"Booth D8"
Alexander Calder, Mary Corse, Adrian Ghenie, Matthew Day Jackson, Glenn Kaino, Robert Longo, Beatriz Milhazes, Richard Misrach, Maysha Mohamedi, Yoshitomo Nara, John Wesley, Fred Wilson
PACE GALLERY
510 West 25th Street,NEW YORK NY 10001
Tel 212.929.7000 Fax 212.929.7001 e-mail:
Multiple location : Beijing Hong Kong New York NY(4) Palm Beach FL Menlo Park CA London
Frieze Art Fair
Santa Monica Airport 3021 Airport Ave, Santa Monica, CA 90405, USA
+1 212 463 7488 e-mail:
February 16 > 19, 2023
Booth D8
The gallery’s booth (D8) will spotlight its contemporary program, with works by Yoshitomo Nara, Robert Longo, Alexander Calder, Adrian Ghenie, John Wesley, Maysha Mohamedi, Mary Corse, Beatriz Milhazes, and Fred Wilson among the highlights. For the first time since Frieze Los Angeles was launched in 2019, Pace is operating a permanent space in the city—an exhibition of works by Calder, selected and installed by artist Richard Tuttle, is on view at its West Coast flagship on South La Brea Avenue during the run of the fair.
Works by Los Angeles-based artists Maysha Mohamedi, Mary Corse, and Glenn Kaino will figure prominently on the gallery’s booth. Mohamedi’s new painting The Afterlife II (2023) exudes a sense of freedom and illimitability, pointing toward a new mode of atmospheric abstraction that registers certain conditions specific to LA—and American life as a whole—in the early 21st century. A recent painting by Corse reflects the artist’s ability to infuse her canvases with light. A mixed media sculpture by Kaino will be exhibited on the booth along with a work by Los Angeles-born photographer Richard Misrach.
Two artworks by Yoshitomo Nara—whose first international retrospective was mounted at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in 2021—will be showcased as part of Pace’s Frieze Los Angeles presentation. Among them is the artist’s playful work on paper Remember BTB (2020), which was exhibited in his 2022 solo exhibition with Pace in London and his 2021 solo show at Dallas Contemporary in Texas. This work incorporates acrylic and colored pencil on collaged paper and cardboard. Nara will soon open his first solo exhibition in Australia, on view at the Art Gallery of Western Australia in Perth from February 26 to June 25.
The booth will feature a 1960 standing mobile by Alexander Calder. Transforming the modern conception of sculpture with his mobiles, Calder is widely regarded as one of the most important artists of the 20th century. In the small-scale untitled sculpture in Pace’s Frieze Los Angeles presentation, Calder engages his lyrical abstractions in a playful choreography. Calder/Tuttle:Tentative, presented in collaboration with the Calder Foundation, is on view at Pace’s Los Angeles gallery through February 25. The exhibition focuses on Calder’s artistic output in 1939, with small- and medium-scale sculptures, as well as works on paper by the artist, selected and installed by Richard Tuttle.
Highly detailed, hyperrealistic works on paper by Robert Longo, who presented a solo exhibition titled Sea of Change at Pace’s Los Angeles gallery last year, will also be on display in the gallery’s booth at Frieze Los Angeles.
Among these works is the artist’s intimately scaled Study of Gun Protest (2022), which captures the emotional dimensions of the movement for gun control in the United States. Throughout his career, Longo has drawn inspiration for his work from art historical sources as well as enactments of protest and civil unrest, violence and war, and other social and political happenings around the world culled from news photography and the Internet. As evinced by Study of Gun Protest, Longo has, over the past decade, increasingly turned his focus to images from American media.
A new, large-scale canvas by Adrian Ghenie will be exhibited in conversation with paintings by Matthew Day Jackson—who will open his first solo exhibition with Pace in New York in May—and Beatriz Milhazes on the booth.
