Frieze New York

On its booth, Pace will show works by Lin that call attention to natural sites that have seen or will see significant environmental change. A new silver sculpture by the artist, however, celebrates the exception to this trend. Titled Silver Yellowstone (2026), this work is inspired by the only untouched river in the continuous United States.

Further details about the artists’ recent and forthcoming public projects follow below:

Officially opening this spring, Lin’s large-scale artwork A Parallel Nature—the centerpiece of a new public plaza on Madison Avenue in Midtown Manhattan—is inspired by the natural bedrock of the city and the rockfaces of Central Park. Commissioned by JPMorganChase, A Parallel Nature comprises two monumental sculptural granite walls based off a scan of an actual rock ledge from Central Park, bringing the natural world to the heart of New York City. Lin has also been commissioned to create two major stone sculptural fountains that will anchor the Ann Dunham Water Garden at the Obama Presidential Center in Chicago. Titled, Seeing Through the Universe, this work will be located near the north entrance of the Center, which opens June 19.

Villareal recently unveiled  Celestial Passage, a permanent, site-specific artwork commissioned by JPMorganChase for the crown of its new global headquarters at 270 Park Avenue in Midtown Manhattan. Using custom-built software and 1.5 million programmable LEDs, Villareal has sculpted harmonious swaths of light that play across the exterior of the 60-story skyscraper in symphonic movements. In San Francisco, the artist’s The Bay Lights—which debuted in 2013 and is one of the largest public artworks in the world, spanning 1.8 miles of the Bay Bridge—has returned to the city for an additional ten years following the installation of a newly designed and fabricated lighting system.

This will be the third consecutive year that Pace presents a two-artist booth at Frieze New York. Conceived by the gallery’s President Samanthe Rubell, these pairings bring artists into unexpected dialogues and encourage new ways of seeing and experiencing their work.

Samanthe Rubell, President of Pace Gallery, says:

“We’re very excited to show works by Maya and Leo at Frieze New York during this year of incredible public projects by them both. Pace has a long history of supporting artists’ commissions in New York and beyond, including works by Louise Nevelson, Claes Oldenburg, and Jean Dubuffet. The new, large-scale works by Maya and Leo will be enduring gifts to the city, bringing a renewed energy to the spaces we move through every day.”