NEW YORK, NY.- Pace’s current exhibitions—Mary Corse: Presence in Light, Joel Shapiro: Out of the Blue, and Jiro Takamatsu: The World Expands—will close on October 26 and November 2, respectively.

Mary Corse: Presence in Light
On view through October 26 at 540 W 25th Street

Marking Mary Corse’s first solo show in New York since 2019 and following recent institutional exhibitions by the artist, Presence in Light debuts a new series of diamond shaped paintings—the first she has made since the 1960s—which continue her longstanding practice of incorporating glass microspheres into the painted surface. Corse’s return to the diamond format underscores one of the hallmarks of her practice: an interest in recursion and return to early ideas. Over the course of her six-decade career, Corse has explored phenomena of light, space, and perception in sublime and boundary-crossing abstractions across mediums. Also included in the presentation at Pace is Corse’s Halo Room, a new architectural installation that she has been developing over the last several years, which offers a participatory, intimate experience of scale, space, and light, that hinges on the energetic relationship between individual and object. Corse’s exhibition at Pace coincides with her participation in Particles and Waves: Southern California Abstraction and Science, 1945-1990—a group exhibition organized as part of the Getty’s PST ART: Art & Science Collide initiative—at the Palm Springs Art Museum in California.

Joel Shapiro: Out of the Blue
On view through October 26 at 510 W 25th Street

The artist’s first solo show with Pace in New York since 2014, Out of the Blue, which will be accompanied by a new catalogue from Pace Publishing featuring an essay by poet and scholar Vincent Katz, spotlights three never-before-exhibited painted wood sculptures. One of America's most renowned artists, Shapiro has pushed the boundaries of sculptural form over the course of his 55-year career with a body of work distinguished by its dynamism, complexity, and formal elegance. Over the past two decades, the kinetic, often cantilevered compositions that defined Shapiro’s work throughout the 1980s and 1990s have been torn apart and reassembled into newly rapturous, chromatic combinations. In his show in New York, Shapiro relinquishes the suspended forms of his 2010 Pace installation—which the late critic Peter Schjeldahl described in The New Yorker as “like a Malevich canvas bursting to life in 3-D”—and returns with renewed vigor to vibrant, precariously joined, free-standing sculptures that, although floor-bound, retain intimations of flight, expansion, and buoyancy.

CLOSING NEXT WEEK

Jiro Takamatsu: The World Expands
On view through November 2 at 540 W 25th Street

Following its representation of the Jiro Takamatsu Estate, Pace presents its first exhibition of works by Jiro Takamatsu—a profoundly influential artist, theorist, and teacher who emerged in postwar Japan in the early 1960s. The presentation focuses on Takamatsu’s Shadow and Perspective concepts, bringing together a selection of his paintings, drawings, and sculptural objects dating from 1966 to 1997. Takamatsu was a prolific artist who produced diverse bodies of work, often simultaneously, over his 40-year career. He explored ideas about reality and the self, matter and space, and presence and absence. This exhibition showcases his inventive, deeply philosophical practice and his important role in the development of Conceptual Art.