Untitled by Joan Jonas

Joan Jonas

Drawings, Curated by Adam Pendleton

Upcoming
May 17 – Jun 28, 2025
Tokyo
 
Pace is pleased to present an exhibition of works on paper by American artist Joan Jonas at its Tokyo gallery from May 17 to June 28.

Curated by artist Adam Pendleton, Jonas’s longtime friend and frequent collaborator, this presentation will shed light on the relationship between drawing and performance in Jonas’s practice and celebrate her enduring connection to Japan, where she first began traveling in the 1970s. It will bring together some 80 works on paper—selected by Pendleton—created between the 1970s and 2010s. Holistically, the exhibition will situate Jonas’s drawings from multiple bodies of work within the historical lineage of Abstract Expressionism. Further details will be announced in the coming weeks.

 
Portrait of Joan Jonas

Photograph by: Maximilian Geuter / Courtesy Joan Jonas Studio

Joan Jonas

Joan Jonas is a world-renowned artist whose work encompasses a wide range of media including video, performance, installation, sound, text, and sculpture. Jonas' experiments and productions in the late 1960s and early 1970s continue to be crucial to the development of many contemporary art genres, from performance and video to conceptual art and theatre. Since 1968, her practice has explored ways of seeing, the rhythms of rituals, and the authority of objects and gestures.

Portrait of Adam Pendleton

Image Credit: Matthew Septimus

Adam Pendleton

Adam Pendleton is a central figure among a cross-generational group of painters redefining the medium as it relates to process and abstraction. In 2024, he was honored with the Rosenthal Family Foundation Award for Painting from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His visually distinct and conceptually rigorous paintings begin on paper with drips, splatters, sprays, geometric shapes, words and phrases, and inky fragments reminiscent of broken letters. These compositions are photographed and then layered using a screen-printing process, purposefully blurring the distinctions between the acts of painting, drawing, and photography. An encounter with any single work, typically composed of two colors on black gessoed grounds, brings forth the immediacy of gestural abstraction, the considered execution of minimal and conceptual art, and the playfulness of concrete poetry.

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EXHIBITION DETAILS

Joan Jonas
Drawings
Curated by Adam Pendleton
May 17 – Jun 28, 2025

Above: Joan Jonas, Untitled, stick and ink on paper, 11" × 8¼” © 2025 Joan Jonas / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
GALLERY

1F; Azabudai Hills Garden Plaza-A
5-8-1 Toranomon, Minato-ku
Tokyo

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