LYNDA_BENGLIS_EH_mailer (2).gif Lynda Benglis and Arlene Shechet Past Aug 18 – Aug 28, 2022 East Hampton Exhibition Details:Lynda BenglisArlene ShechetAug 18 – 28, 2022Gallery:68 Park PlaceEast HamptonConnect: (opens in a new window) @arleneshechet (opens in a new window) @pacegalleryAbove:1. Lynda Benglis, Hooker, 2022 © Lynda Benglis / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York;2. Arlene Shechet, Deep Blooze: Identify #13, 2004 © Arlene Shechet Pace is pleased to present an exhibition of works by Lynda Benglis and Arlene Shechet. This two-person presentation will situate recent bronze sculptures by Benglis in conversation with cast paper drawings by Shechet, conjuring new exchanges among the artists’ works.Benglis’s three bronze sculptures in the exhibition belong to a lexicon of sculptural forms that the artist has been developing, refining, and reworking over the course of her career. These works began as small ceramic sculptures that Benglis refers to as “Elephant Necklaces.” The artist transposes her formal experimentations with clay into her undulating, luminous, and reflective bronze sculptures that register the presence and pressure of her fingers at the moment of contact with the original material. Domestically scaled, these bronze works evoke waves, eddies, and whorls frozen in time, building on the visual motifs from Benglis’s 2021 solo exhibition with Pace in New York. Concurrently with this show at Pace in East Hampton, Benglis is presenting a major solo exhibition at the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas, on view through September 18.Shechet will present ten cast paper drawings made from abaca—a natural leaf fiber—in the East Hampton exhibition. Made at Dieu Donne Papermill in New York, the unique drawings in the show date between 1997 and 2004, and they have been rendered in two different sizes: 18” x 18” and 24” x 24”. Exploring Buddhist notions of impermanence as both a subject and a model for her process, Shechet has incorporated Buddhist iconography into these works. Creating stencils and templates to render Buddhist stupas as flat architectural plans, the artist applies pigmented paper pulp using the pochoir technique to draw out and capture the layered images. Color bleeds in unpredictable flurries in the resulting compositions, through which Shechet aims to deconstruct three-dimensional stupas by translating their floor plans back into the two-dimensional mandala symbol that informed their architectural layouts. The artist’s solo exhibition at T Space in Rhinebeck, New York, continues through August 28. Read More Featured Works Lynda Benglis, B-Witched, 2022, Everdur bronze (golden), 35-3/4" × 19" × 16-1/2" (90.8 cm × 48.3 cm × 41.9 cm) Learn More Close modal Lynda Benglis B-Witched 2022 Everdur bronze (golden) 35-3/4" × 19" × 16-1/2" (90.8 cm × 48.3 cm × 41.9 cm) Inquire How can we reach you? First Name* Last Name* Email* Phone Inquiry Message Have you purchased from Pace before?* Yes No Submit Inquiry Or go back Lynda Benglis, Hooker, 2022, White Tombasil bronze, 23-1/4" × 19-1/2" × 23-1/2" (59.1 cm × 49.5 cm × 59.7 cm) Learn More Close modal Lynda Benglis Hooker 2022 White Tombasil bronze 23-1/4" × 19-1/2" × 23-1/2" (59.1 cm × 49.5 cm × 59.7 cm) Inquire How can we reach you? First Name* Last Name* Email* Phone Inquiry Message Have you purchased from Pace before?* Yes No Submit Inquiry Or go back Arlene Shechet, Mind Field: Foaming Tracks #24, 1997, Cast paper drawings made from abaca, 24" × 24" (61 cm × 61 cm) Learn More Close modal Arlene Shechet Mind Field: Foaming Tracks #24 1997 Cast paper drawings made from abaca 24" × 24" (61 cm × 61 cm) Inquire How can we reach you? First Name* Last Name* Email* Phone Inquiry Message Have you purchased from Pace before?* Yes No Submit Inquiry Or go back Arlene Shechet, Deep Blooze: Identify #13, 2004, Cast paper drawings made from abaca, 18" × 18" (45.7 cm × 45.7 cm) Learn More Close modal Arlene Shechet Deep Blooze: Identify #13 2004 Cast paper drawings made from abaca 18" × 18" (45.7 cm × 45.7 cm) Inquire How can we reach you? First Name* Last Name* Email* Phone Inquiry Message Have you purchased from Pace before?* Yes No Submit Inquiry Or go back Arlene Shechet, Deep Blooze: Destination, 2004, Cast paper drawings made from abaca, 18" × 18" (45.7 cm × 45.7 cm) Learn More Close modal Arlene Shechet Deep Blooze: Destination 2004 Cast paper drawings made from abaca 18" × 18" (45.7 cm × 45.7 cm) Inquire How can we reach you? First Name* Last Name* Email* Phone Inquiry Message Have you purchased from Pace before?* Yes No Submit Inquiry Or go back Arlene Shechet, Deep Blooze: Bright Spot, 2004, Cast paper drawings made from abaca, 18" × 18" (45.7 cm × 45.7 cm) Learn More Close modal Arlene Shechet Deep Blooze: Bright Spot 2004 Cast paper drawings made from abaca 18" × 18" (45.7 cm × 45.7 cm) Inquire How can we reach you? First Name* Last Name* Email* Phone Inquiry Message Have you purchased from Pace before?* Yes No Submit Inquiry Or go back About the Artists Lynda BenglisSince the 1960s, Lynda Benglis has been celebrated for her free, ecstatic forms, which are simultaneously playful and visceral, organic and, abstract. The embrace of flowing forms, color, and sensual surfaces plays a large part in Benglis’s continuous investigation of the proprioceptive, sensory experiences of making and viewing her sculptures.Learn More Arlene ShechetArlene Shechet is a multidisciplinary sculptor living and working in New York City and the Hudson Valley. A major, critically acclaimed survey of her work, All At Once, which the New York Times called “some of the most imaginative American sculpture of the past 20 years, and some of the most radically personal,” was on view at The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, in 2015 with an accompanying monograph.Learn More Journal View All Press Lynda Benglis' Loewe Collaboration Featured in Frieze Jun 28, 2023 Films Alanna Heiss on "Lynda Benglis: An Alphabet of Forms" May 18, 2021 Museum Exhibitions Lynda Benglis at the National Gallery of Art Feb 24, 2020 Essays Loie Hollowell on Lynda Benglis Nov 26, 2019 Museum Exhibitions Arlene Shechet at Storm King Jan 09, 2024 News Arlene Shechet Inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters May 24, 2023 Films Arlene Shechet and Laura Hoptman in Conversation Jan 26, 2023 Films Explore “STUFF” with Arlene Shechet Aug 01, 2022 Overview Featured Works About the Artists Journal