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Jan 18 – Jan 21, 2024
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FOG Art+Design
Fort Mason Center
Booth 212
Jan 18 – 21, 2024

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Above: Mika Tajima, Art d'Ameublement (Pedra Oneal), 2023 © Mika Tajima

Pace Gallery is pleased to announce details of its presentation at FOG Design+Art in San Francisco from January 18–21, 2024.

The gallery’s booth (#212) will showcase its contemporary program with a strong focus on women artists, featuring works by Mary Corse, Huong Dodinh, Sonia Gomes, Alicja Kwade, Arlene Shechet, and Mika Tajima as well as Robert Longo, Hank Willis Thomas, and others.

A vibrant new painting from Mika Tajima’s Art d'Ameublement series—named for French composer Erik Satie’s furniture music, or musique d’ameublement—will figure prominently on the booth. In her Art d'Ameublement paintings, each of which is subtitled with an uninhabited geographic location, the artist creates vivid color gradients through her application of airborne paint atop transparent acrylic shells. This presentation of Art d'Ameublement (Pedra Oneal) (2023) at FOG will coincide with Tajima’s upcoming solo exhibition, titled Energetics, opening at Pace’s New York gallery on January 12, 2024.

Paintings by Mary Corse—who is based in Los Angeles and was born in Berkeley, California—and Huong Dodinh will also be on view. In her new Multiband composition, Corse uses glass microspheres to give the impression that her canvas is lit from within, refracting light from different angles depending on the viewer’s position. Meanwhile, a recent painting from Dodinh’s K.A. series, which she began in the early 2000s, speaks to the artist’s ability to imbue her delicate geometric abstractions with radiance and depth.

The booth will also spotlight A Way with Eyes (2023), a new retroreflective work by Hank Willis Thomas. As with Thomas’s other retroreflective works, A Way with Eyes exposes latent images depending on lighting and the perspective of the viewer. Seen from one perspective, these artworks present bold figurations, abstractions, and landscapes in saturated colors; seen from another, fragmented archival images Thomas has used in his artistic production over the last decade are revealed. As these elements converge and transform, they shed light on new layers of images, ideas, and meanings that are hidden in plain sight. Referencing the work of Henri Matisse in A Way with Eyes, Thomas continues his exploration of international, intergenerational histories of abstraction with this new composition.

In addition, a large-scale charcoal drawing by Robert Longo will be presented on Pace’s booth at the fair. In Untitled (Lanserhof Forest) (2023), which measures ten feet wide, the artist depicts a dense congregation of snow-coated trees with razor-sharp precision. Despite his highly detailed, hyper-realistic approach, Longo emphasizes the abstract qualities of this forest scene, drawing out the patterns and textures of the trees and snow.

Highlights will also include a new mixed media work by Alicja Kwade, who recently joined Pace’s program and often engages with scientific and philosophical subjects in her practice; a new hanging sculpture from Sonia Gomes’s Pendente series, featuring ornate abstractions rendered in fabric, rope, lace, beads, and buttons; and First Born (2023), an intimately scaled sculpture by Arlene Shechet, known for her idiosyncratic, biomorphic, boldly colored sculptures that situate seemingly disparate, incongruous materials and forms in lively conversations.

 

Featured Works

Huong Dodinh, K.A 264, 2022, Organic binders and natural pigments on canvas mounted on wood, 134 cm × 120 cm × 4 cm (52-3/4" × 47-1/4" × 1-9/16")

Huong Dodinh

b. 1945, Soc Trang, Vietnam

Hong Hao

b. 1965, Beijing, China

Hong Hao, Reflection No. 20, 2016, oil and molding material on canvas, 120 cm × 195 cm (47-1/4" × 76-3/4")
Hong Hao, Reflection 2021 No. 4, 2021, oil, molding material and gold foil on wood board, 40 cm × 30 cm (15-3/4" × 11-13/16")
Hong Hao, Reflection 2021 No. 1, 2021, oil, molding material and silver foil on wood board, 60 cm × 50 cm (23-5/8" × 19-11/16")

Alicja Kwade

b. 1979, Katowice, Poland

Alicja Kwade, Entropie (2184 hours), 2022, watch hands on cardboard, 59-3/8" × 59-3/8" × 2" (151 cm × 151 cm × 4.8 cm)

Robert Longo

b. 1953, Brooklyn, New York

Robert Longo, Untitled (Lanserhof Forest), 2023, Charcoal on mounted paper, 70" x 120" (177.8 x 304.8cm), image 77-1/8" x 127-1/8" x 3-9/16" (195.9 x 322.9 x 9cm), frame
Robert Longo, Study of Peonies/Horz, 2023, Ink and charcoal on vellum, 21" × 26-5/8" (53.3 cm × 67.6 cm), sheet 35-3/4" × 40" × 1-1/2" (90.8 cm × 101.6 cm × 3.8 cm), framed
Robert Longo, Study of Setting Sun Palm Tree, 2023, Ink and charcoal on vellum, 21" x 23 5/8" (53.3 cm x 60 cm) 35 5/8" x 37 x 1 1/2" (90.5 x 94 x 3.8cm), framed
Mika Tajima, Art d'Ameublement (Pedra Oneal), 2023, Spray enamel, thermoformed PETG, 72" × 54" (182.9 cm × 137.2 cm)

Mika Tajima

b. 1975, Los Angeles

 

All Works

Lynda Benglis,
Dice,
2023
2023, white tombasil bronze, 26-1/2" × 27-3/4" × 26-1/2" (67.3 cm × 70.5 cm × 67.3 cm)
Sold
Mary Corse,
Untitled (White Multiband with White Sides, Beveled),
2023
2023, glass microspheres in acrylic on canvas, 50" × 50" × 4-1/2" (127 cm × 127 cm × 11.4 cm)
Unavailable
Huong Dodinh,
K.A 264,
2022
2022, Organic binders and natural pigments on canvas mounted on wood, 134 cm × 120 cm × 4 cm (52-3/4" × 47-1/4" × 1-9/16")
Available
Torkwase Dyson,
Bird and Lava (Syncopation),
2023
2023, plywood, graphite, and hot-rolled steel, 7-3/4" × 21" × 5-1/2" (19.7 cm × 53.3 cm × 14 cm)
Unavailable
Torkwase Dyson,
2000 Black, 2000 Black #5 (Liquid a Place),
2022
2022, graphite on paper, 45" × 48" × 3" (114.3 cm × 121.9 cm × 7.6 cm) 46-1/2" × 49-13/16" × 1-15/16" (118.1 cm × 126.5 cm × 4.9 cm), framed
Unavailable
Latifa Echakhch,
Wind Wall Icon,
2023
2022, Acrylic and concrete on canvas, 200.2 cm × 150.2 cm × 2.6 cm (78-13/16" × 59-1/8" × 1")
Sold
Sonia Gomes,
Untitled (Pendente series) | Sem título (série Pendente)
2023, stitching and bindings, various fabrics and ropes, laces, beads and buttons, 102-3/8" × 10-5/8" × 9-7/8" (260.1 cm × 26.9 cm × 25.1 cm)
Available
Hong Hao,
Reflection 2021 No. 4
2021, oil, molding material and gold foil on wood board, 40 cm × 30 cm (15-3/4" × 11-13/16")
Sold