
February 1, 2020 - March 29, 2021
An NEA funded solo exhibition at The Long Island Children’s Museum, NY
PAST HIGHTLIGHTS:
MAKING MEANING OUT OF ANYTHING, July 29, 2019, Artspiel.org. An interview with Etty Yaniv. Click here for article.
MAKING A STATEMENT THROUGH TEXTILE ART, January 7th, 2019, TextileArtist.org. An interview with Heidi Ingram. Click here for article.
IN HER HANDS, June 14 - August 17, 2018, Robert Mann Gallery, NYC. An exhibit of portraits of 15 women candidates created by 15 women artists, co-curated by Julie Peppito & Orly Cogan. Click here for more.
NATURE, FASHION & WAR, April 6-26, 2018, Living Arts, Tulsa, Oklahoma. A solo exhibition of mixed media works that explore the roots of war and greed and their effects on our biosphere. Click here for more.