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MIAMI, FL — March 21, 2025. The Contemporary Art Modern Project (CAMP) is pleased to present Julie Peppito Chooses Hope, a solo exhibition by Brooklyn- based artist Julie Peppito. Julie Peppito Chooses Hope offers a roadmap for navigating chaos through layered compositions of fiber, paint, and found objects. Exploring the tension between expectation and reality, Peppito transforms everyday materials into intricate works that embrace movement, ambiguity, and growth. The exhibition invites viewers to step beyond uncertainty and into possibility—where hope is both a choice and an ever- expanding horizon.
For over 30 years, Peppito has transformed cultural waste into sculptures, tapestries, and installations that explore connection, environmental repair, and the human condition. She holds an MFA from Alfred University and a BFA from The Cooper Union. Her work has been exhibited at institutions including Kentler International Drawing Space, The Brooklyn Botanic Garden, and The Sugar Hill Children's Museum. Her
work has also been featured in The New York Times, on CBS Sunday Morning, and NY1. She has created public art for parks across Brooklyn. The CAMP Gallery is open Tuesday–Saturday, from 11 AM to 5 PM. Private tours can be scheduled by emailing hello@thecampgallery.com or calling 786-953-8807.
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'My work is a composite of candy wrapper glitz and nature’s strange beauty. In this conflicted space, I create sewn, painted and sculpted narratives that show connections between people and the planet we share.
I salvage the excess of societal waste, transfiguring almost everything I find — mangled wire, rubber toys, jewelry scraps, and much more — into intricate constructions. Electrical cords strangle broken figurines, whose bewildered eyes peer out through paint blobs and detailed patterns. Nick knacks and twig appendages sprout within beaded mounds. I adorn trash with elaborate stitches, and obsessively wrap, smash, and suture bits together. Salvaged substrates dictate the shape my works take; some are sculptural, others are flatter wall hangings with topographical elements. My meticulous processes protest the undervalued labor that produces fast goods. I am overwhelmed with a deep-seated feeling that everything's at once valuable and valueless. My work reveals the complexities of being human; I fuse childhood memories, climate change anxiety, familial care, a longing for social and natural mending, and an activist push to somehow reconcile all of this."
The Contemporary Art Modern Project is a contemporary art gallery dedicated to raising awareness for emerging and mid-career artists with a unique emphasis on ultra-contemporary approaches to textiles and fiber art. Founded during the height of the pandemic by Melanie Prapopoulos, the gallery has gone on to create a distinctly academic and thought-provoking arts program in North Miami, and beyond. As a gallery, The CAMP remains steadfast in transparency both for the artist and for the collector, building bridges and connections from creation to acquisition. With a robust local and international roster, the gallery represents artists working in textiles and fiber, painting, photography, sculpture, and installation. Looking at art, as a whole, through a reactionary and interdisciplinary approach, the gallery operates as a space wherein creativity and reality co-exist.
The CAMP Gallery
791-793 NE 125th St.
North Miami, FL 33161
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