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Pace announces an exhibition of new, never-before-exhibited paintings by Maysha Mohamedi |
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Maysha Mohamedi with sketchbook and corresponding painting (Bait, 2023) at her Los Angeles studio. Photo by Megan Cerminaro © Maysha Mohamed.
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TOKYO.- Pace will present an exhibition of new, never-before-exhibited paintings by American artist Maysha Mohamedi to mark the grand opening of its Tokyo gallery in the citys Azabudai Hills.
On view from September 6 to October 16, the show, titled Maysha Mohamedi: yesterday I was a tiny tube of toothpaste, will showcase the artists ability to use color and calligraphic abstraction as means for storytelling. To accompany this exhibition, Pace Publishing will produce a facsimile of the studio sketchbook she used for the works in her Tokyo show, featuring a new text by writer Brian Dillon.
Mohamediwhose work can be found in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miamiis a self-taught artist raised in San Luis Obispo, California, who trained as a neuroscientist before pursuing a career as a painter. Now based in Los Angeles, she is known for her atmospheric abstractions that reflect her own thinking about universal ideas and experiences. In her paintings populated with idiosyncratic, spirited forms that unfold, unspool, and reveal themselves over time, she explores relationships between color, shape, language, matter. Invention and discovery lie at the center the artists approach to mark making, and her paintings are invested in a kind of excavation, in which she carves out space around and through contour. A subtle mystery resides in the core of each of her worksfor Mohamedi, this essence is what guides her towards different forms in her painting process, leading her to a sort of untouchable, sacred truth that defies easy articulation and rationalization.
Functioning as maps of cognition and experience, Mohamedis compositions are made up of her uncannily crisp brushstrokes and painterly flourishes, which she builds up intuitively and contemplatively. Moments of rupture and embrace can be traced across her abstractions, forged through collisions of her own hand and body with the surfaces of her canvases. Using memories, ideas, words, and feelings as origins for her painted abstractions, she draws from a personal lexicon of geometric shapes to express details and anecdotes from her own life in ineffable, intangible, and universal terms. Mohamedis approach to color also grounds her works in her own worldcollecting and archiving colors for her paintings as part of her daily experiences and observations, her chromatic storytelling animates her canvases with a sense of vitality and harmony.
Mohamedis first solo show in Japan and all of Asia, this presentation spotlights paintings produced in 2023 and 2024. For these works, she drew inspiration from her diary chronicling her brief time working in Japan two decades ago. In creating her new paintingshalf of which are named for people and places that she encountered and wrote about in her journal during that tripthe artist reentered and reactivated the psychic space of her 20s, weaving together coincidences and serendipitous situations from her formative experience abroad and the present circumstances of her life. In this way, the works on view in Tokyo will shed light on one of the hallmarks of Mohamedis practice: her use of abstraction to forge a patchwork of stories and scenes from her daily life and interpersonal relationships.
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