Beverly Pepper: Land Art and Monumental Sculptures opens October 23 at the National Museum of Women in the Arts and runs through April 25, 2027. The museum's exhibition page describes gallery-size works, models for large projects and a new film, alongside an existing outdoor installation on New York Avenue.
The pairing gives visitors a concrete comparison. A model can be seen close to the eye and against a controlled gallery background. A street installation shares its setting with buildings, traffic, pedestrians and changing daylight. The different settings change both the apparent scale and the background of the sculpture.
Gallery models and street sculpture
| Setting | Part of the presentation |
|---|---|
| Gallery | Smaller works and models for monumental projects |
| New York Avenue | Large outdoor works set among buildings and open sky |
| Exhibition film | A filmed account of monumental projects |
The museum places the indoor presentation in the ground-floor Teresa Lozano Long Gallery. Its posted exhibition hours are Tuesday through Sunday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; confirm the date-specific arrangements and admission before traveling. Outdoor visibility does not establish access to the museum's galleries.
The DowntownDC installation announcement identifies ten outdoor works along New York Avenue between 9th and 13th streets NW. That installation began June 18 and is scheduled through June 1, 2027. The indoor and outdoor presentations therefore have different closing dates; April 25 ends the museum show, not the avenue installation.
Pepper's Untitled, dated 1993, gives the indoor comparison a manageable scale. The museum lists the cast-iron work at 29 3/4 inches tall. A work of that height can be studied without the distances that a street sculpture imposes. The gallery allows a close view of the cast-iron form. In the street, a building edge, a row of cars or a bright patch of sky can occupy part of the same view.
