Arlene Shechet Skirts Past Feb 28 – Aug 14, 2020 New York Rich in idiosyncrasies, Arlene Shechet’s latest works combine disparate mediums, from ceramics to wood and metalwork, with playfully ambiguous titles that prompt endless associations. Exhibition DetailsArlene ShechetSkirtsFeb 28 – Aug 14, 2020 Gallery540 West 25th StreetSecond FloorNew YorkAbove: Installation view, Arlene Shechet: Skirts, February 28 – April 25, 2020, Pace Gallery, New York © Arlene Shechet PressPress Release Connect (opens in a new window) @arleneshechet (opens in a new window) @pacegallery Installation view, Arlene Shechet: Skirts, February 28 – April 25, 2020, Pace Gallery, New York © Arlene Shechet Pace Gallery is pleased to present Skirts, its first solo exhibition of works by Arlene Shechet, from February 28 through August 14. Running concurrently with the Whitney Museum’s exhibition Making Knowing, which also features works by Shechet, Skirts brings together more than a dozen of the artist’s most recent sculptures, including large-scale works and a monumental outdoor piece to be displayed on the second-floor galleries and terrace of Pace’s new flagship building at 540 West 25th street.Utilizing a title that is both a noun and a verb, Skirts is a testament to the artist’s fluid and unformulaic process. Though her works appear effortless and forgiving of imperfections, they are the belabored products of an intuitive and technically fastidious approach, involving casting, painting, firing, carving, stacking, undoing and redoing with no predetermined endpoint. Her expansive approach to sculpture and materials is reminiscent of artists Shechet admires, such as Sophie Taeuber-Arp and Sonia Delaunay, whose work transcends the divisions of painting and sculpture and encompassed innovative multimedia practices, distinguishing their work from that of their male peers. Shechet’s title, Skirts, also reclaims misogynist slang. As if to counter this term’s reduction of women to passive things, Shechet’s unruly, polymorphous sculptures suggest that objects themselves are active and subversive. Installation view, Arlene Shechet: Skirts, February 28 – April 25, 2020, Pace Gallery, New York © Arlene Shechet 1/5 Installation view, Arlene Shechet: Skirts, February 28 – April 25, 2020, Pace Gallery, New York © Arlene Shechet 2/5 Installation view, Arlene Shechet: Skirts, February 28 – April 25, 2020, Pace Gallery, New York © Arlene Shechet 3/5 Installation view, Arlene Shechet: Skirts, February 28 – April 25, 2020, Pace Gallery, New York © Arlene Shechet 4/5 Installation view, Arlene Shechet: Skirts, February 28 – April 25, 2020, Pace Gallery, New York © Arlene Shechet 5/5 Carousel slide 0 Carousel slide 1 Carousel slide 2 Carousel slide 3 Carousel slide 4 Arlene ShechetArlene Shechet is a multidisciplinary sculptor living and working in New York City and the Hudson Valley. Her work is held in many distinguished public collections, including the Brooklyn Museum, New York; CCS Bard Hessel Museum, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York; The Centre Pompidou, Paris; The Jewish Museum, New York; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; and Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, among others.Learn More