Beverly Pepper

Last year when we went to Barcelona, one of the pleasant surprises
was Parc de Nord. The park was designed by America sculptress Beverly Pepper who brought the spaces of the park to life with large tiled earthworks. Our photos of the park came out nice, in part, because the colors and the forms made it easy to photograph.

But I was also impressed with Pepper's web site about the park.

Pepper, however, did not want to simply place a sculpture outdoors; she wanted to create a total environment, which would have a practical public use. She considered her park commission a great challenge that would permit her to integrate many of the elements she had studied and worked on separately. She knew it would be difficult, time-consuming, and elaborately complex. In the end, she invested five years, from 1987 to 1992, in collaborating with Catalan landscape architects, Andreu Arriola and Carmine Fiol, and artisans to create the huge, 325,000 square-meter park near the abandoned railroad station.

Closer to home you might have seen her work at Grounds for Sculpture or the more difficult to access Amphisculpture.