Composite of Robert Mangold and Arlene Shechet

Frieze New York

Robert Mangold and Arlene Shechet

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May 1 – May 5, 2024
New York
 
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Frieze New York
The Shed
Booth B11
May 1 – 5, 2024

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Above: Robert Mangold, Double Pentagon Oxide 4, 2024 © Robert Mangold / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York; Arlene Shechet, Better Half, 2024 © Arlene Shechet

Pace is pleased to announce details of its presentation for the 2024 edition of Frieze New York, which runs from May 1 to 5 at The Shed.

The gallery’s booth (#B11) will showcase the unexpected affinities between two contemporary abstractionists: Robert Mangold and Arlene Shechet. Exhibited together at the fair, Mangold’s paintings and Shechet’s sculptures speak to the expressive power of geometry, line, color, and space in both two- and three-dimensional mediums.

This presentation at Frieze New York will coincide with the opening of Arlene Shechet: Girl Group—in which the artist is debuting six new large-scale commissions—at Storm King Art Center in New York on May 4.

The gallery’s booth will bring together new paintings by Mangold and new sculptures by Shechet. Combining, dividing, layering, and twinning are present in the works of both artists, who explore questions of symmetry and asymmetry, interiority and exteriority, wholeness and fragmentation, and opening up and collapsing inward on their own aesthetic and material terms. Mangold’s and Shechet’s varied experiments in abstraction will be on view in this special presentation.

The shaped canvases by Mangold on view at the fair reflect his deep and enduring interest in the fundamental elements of composition which have guided his practice for more than 60 years. In these recent works, shape has become the most salient element of the artist’s composition. The integral relationship of shape and drawing, once essential to Mangold’s practice, has been foregone, with the drawing no longer helping to determine the shape. The shapes of the canvases, all variations on a five-sided polygon, reinforce the objecthood of the paintings, while vertical hand-drawn lines that appear in several works emphasize the painting’s surface. In contrast to the drawing, the push and pull of the canvas shapes themselves seem to extend Mangold’s paintings into illusory dimensional planes.

Shechet’s six new sculptures at Frieze New York, including five small-scale works and one freestanding composition, combine painted and dyed hardwood, steel, glazed ceramic, and gold leaf elements. In these geometric constructions, as with her other bodies of work, the artist investigates the visual paradoxes and contradictions that arise during her improvisational, intuitive—yet highly technical—process. Uniting seemingly disparate forms and materials, Shechet is guided by a general impulse, engaging in a spirited exchange with her works as she wills them to life. The colors, steel linear forms, and vocabulary of geometry in the sculptures she will show on Pace’s booth at the fair are in dialogue with Mangold’s paintings, and vice versa. Evoking different interpersonal and familial relationships in their titles—which include Live In Lover, Brother, Better Half, and Seventh Son—Shechet’s new works encourage open ended interpretations by viewers, who bring their own associations and experiences to their readings of each sculpture.

Exhibitions by Adam Pendleton, Tara Donovan, and Huong Dodinh will open at Pace’s 540 West 25th Street gallery in New York on May 3, coinciding with Frieze New York. On May 10, an exhibition of a large-scale digital artwork by teamLab will open at Pace’s 510 West 25th Street space, marking the collective’s first solo show in New York in ten years.

 

Featured Works

Robert Mangold, Double Pentagon Oxide 1, 2023, acrylic on canvas, 40" × 56-1/2" × 1-9/16" (101.6 cm × 143.5 cm × 4 cm)
Arlene Shechet, Live-In Lover, 2024, painted and dyed hardwood, steel, glazed ceramic, and gold leaf, 41" × 24" × 23" (104.1 cm × 61 cm × 58.4 cm)
Live-In Lover by Arlene Shechet

Arlene Shechet, Live-In Lover, 2024, painted and dyed hardwood, steel, glazed ceramic, and gold leaf, 41" × 24" (104.1 cm × 61 cm)

Arlene Shechet, Brother, 2024, painted and dyed hardwood, steel, and glazed ceramic, 26" × 21" × 19" (66 cm × 53.3 cm × 48.3 cm)
Robert Mangold, Yellow Oxide Structure with Line, 2024, acrylic on canvas, 38-1/2" × 43" × 1-5/8" (97.8 cm × 109.2 cm × 4.1 cm)
Robert Mangold, Double Pentagon Oxide 2, 2023, acrylic on canvas, 36-1/4" × 57-1/2" × 1-9/16" (92.1 cm × 146.1 cm × 4 cm)
Double Pentagon Oxide 2 by Robert Mangold

Robert Mangold, Yellow Oxide Structure with Line, 2024, acrylic on canvas, 38-1/2" × 43" × 1-5/8" (97.8 cm × 109.2 cm × 4.1 cm)

Arlene Shechet, Better Half, 2024, painted and dyed hardwood, steel, glazed ceramic, and gold leaf, 21-1/2" × 19" × 17" (54.6 cm × 48.3 cm × 43.2 cm)
Robert Mangold, Double Pentagon Oxide 4, 2024, acrylic on canvas, 40" × 56" × 1-9/16" (101.6 cm × 142.2 cm × 4 cm)
Arlene Shechet, Seventh Son, 2024, painted and dyed hardwood, steel, and glazed ceramic, 26" × 19" × 15" (66 cm × 48.3 cm × 38.1 cm)
Arlene Shechet, Sweetheart, 2024, painted and dyed hardwood, steel, and glazed ceramic, 24-1/2" × 13" × 13" (62.2 cm × 33 cm × 33 cm)
Robert Mangold, Pentagon with Line, 2023, acrylic on canvas, 64" × 76" × 1-9/16" (162.6 cm × 193 cm × 4 cm)
Robert Mangold, Double Pentagon Oxide 3, 2023, acrylic on canvas, 40" × 56-1/4" × 1-9/16" (101.6 cm × 142.9 cm × 4 cm)
Arlene Shechet, Niece, 2024, painted and dyed hardwood, powder-coated steel, and glazed ceramic, 32" × 18" × 15-1/2" (81.3 cm × 45.7 cm × 39.4 cm)
Niece by Arlene Shechet

Arlene Shechet, Niece, 2024, painted and dyed hardwood, powder-coated steel, and glazed ceramic, 21" × 15" (53.3 cm × 38.1 cm)

 

About the Artists

To inquire about works by Arlene Shechet and Robert Mangold, please email us at inquiries@pacegallery.com.