Frieze Los Angeles

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Feb 20 – Feb 23, 2025

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Frieze Los Angeles
Santa Monica Airport
Booth D09
February 20 – 23, 2025

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Above: Maysha Mohamedi, Smooch Test, 2025 © Maysha Mohamedi

Pace is pleased to announce details of its presentation at this year's edition of Frieze Los Angeles.

The gallery’s booth will spotlight works by artists across its program, including Gideon Appah, Mary Corse, Tara Donovan, Torkwase Dyson, David Hockney, Virginia Jaramillo, Glenn Kaino, Maysha Mohamedi, Arlene Shechet, Mika Tajima, and James Turrell.

This edition of the fair will coincide with The Monster, a group exhibition curated by artist Robert Nava, on view at Pace’s Los Angeles gallery from February 1 to March 22.

Highlights on Pace’s booth at Frieze Los Angeles include:

A Love Song, a 2022 painting by Gideon Appah, who is known for his jewel-toned figurations that explore memories and dreams

A 2016 urethane sculpture by Peter Alexander, a major figure in the Light and Space movement who lived and worked in Southern California his entire life

A new Diamond painting by Los Angeles-based artist Mary Corse, who will present a solo exhibition with Pace in LA this summer

New works on paper by Tara Donovan, who will present her first solo exhibition in Tokyo at Pace's Azabudai Hills gallery in May

Departure (Bird and Lava) (2024), a painting by Torkwase Dyson, who presented a solo exhibition at Pace Los Angeles in fall 2024 as part of the Getty’s PST ART: Art & Science Collide Participating Gallery Program and will create the conceptual design for the spring 2025 Costume Institute exhibition Superfine: Tailoring Black Style at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York

A nearly eight-foot-tall sculpture by the duo Elmgreen & Dragset, who will have a solo show at Pace Los Angeles in fall 2025

Yosemite II, October 5th 2011 (2011), a large-scale iPad drawing by David Hockney, who will present a major exhibition at the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris this year

A 1979 canvas by Virginia Jaramillo, who began her career in Los Angeles in the late 1950s and early 1960s, studying at the city’s Otis College of Art and Design and showing her work in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s annual exhibition for three consecutive years

Two new mixed media sculptures by Los Angeles-based artist Glenn Kaino, who co-curated the Hammer Museum’s recent Pacific Standard Time exhibition Breath(e): Toward Climate and Social Justice and will unveil a new public commission for the city’s 6th Street Park in 2026

A large-scale charcoal drawing, Untitled (White Wing) (2023), by Robert Longo, who is presenting a solo exhibition at the Milwaukee Art Museum through February 23

A new, never-before-seen painting specially created for this presentation by LA-based artist Maysha Mohamedi

A new sculpture by Arlene Shechet incorporating glazed ceramic, painted and dyed hardwood, and steel, along with two new wall-mounted ceramics by the artist

Among the Flowers (2023), a large-scale wall-mounted sculpture, comprising 89 individual elements, by Kiki Smith

A 2024 painting from Mika Tajima’s celebrated Art d'Ameublement series, as well as a rose quartz sculpture from her Pranayama body of work—Tajima’s work figured in the Hammer Museum’s recent Pacific Standard Time exhibition Breath(e): Toward Climate and Social Justice

A 2021 installation by James Turrell, who was born in Los Angeles and has dedicated his career to investigating the materiality of light—a solo exhibition by the artist will be presented at Pace’s Seoul gallery this spring

Featured Works

Maysha Mohamedi

b. 1980, Los Angeles

Mary Corse

b. 1945, Berkeley, California

Peter Alexander

b. 1939, Los Angeles
d. 2020, Santa Monica

Glenn Kaino

b. 1972, Los Angeles

David Hockney

b. 1937, Bradford, England

Mika Tajima

b. 1975, Los Angeles

James Turrell

b. 1943, Los Angeles

James Turrell’s iconic Rectangular Glass works explore light as a sculptural medium, manipulating perception through subtle shifts in color. In Yus-Asaph (2021), Turrell precisely choreographs the diffusion of light across an etched glass surface, creating the illusion of depth and an ephemeral sense of space that appears to expand beyond its physical boundaries. Rather than treating light as a tool for illuminating objects, Turrell makes it the medium itself; as the artist explains, “I don’t want to have light lighting things, I want to make a thing-ness of light.” [1] In Yus-Asaph, this philosophy is evident in the gradual transition of color and luminosity, which shifts almost imperceptibly over a runtime that resists the quick consumption of imagery typical in contemporary visual culture. Instead, the work demands sustained engagement, inviting the viewer into an almost meditative state where perception itself becomes the subject. By harnessing the physical and psychological properties of light, Yus-Asaph challenges traditional notions of form, materiality, and space. Like much of Turrell’s work, it exists at the intersection of art, science, and spirituality, offering an immersive experience that alters the way we see and understand light as both a tangible and transcendent force.

1. James Turrell quoted in Christine Y. Kim, “Behind-the-Eyes Seeing,” in James Turrell: A Retrospective (Los Angeles and Munich: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; DelMonico Books/Prestel Verlag, 2013), 264.

Robert Longo

b. 1953, Brooklyn, New York

Kiki Smith

American, b. 1954, Nuremberg, Germany

Arlene Shechet

b. 1951, New York

Gideon Appah

b. 1987, Accra, Ghana

Tara Donovan

b. 1969, Flushing, New York

For her new series of monoprints, Tara Donovan collaborated with Farrington Press and Observatory in Joshua Tree, California, to produce a series of unique works on paper that further excavate the materiality she explored in her recent Stratagems series, in which she used the reflective and prismatic optical nuances of compact discs to create opulent free-standing architectural sculptures. In these new works, Donovan scrapes the surface of a disc with a razor, amassing the random color spectrum of foil shavings on the surface of black-inked paper to produce a quasi-cosmological record referencing everything from the distribution patterns of particle physics to the night sky. Each resulting print becomes an improvisational structural system that is embedded on the paper as a residual atlas of Donovan’s intentional action with the material.

Torkwase Dyson

b. 1973, Chicago, Illinois

Virginia Jaramillo

b. 1939, El Paso, Texas

On View in LA

On View

The Monster

Curated by Robert Nava

Feb 1 – Mar 22, 2025

Los Angeles

News

Supporting Los Angeles Wildfire Relief Efforts

In response to the devastating wildfires in Los Angeles, Pace has made a contribution to the Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation in support of their efforts to assist artists. The gallery has also joined several peers in contributing to the LA Arts Community Fire Relief Fund, a coalition of arts organizations and philanthropists led by the Getty and providing emergency relief for artists and arts workers impacted by the fires. In addition to these contributions, Pace has launched an internal Fire Relief Subcommittee, committing funds towards grassroots in-gallery programming covering both urgent efforts in the immediate-term and longer- term programs to provide for the community local to the LA gallery.

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To inquire about any of the artists or works featured here, please email us at inquiries@pacegallery.com.

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