Cover of A Retrospective by James Turrell
Pace Publishing

Publishing Light and Space Artists

Published Friday, May 16, 2025

Explore the captivating histories of California’s Light and Space movement through an array of titles showcasing Mary Corse’s experiments with refractive materials, Robert Irwin’s collaborations with photographer Philipp Scholz Rittermann, and James Turrell’s investigations into the sensorial experience of space, color, and perception.
Cover of Mary Corse

Mary Corse

2017

Text by Alex Bacon, Suzanne Hudson

Hardcover
12 ¼ × 9 ¾ inches
166 pages

Produced in conjunction with her solo exhibition at Kayne Griffin Corcoran in 2017, which included a selection of light works and shaped canvas paintings covered in refractive materials, this is the first major catalog on Mary Corse. With an essay by Suzanne Hudson and an interview by Alex Bacon, this book initiates a critical reappraisal of the artist, whose sixty-year career has been an ongoing investigation of materiality, abstraction, and perception.

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Cover of Projects & Exhibitions 2015–2016 by Robert Irwin

Robert Irwin
Projects & Exhibitions 2015–2016

2018

Hardcover
12 × 8 ¾ inches
108 pages

In 2010, Robert Irwin began to work with photographer Philipp Scholz Rittermann to achieve accurate colors, presence, and feel when capturing his installations. This book is a result of that collaboration. With glossy paper and ten foldouts, Robert Irwin: Projects & Exhibitions 2015–2016 provides the reader a vibrant and in-depth view of two very productive years for the artist, which included projects and installations at a variety of galleries and institutions, including Pace Gallery.

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James Turrell
A Retrospective

2023

Text by Michael Govan, Christine Y. Kim, Gary Tinterow, Alison De Lima Greene, E.C. Krupp, Florian Holzherr

Hardcover
304 pages

Published in conjunction with a major retrospective, this comprehensive volume illuminates the origins and motivations of James Turrell’s incredibly diverse and exciting body of work—from his Mendota studio days to his monumental work-in-progress Roden Crater. Enhanced by thoughtful essays and an illuminating interview with the artist, this monograph explores every aspect of Turrell’s career to date—from his early geometric light projections, prints, and drawings, through his installations exploring sensory deprivation and seemingly unmodulated fields of colored light, to recent two-dimensional experiments with holograms. It also features an in-depth look at Roden Crater, a site-specific intervention into the landscape near Flagstaff, Arizona, which will be presented through models, plans, photographs, and drawings.

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Ad Reinhardt: Color Out of Darkness, Curated by James Turrell Cover

Ad Reinhardt
Color Out of Darkness, Curated by James Turrell

2023

Text by Lucy Lippard, Lynne Tillman, Alteronce Gumby, Torkwase Dyson, Phong Bui, Dorothea Lasky, Leopoldine Core, Rebecca Oppenheimer, Brian Greene, David Grubbs, Wayne Koestenbaum. Foreword by James Turrell. Introduction by Marc Glimcher.

Hardcover
120 pages

This book brings together the work of abstract painter Ad Reinhardt and key figure of the Light and Space movement, James Turrell. Turrell first encountered Reinhardt at a lecture at Pasadena Museum in 1962, and paid homage to the influence Reinhardt had on his own work through the exhibition Ad Reinhardt: Color Out of Darkness, held at Pace Gallery in early 2022. This book documents this immersive exhibition through numerous installation photographs taken under different lighting conditions, accompanied by prose and poetry from a wide range of contributors, written in direct response to the visual experience of seeing the exhibition.

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