Pace Gallery made its return to Art Basel Miami
Installation view of Pace Gallery at Art Basel Miami Beach, Booth #F9 Miami Beach Convention Center December 4 – 8, 2024 Photography courtesy Pace Gallery
The gallery’s booth (#F9) spotlighted contemporary artists from its program as well as several marquee 20th-century masterworks
The presentation included artists new to Pace’s program: Alejandro Piñeiro Bello and Li Hei Di
At Art Basel, Miami Pace featured contemporary artists Loie Hollowell, Alicja Kwade, Kylie Manning, Adam Pendleton, Hank Willis Thomas, and Leo Villareal, among others.
Pace also brought works by master figures of the past century: Emily Kam Kngwarray, Ellsworth Kelly, Agnes Martin, Joan Mitchell, Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen, and Wayne Thiebaud.
Left to right: Li Hei Di, what pane of glass make lucid the reflection?, 2024 © Li Hei Di, courtesy Pace Gallery; Alicja Kwade, Binding Finding, 2024 © Alicja Kwade, courtesy Pace Gallery; Joan Mitchell, Untitled, c. 1958 © Joan Mitchell Foundation; Ellsworth Kelly, Dark Blue Panel, 1999 © Ellsworth Kelly
Contemporary highlights on Pace’s booth at Art Basel Miami Beach include:
Adam Pendleton, Black Dada (B), 2024 PAINTING Silkscreen ink and black gesso on canvas, two parts 96" × 76" (243.8 cm × 193 cm) © Adam Pendleton, courtesy Pace Gallery
• A new Black Dada painting by Adam Pendleton, who will present a major solo exhibition at the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, D.C. next year, anchoring the institution’s 50th anniversary celebration
Elmgreen & Dragset, The Guardian, 2023 SCULPTURE gilded bronze 114-3/16" × 41-5/16" × 33-1/2" (290 cm × 104.9 cm × 85.1 cm © Elmgreen & Dragset / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
• The Guardian (2023), Elmgreen & Dragset’s 9.5-foot-tall gilded bronze work depicting a figure seated atop a high perch—concurrent with the fair, the artistic duo is presenting a solo exhibition at the Musée d’Orsay in Paris, on view through February 2, 2025
• A group of 12 new, small-scale nipple paintings by Loie Hollowell, who is presenting a solo exhibition at Pace’s Los Angeles gallery through January 18, 2025 and Space Between, A Survey of Ten Years at the ICA at Virginia Commonwealth University through March 9, 2025
• Hold the earth above me (2024), a new painting by Kylie Manning, whose atmospheric backdrops and costumes will be presented at the New York City Ballet in January for the second year in a row—in March 2025, she will mount a solo show with Pace in New York
• A new work from Mika Tajima’s celebrated Art d'Ameublement series, a body of work that also figures in the artist’s ongoing solo presentation at Pace’s Hong Kong gallery
• A new, never-before-seen, freestanding bronze sculpture by Alicja Kwade, Binding Finding (2024)
Alejandro Piñeiro Bello, 500 Years, 2024 PAINTING oil on linen 72" × 60" (182.9 cm × 152.4 cm © Alejandro Piñeiro Bello, courtesy Pace Gallery
• Miami-based artist Alejandro Piñeiro Bello’s painting 500 Years (2024), an undulating, magical landscape inspired by the history and spirit of the Caribbean
• what pane of glass make lucid the reflection? (2024), a luminous large-scale composition by Li Hei Di that reflects the artist’s ability to embed latent narratives about gender, desire, and emotional fluidity in their abstractions and figurations
• A new retroreflective artwork by Hank Willis Thomas, who is presenting a solo exhibition of his work at Pace in London and has curated a show of photographs by Irving Penn at the gallery’s New York space, both on view through December 21
• A new sculpture by Leo Villareal, who is being honored at Ballroom Marfa’s 20th Anniversary Gala this year
Masters highlights on the gallery’s booth include:
• Untitled #12 (1998), a late-career painting by Agnes Martin
• Ellsworth Kelly’s Dark Blue Panel (1999), a striking eight-foot-tall canvas that epitomizes the artist’s radical experimentations with vivid monochromatic color, geometric forms, and flat, unmodulated surfaces
• An untitled Joan Mitchell painting created circa 1958, during the decade that the Abstract Expressionist was developing and refining her lyrical style
• Small cake (2017), a quintessential still life painted by Wayne Thiebaud in the last several years of his life
• Two paintings from the 1990s by Emily Kam Kngwarray, who will be the subject of a major exhibition opening at London’s Tate Modern in July 2025
Claes Oldenburg & Coosje van Bruggen, Study for Blueberry Pie à la Mode, Flying, 1996 SCULPTURE plaster painted with acrylic on metal, wood and plastic base painted with latex 24" x 17" x 11-1/8" (61 cm x 43.2 cm x 28.3 cm) © Claes Oldenburg & Coosje van Bruggen, courtesy Pace Gallery
• Study for Blueberry Pie à la Mode, Flying (1996), a sculpture by Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen
Installation view of Pace Gallery at Art Basel Miami Beach, Booth #F9 Miami Beach Convention Center December 4 – 8, 2024 Photography courtesy Pace Gallery
Pace is a leading international art gallery representing some of the most influential contemporary artists and estates from the past century, holding decades-long relationships with Alexander Calder, Jean Dubuffet, Barbara Hepworth, Agnes Martin, Louise Nevelson, and Mark Rothko. Pace enjoys a unique U.S. heritage spanning East and West coasts through its early support of artists central to the Abstract Expressionist and Light and Space movements.
Since its founding by Arne Glimcher in 1960, Pace has developed a distinguished legacy as an artist-first gallery that mounts seminal historical and contemporary exhibitions. Under the current leadership of CEO Marc Glimcher, Pace continues to support its artists and share their visionary work with audiences worldwide by remaining at the forefront of innovation. Now in its seventh decade, the gallery advances its mission through a robust global program— comprising exhibitions, artist projects, public installations, institutional collaborations, performances, and interdisciplinary projects. Pace has a legacy in art bookmaking and has published over five hundred titles in close collaboration with artists, with a focus on original scholarship and on introducing new voices to the art historical canon.
Today, Pace has seven locations worldwide, including European footholds in London and Geneva as well as Berlin, where the gallery established an office in 2023. Pace maintains two galleries in New York—its headquarters at 540 West 25th Street, which welcomed almost 120,000 visitors and programmed 20 shows in its first six months, and an adjacent 8,000 sq. ft. exhibition space at 510 West 25th Street. Pace’s long and pioneering history in California includes a gallery in Palo Alto, which was open from 2016 to 2022. 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. Pace consolidated its West Coast activity through its flagship in Los Angeles, which opened in 2022. Pace was one of the first international galleries to establish outposts in Asia, where it operates permanent gallery spaces in Hong Kong and Seoul, along with an office and viewing room in Beijing. In spring 2024, Pace will open its first gallery space in Japan in Tokyo’s new Azabudai Hills development.
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