Pace Live

Arlene Shechet in Conversation with Stephanie Barron and David Salle

Saturday, Feb 28, 2026
10:30 AM – 12 PM
1201 South La Brea Avenue
Los Angeles

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Saturday, Feb 28, 2026
10:30 AM – 12 PM
1201 South La Brea Avenue
Los Angeles

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As part of the debut of her new sculpture Big Sister (2025), Arlene Shechet will be joined in conversation by artist David Salle and Stephanie Barron, Senior Curator and Department Head of Modern Art at LACMA, on Saturday, February 28 at Pace Los Angeles.

Big Sister, which will be on view in the gallery’s courtyard from February 11 to June 6, is the first outdoor sculpture Shechet is exhibiting since her critically acclaimed 2024 presentation Girl Group at Storm King Art Center in New York.

This event—presented by Pace Live and LACMA’s Modern and Contemporary Art Council—will run from 10:30 a.m. to 12 p.m., with doors opening at 10 a.m.

Arlene Shechet

Arlene Shechet is a sculptor known for her effortless combination of disparate elements, precarious and provisional arrangements, and boundary-collapsing visual paradoxes. With gravity-defying work that seems to tilt, contort, bend, and melt, Shechet’s sculptures appear to be set in motion while unearthing the expressive potential of material and forms and forcing us to sit with—and move around—its contradictions.

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Stephanie Barron

Stephanie Barron has organized many ground-breaking exhibitions at LACMA where she is the long time Senior Curator and Modern Art Department Head. Among these The Avant-Garde in Russia, 1910-1930: New Perspectives, German Expressionist Sculpture, “Degenerate Art”: The Fate of the Avant-Garde in Nazi Germany, Exiles + Émigrés: The Flight of European Artists from Hitler, and New Objectivity: Modern German Art in the Weimar Republic. She has organized exhibitions devoted to the work of Calder, Chagall, Gehry, Hockney, Klimt, Magritte, McLaughlin, and Ken Price. She has been decorated by the German government, and received the Wormland, Kirchner, and Runge Prizes. Her exhibitions and publications have five times been voted the best in the U.S. by AICA, and two of her catalogues have received the Alfred H. Barr Award. Barron is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a longtime member of the Art Advisory Panel of the IRS, trustee of the John Baldessari Family Foundation, and a board member of The Industry LA.

David Salle

David Salle is an artist and writer living in Brooklyn. Solo exhibitions of his work have been held at museums and galleries worldwide, and his paintings are in the collections of numerous museums here and abroad. He was recently the subject of a career survey at the Brant Foundation, Greenwich, CT.  Salle is a regular contributor to the New York Review of Books and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His collection of essays, HOW TO SEE: Looking, Talking, and Thinking about Art, was published by W.W. Norton in 2016. An exhibition of recent paintings, Tree of Life, This Time with Feeling, is currently on view through March 9th at Thaddaeus Ropac Gallery, Paris. He will release a major NFT project, Party of Animals, in February 2023. 