Carrie Moyer and Sheila Pepe: Tabernacles for Trying Times

Sculptor Sheila Pepe and painter Carrie Moyer have achieved international acclaim through abstract works that are rich with color and materiality and informed by feminist politics. These qualities are displayed in their full splendor in Carrie Moyer and Sheila Pepe: Tabernacles for Trying Times—the first major museum exhibition to explore both the individual practices and collaborative works of this married artist couple—and in this unique and exquisitely designed exhibition catalogue. Tabernacles for Trying Times reimagines a familiar form of religious furniture—the tabernacle—as a symbolic location for cultural values such as justice, equality, and knowledge. Pepe and Moyer embrace and expand these values in this exhibition, using representations of the tabernacle to create spaces for community and dialogue. Building on this idea, the artists collaborated on a site-specific work, Parlor for the People, wherein the conceptual tabernacle becomes a real-world forum. This site-specific w