“My way back into painting was to think about queer politics through figuration. At the time, it was the only way I could imagine communicating ideas that felt urgent.” -Carrie Moyer
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"Our responsibility to the artists and community didn’t pause at all. In fact, our efforts multiplied. I suddenly found myself reliving the exhibition planning process. Carrie and Sheila were on speed dial and ready to participate at every turn...I now liken everyone’s efforts to raising a virtual barn: not one part possible without the next, each new strategy supporting and hoisting the next into position." -- Curator of Contemporary Art, Jaime DeSimone, shares her thoughts on Tabernacles for Trying Times as the exhibition comes to a close.
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“All museums are putting a spotlight on their collecting practices and making sure they are being equitable across the board,” DeSimone said. “This is a concentrated effort to bring works of art by women into the collection.”
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“Everyone was masked and happy; one group, a mother and three grade-schooler girls, were positively giddy. I later crossed paths with them inside, where they excitedly chattered about a Thomas Cole painting, and then a small Fitz Hugh Lane. “Woooowww — that’s so cool!” one of the girls crowed, looking at the luminous haze Lane cast above one of his harbor scenes. Inside of me, something bloomed. God, I missed this.”
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“Carrie Moyer and Sheila Pepe, partners in life and—occasionally—art, met in 1995 at the Skowhegan residency in Maine. Now, a quarter of a century later, the two have returned to the northeastern state for their first institutional collaboration.”
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“In their most ambitious joint project to date, the couple have reimagined the religious tabernacle – in Christianity, a sacred meeting place for worship, in Judaism, a portable tent used as a sanctuary for the Ark of the Covenant – as a communal space where visitors can, explains Moyer, “gain sustenance as a community with naturally occurring differences.”
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“…creates a place where people can congregate as a community and talk about how they want to live.”
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The PMA’s Carrie Moyer and Sheila Pepe: Tabernacles for Trying Times and Mythmakers: The Art of Frederic Remington and Winslow Homer make artnet’s “can’t miss list” for 2020.
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