NEW YORK, NY.- Pace announced its upcoming September exhibition program at its New York galleries—510 and 540 W 25th Street—and its Los Angeles gallery, featuring works by artists Joel Shapiro, Mary Corse, Jiro Takamatsu, and Torkwase Dyson.

NEW YORK

Joel Shapiro
September 13 – October 26

Joel Shapiro’s first solo show with Pace in New York since 2014, this presentation, which will be accompanied by a new catalogue from Pace Publishing featuring an essay by poet and scholar Vincent Katz, will spotlight three never-before-exhibited painted wood sculptures from the artist. One of America's most renowned artists, Shapiro has pushed the boundaries of sculptural form over the course of his 55-year career with a body of work distinguished by its dynamism, complexity, and formal elegance. All the works in this exhibition began as studies between 2020 and 2022, and the centerpiece will be a multipart sculpture, ARK, which careens across the gallery as it verges on taking off, its brightly colored limbs, volumes, and planks projecting outward as if from a maelstrom.

Mary Corse: Presence in Light
September 13 – October 26

Marking Mary Corse’s first solo show in New York since 2019 and following several recent institutional exhibitions by the artist, Mary Corse: Presence in Light will debut a new series of diamond shaped paintings—the first she has made since the 1960s—which continue her longstanding practice of incorporating glass microspheres into the painted surface. Corse’s return to the format of the diamond underscores one of the hallmarks of her practice: an interest in recursion and return to early ideas. Over the course of her six-decade career, Corse has explored phenomena of light, space, and perception in sublime and boundary-crossing abstractions across mediums. Also included in the presentation at Pace will be Corse’s Halo Room, a new architectural installation that she has been developing over the last several years, which offers a participatory, intimate experience of scale, space, and light, that hinges on the energetic relationship between individual and object. Corse’s upcoming exhibition at Pace will coincide with her participation in Particles and Waves: Southern California Abstraction and Science, 1945-1990—a group exhibition organized as part of the Getty’s PST ART: Art & Science Collide initiative—at the Palm Springs Art Museum in California.

Jiro Takamatsu
September 20 – November 2

Following its representation of the Jiro Takamatsu Estate, Pace will present the first exhibition of works by Jiro Takamatsu—a profoundly influential artist, theorist, and teacher who emerged in postwar Japan in the early 1960s—at the gallery’s 540 West 25th Street flagship in New York. The presentation will focus on Takamatsu’s Shadow and Perspective concepts, bringing together a selection of his paintings, drawings, and sculptural objects dating from 1966 to 1997. Takamatsu was a prolific artist who produced diverse bodies of work simultaneously, often examining ideas about reality and the self, matter and space, and presence and absence. This exhibition will showcase his inventive, deeply philosophical practice and his important role in the development of Conceptual Art.

LOS ANGELES

Torkwase Dyson: Here
September 14 – October 26

Presented as part of the Getty’s PST ART: Art & Science Collide Participating Gallery Program, Here will showcase new paintings by Torkwase Dyson at Pace’s Los Angeles gallery. The show will further explore ideas about the environment, architecture, infrastructure, and black space that are central to the artist’s practice, serving as a continuation of Dyson’s ongoing Bird and Lava series, which she began making in 2020 and first exhibited at Pace’s East Hampton gallery that year. Ahead of her exhibition at Pace in LA, the artist is presenting a large-scale sculpture in the 2024 Whitney Biennial in New York through August 11.