However, the traveling exhibition “Sheila Pepe: Hot Mess Formalism,” curated by Gilbert Vicario for the Phoenix Museum of Art in 2017, and the catalogue published with it, shows that Pepe has built a more expansive and complex way of working since her start in the mid-1980s.
THE SNARLING DOG astride the handily engorged cock by Jimmy De Sana; the puckered chapeau of Ryan Wilde; and the sign by Lizzi Bougatsos advertising “For Sale—My Pussy” all felt like a tasteful beginning to another Miami Art Week.
The 15th-century Palazzo Pisani Moretta in Venice is a Gothic-fronted jewel with Baroque interiors, bifora windows fitted with antique leaded glass overlooking the Grand Canal, and sumptuous Tiepolo frescoes.
The photographer won the $100,000 Meraki Artist Award and will see her work go on show at Boston ICA.
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