NEW YORK, N.Y..- Pace Gallery recently announced its January program opening at its New York galleries (510 & 540 W 25th Street) in the early new year. The program will feature solo exhibitions with work by David Hockney, Tara Donovan, and Robert Whitman as well as a group exhibition curated by artists Loie Hollowell and Harminder Judge—also featuring paintings by Agnes Pelton and Ghulam Rasool Santosh—and a joint show between photographer, painter, and sculptor William Christenberry & interdisciplinary artist, photographer, and Academy Award-nominated filmmaker RaMell Ross.

Additionally, a special online exhibition of David Byrne’s lenticular photographs opened on Pace’s website. On view through January 28, the presentation will feature seven lenticular photographs—which serve as composite portraits of band and crew members from Byrne’s acclaimed Broadway musical American Utopia—created by the artist this year.

David Hockney: 20 Flowers and Some Bigger Pictures
January 13 – February 25
David Hockney: 20 Flowers and Some Bigger Pictures—a traveling exhibition of recent iPad paintings by David Hockney—features works that elaborate on a series of iPad paintings the artist made while quarantining at his studio and residence in Normandy, France during the pandemic. Pace’s presentation of David Hockney: 20 Flowers and Some Bigger Pictures marks the final leg of the international exhibition, which was presented at Annely Juda Fine Art in London; Galerie Lelong & Co. in Paris; GRAY in Chicago; and L.A. Louver in Los Angeles this fall.

Love Letter
Curated by Loie Hollowell and Harminder Judge
January 13 – February 25
Love Letter—a group exhibition curated by artists Loie Hollowell and Harminder Judge—will bring works by Hollowell and Judge in conversation with paintings by Agnes Pelton, a founding member of the Transcendental Painting Group in the United States, and Ghulam Rasool Santosh, a modernist Kashmiri painter and poet associated with the neo-tantra painting movement in India.




Together, the 24 works in the exhibition—six by each of the four artists included—will conjure new connections between painting of the 20th century and the present day, foregrounding the experiential and transportive power of abstraction. Running concurrently with Hollowell’s first institutional solo show in the US at the Manetti Shrem Museum of Art at the University of California, Davis, Love Letter will be complemented by a dedicated booklet produced by Pace Publishing and available on-site at the gallery in spring 2023. More information is available in the press release here.

Tara Donovan
January 13 – February 25
This show will bring together a selection new and recent works by Tara Donovan from her screen drawings series, made with aluminum insect screen. For these works, which Donovan began creating during the pandemic, she moves, pinches, and cuts the wires of aluminum screen to extract mesmeric patterns from the material’s existing grids. Ranging from just over a foot in height and width to nearly four feet wide and tall, these two-dimensional screen drawings feature unique geometric motifs that produce varied visual effects.

William Christenberry & RaMell Ross
January 13 – February 12
This two-person exhibition juxtaposes works by the late photographer, painter, and sculptor William Christenberry and the interdisciplinary artist, photographer, and Academy Award-nominated filmmaker RaMell Ross. Organized by Ross in collaboration with the Christenberry family, the show will shed light on the two artists’ distinct approaches to creating a portrait of a place: Hale County, Alabama.

Reflecting distinct artistic visions and historical contexts, works by Christenberry and Ross employ radically different modes of engagement with the spirit of Hale County, yet both artists deal directly with the racial violence embedded in its history. Ross’s photographs serve as lush, tender portraits of Black life in the American South, while Christenberry’s beautifully composed yet largely unpeopled images focus on the region’s changing landscape over time. Exhibited in dialogue with one another, the artists’ works grapple with the beauty of everyday life over and against the legacy of white supremacist terrorism that has shaped the history of both Hale County and the United States itself. Ross’s sculptural and performance work Return to Originwill be displayed in conversation with Christenberry’s installation Klan Tableau, 1962–2007, which has never before been shown in a gallery setting.

Robert Whitman: American Moon
January 19 – February 3
This multifaceted program—comprising an in-person exhibition, an accompanying performance series organized by Pace Live, a dedicated online viewing room, and a new generative NFT series—is dedicated to Robert Whitman and will be launching at the gallery’s 508 West 25th Street space. The in-person and online exhibitions, along with the live performances, will focus on the artist’s seminal 1960 performance work American Moon, a production realized as part of the experimental Happenings scene on New York’s Lower East Side in the late 1950s and early 1960s. The release of Whitman’s first-ever web3 project—which transports viewers to otherworldly, cosmic landscapes beyond the Earth—will coincide with the exhibitions and live events centering on American Moon.