Willard Boepple
HIGHLIGHTS
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, permanent collection
Storm King Art Center, permanent collection
Metropolitan Museum of Art, permanent collection
National Academy of Arts and Letters
Mead Art Museum, Amherst College
Royal Academy of Arts, London
The German Embassy, London
Willard Boepple is an unabashed modernist — an innovator who works within a well-defined sculptural tradition made new through his passion and his wonderful sense of surprise. Boepple’s sculptures make manifest the latent friction and release in their geometries, creating a changing symphony of negative spaces as one surveys his sculptures from different perspectives. He emphasizes economy and restraint in the judicious placement of each linear element: these works are both concise and quite light, creating beautiful dance-like structures of complexity and ease.
Willard Boepple was born in Bennington, VT in 1945 and currently splits his time between Vermont and New York City. He is represented in New York, London, and New England. His work is included in the public collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Storm King Art Center, Mountainville; and the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK, among others. He was elected to the National Academy of Arts and Letters in New York in 2010 and his work was included in their 2015 invitational exhibition.