Pace opens an exhibition of work by American artist Arlene Shechet
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Pace opens an exhibition of work by American artist Arlene Shechet
Arlene Shechet, Together: For Japan (detail), 2024, glazed ceramic and powder coated steel, 14" × 15" × 13" (35.6 cm × 38.1 cm × 33 cm) © Arlene Shechet.



TOKYO.- Pace presents an exhibition of work by American artist Arlene Shechet at its recently opened Tokyo gallery in Azabudai Hills.

On view from November 1 to December 21, Arlene Shechet: Beyond Belief marks the artist’s first-ever solo show in Japan. Bringing together sculptures, works on paper, and tapestries, this presentation offers a broad view of Shechet’s diverse body of work. The exhibition in Tokyo coincides with the final days of her acclaimed presentation Arlene Shechet: Girl Group, featuring six new large-scale outdoor sculptures, at Storm King Art Center in New York.

Born in New York City in 1951 and now based in upstate New York, Shechet is widely known for her genre-defying ceramics and evocatively titled hybrid sculptures that combine steel, clay, and wood. Simultaneously organic and architectural, her works invent new vocabularies and push the boundaries of sculpture and space. Uniting seemingly disparate shapes, colors, and materials, Shechet’s works, while abstract, are imbued with psychological and emotional resonances to invite reflection and empathy. She is represented in major museum collections around the world, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Whitney Museum of American Art in New York; the National Gallery of Art and Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C.; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas, Texas; the Centre Pompidou in Paris; and the Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney.

The artist’s exhibition in Tokyo features new and recent works that ride the edge between stillness and motion, much like that of the Japanese art and material culture that has long inspired her. Shechet engages in a spirited back and forth with her works, embracing improvisation and chance as she brings her complex compositions into being. Fusing the language of the natural world with that of built architectural spaces, she makes sculptures that unearth the expressive potential of material, color, and form, forcing us to sit with—and move around—their contradictions.

Beyond Belief includes a mixture of free-standing and small scale sculptures. Standing over six feet tall, Speaking of Drawing (2022), comprising painted hardwood and plywood elements, reflects Shechet’s interest in cultivating a dialogue between geometric and organic forms that fragment and cohere at different moments. Shechet’s interest in the relationship between sculpture and drawing is made ever more apparent with the exhibition’s inclusion of new, never- before-exhibited works on paper produced by the artist this year, as well as a 1997 work on handmade Abaca paper and textile tapestries from 2019. These two- and three-dimensional works shed light on Shechet’s ability to create texturally and chromatically rich abstractions across mediums, bringing the visual paradoxes of her work into full view. More intimately scaled, vibrant ceramic and steel works from her Together series also figure prominently in the show.










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