Pace Publishing

Huong Dodinh

Transcendence

Text by Catherine David, Khoa Dodinh, Marc Glimcher. Interview by Olivia Sand.

Over the last six decades, Huong Dodinh has devoted her practice to three central tenets—light, density, and transparency—through which she explores the fluidity of line, form, and negative space.Published on the occasion of the artist’s first- ever solo presentation in the United States, Huong Dodinh: Transcendencebrings together paintings and works on paper she has created over the course of her career, from the 1960s to the present day.

Kylie Manning

Text by Ted Barrow

Showcasing recent paintings alongside the five large-scale canvases and related drawings on view in Sea Change, this volume makes extensive use of details to allow the reader to inhabit Manning’s vibrant, mercurial world.

Thomas Nozkowski

Everything in the World

Text by Martin Clark, Oliver Shultz

Published on the occasion of the artist's exhibition at Pace Gallery in New York, Thomas Nozkowski: Everything in the World centers on a formative period of the artist’s career during which he set out specific aesthetic terms for his practice.

Chuck Close

Red, Yellow, and Blue
The Last Paintings

Text by Phong Bui, Carter Ratcliff, Barbara Knappmeyer. Conversation with Cindy Sherman.

Published on the occasion of Pace Gallery's first exhibition of his work since the artist's death in 2021, Chuck Close: Red, Yellow, and Blue—The Last Paintings spotlights Close's final body of paintings, which employ a palette of only three colors.

John Wesley

WesleyWorld: Works on Paper and Objects 1961-2004

Text by Richard Shiff

Featuring a commissioned essay by art historian Richard Shiff, the digital catalogue includes photography of each work on paper and painted object in the gallery’s show—its first-ever presentation dedicated to Wesley.

Ad Reinhardt

Color Out of Darkness, Curated by James Turrell

Contributions by 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. Essay by Lucy Lippard.

A critically acclaimed encounter between two American masters of threshold perception and color nuance. This book brings together the work of abstract painter Ad Reinhardt and key figure of the Light and Space movement, James Turrell.

Picasso

14 Sketchbooks

Published in collaboration with the Fundación Almine y Bernard Ruiz-Picasso, Madrid (FABA), this collection of Picasso’s sketchbooks offers a unique and intimate view of the ways in which the artist lived and worked.

Sam Gilliam

The Last Five Years

Text by Lowery Stokes Sims

Sam Gilliam: The Last Five Years presents a suite of works created by the late artist in the final years of his life, exhibited by Pace Gallery in New York and David Kordansky Gallery in Los Angeles.

Alexander Calder and Richard Tuttle

Calder/Tuttle: Tentative

Text by Alexander S. C. Rower, Richard Tuttle

Co-published with David Kordansky Gallery, Calder/Tuttle:Tentative unites the distinct artistic vocabularies of Richard Tuttle and Alexander Calder in a singular volume, offering a fresh perspective on the legacy of modernist abstraction.

Beatriz Milhazes

Mistura Sagrada

Text by Mark Godfrey. Conversation with Beatriz Milhazes and Polly Apfelbaum.

Spotlighting the immersive mobile sculpture and ten large-scale paintings in Mistura Sagrada—Beatriz Milhazes’s first solo exhibition with Pace, presented in New York in 2022—this book sheds light on the artist’s highly generative practice.

Living With Ghosts

A Reader

Texts by Achille Mbembe, Jacques Derrida, C.L.R. James, Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni, KJ Abudu, Emmanuel Iduma, Walter D. Mignolo, Avery F. Gordon, Adjoa Armah, Joshua Segun-Lean. Conversation with Bouchra Khalili and KJ Abudu

Featuring republished texts by seminal theorists of the 20th and 21st centuries, as well as newly commissioned essays by some of today’s leading artists and writers, Living With Ghosts: A Reader is an important, thought-provoking work published to coincide with the exhibition guest curated by KJ Abudu at Pace in London.

Adrian Ghenie

The Hooligans

Texts by Masha Tupitsyn, Apsara DiQuinzio

Published on the occasion of the artist's first solo show in Asia, this special edition of Adrian Ghenie: The Hooligans is Pace Publishing’s first Korean language title.

Mika Tajima

Texts by Mika Yoshitake, T’ai Smith, edited by Eugenia Bell

Co-published by Inventory Press and Kayne Griffin, this book takes a deep dive into Mika Tajima’s sculptures, paintings, videos, and new media installations from 2003–2021.

Wifredo Lam

The Imagination at Work

Texts by Alexander Alberro, Kaira M. Cabañas, Samantha A. Noël, Alexandra Chang

Produced on the occasion of Pace’s New York survey Wifredo Lam: The Imagination at Work, this book examines the formal and thematic complexities of Wifredo Lam’s paintings and sculptures.

Qiu Xiaofei

Divination

Texts by Qiu Xiaofei, Travis Jeppesen, Yan Chi

Produced on the occasion of Qiu Xiaofei’s 2021 solo exhibition Divination with Pace in New York, this publication focuses on the rich historical, political, cultural, and spiritual allusions in the artist’s paintings.

Torkwase Dyson

Liquid A Place
Limited-edition Dubplate

To mark Torkwase Dyson’s collaborative Pace Live performances and multimedia installation Liquid A Place, which were presented at the gallery’s new London space this fall, Pace Publishing produced a limited-edition double A-side dubplate.

Thomas Nozkowski

The Last Paintings

Complementing Pace’s exhibition Thomas Nozkowski: The Last Paintings, this book includes an essay by art historian Marc Mayer and moving remembrances of the artist by Jennifer Gross, Joseph Masheck, Catherine Murphy, Martin Puryear, Peter Schjeldahl, Robert Storr, and Karen Wilkin, all of whom were part of his circle.

Grids

Format and Image in 20th Century Art

Made to accompany a 1979 group exhibition on view at Pace in New York and The Akron Art Institute, Ohio, this catalogue brings together historic works by Josef Albers, Carl Andre, Robert Irwin, Lee Krasner, Ellsworth Kelly, Eva Hesse, Sol LeWitt, Agnes Martin, Ad Reinhardt, Louise Nevelson, and Frank Stella, among others. The book includes a text by Rosalind Krauss, while its design alludes to theme of the exhibition—the grid as a pictorial device and thematic element—through the overlay plastic grid cover. 

Yto Barrada

Tree Identification for Beginners, 2017

Texts by Mounira Bouzid, Adrienne Edwards

Yto Barrada’s Tree Identification for Beginners collects imagery and documentation relating to her mother’s first visit to the US in 1966 as part of the Operation Crossroads Africa program. Archival materials, reproduced on newsprint, present a complex history and challenge accepted narratives through myth, autobiography, and structures of learning. Included are a voiceover script of Barrada’s mother recounting her experience—part of the performance and film of the same name—and an interview with the artist by curator Adrienne Edwards. In 2018, the publication won a Most Beautiful Swiss Books award from the Swiss Office of Culture.