Cookie Consent by Free Privacy Policy website Pace Gallery is pleased to detail its presentation at FOG Design+Art in San Francisco.
january 20, 2023 - Pace Gallery

Pace Gallery is pleased to detail its presentation at FOG Design+Art in San Francisco.

On View Jan 19 – Jan 22, 2023 - San Francisco 

The gallery’s booth (206) will showcase the breadth of its program—with a focus on contemporary abstraction—featuring works by Adam Pendleton, Elmgreen & Dragset, Sonia Gomes, Arlene Shechet, Mika Tajima, Lee Ufan, Louise Nevelson, and other artists.

Adam Pendleton’s new silkscreen ink painting Untitled (Days) (2022), the largest work on view in Pace’s booth, will anchor the gallery’s presentation at the fair. Known for his use of historical and aesthetic content from visual and literary culture, Pendleton often examines the resonances of ideas from histories of social resistance and artistic production, including Dada, Minimalism, and Conceptualism. In Untitled (Days), layered abstract forms and linear flourishes coalesce in lyrical, fluid choreographies across the canvas. Pendleton’s resulting composition is at once balanced and frenetic, a visual paradox that speaks to the multivalent nature of his art.

Also in the way of painting, Pace’s booth will include Lee Ufan’s dynamic 2018 painting Dialogue, a work that reflects the artist’s unique approach to color and space. Lee, who recently opened an extension of his foundation in Arles, France, has said that one of his aims as an artist is to create highly abstract works that eschew realism and legible representation—Dialogue brings into focus Lee’s ability to infuse his ineffable works with philosophical import.

Pace’s booth will also feature a new mixed media artwork by Mika Tajima, who joined the gallery’s program in 2022. Titled Negative Entropy (TAE, Test Shot, Inner Divertor Operation, Norman, Cream, Double) (2022), this abstract work is rendered in cotton, nylon, polyester, wool acoustic baffling felt, and white oak.

Sculpture will figure prominently in the gallery’s presentation at FOG. Highlights include Arlene Shechet’s new small-scale work Nephew (2022), which features glazed ceramic, painted and dyed hardwood, and steel elements. Nephew’s idiosyncratic plays of color, texture, and shape exemplify the central consideration of Shechet’s practice: uncovering the expressive potential of materials and forms and setting them in motion. Next Sentence, the artist’s solo exhibition at Pace’s Palm Beach gallery, is on view through February 5, running concurrently with the FOG fair.

A wall-mounted sculpture by Sonia Gomes, who recently presented her first-ever solo show in New York at Pace’s 540 West 25th Street gallery, will also be exhibited in the booth. In Cristal 1 (série tela-corpo) (2022), Gomes uses acrylic, vinyl, crystal, assorted fabrics, and wire to forge otherworldly abstractions. Through kneading, twisting, and stretching, the artist grapples with the stories and memories rooted in her fabrics and other materials, imbuing her resulting sculptures with personal and political resonances. In her laborious process for creating these multimedia works, Gomes considers sewing akin to drawing: a means to produce gestural marks and compositional balance.

The duo Elmgreen & Dragset’s new mirror-polished stainless steel and lacquer sculpture On Target, Fig. 12 (2022) will also be featured in the booth. This reflective, wall-mounted work serves as an off-kilter bullseye, inviting the viewer into its central ring.

Contemporary sculpture will be presented in dialogue with a rare wall relief by Louise Nevelson, whose legacy looms large in the gallery’s program and the history of art in the 20th century. Through her tireless experimentations with materiality, shape, and space, Nevelson cultivated her own distinctive language of abstraction and assemblage. Nevelson’s Southern Shores XXXI (1968), a rare white painted wood collage wall relief, will be presented in Pace’s booth at FOG. This monochromatic work features abstract elements in frame-like compartments, a signature of Nevelson’s oeuvre.

Pace is pleased to participate in FOG Design+Art for the eighth time, the first since the gallery closed its Palo Alto location and consolidated its West Coast activity through a new flagship in Los Angeles, which opened in April 2022 and is presenting an exhibition of work by Alexander Calder—selected and installed by artist Richard Tuttle—from January 21 to February 25, 2023. Pace’s engagement with Silicon Valley’s technology industry has had a lasting impact on the gallery at a global level, accelerating its initiatives connecting art and technology as well as its work with experiential artists.

 

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