NEW YORK, NY.- Pace announced its presentation for the 2025 edition of Frieze New York. Curated by Adam Pendleton, the gallery's booth will feature six of his recent paintings alongside six new and recent sculptures by Lynda Benglis. This year’s edition of Frieze New York will coincide with Adam Pendleton: Love, Queen, an exhibition on view at the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, D.C. from April 4, 2025 to January 3, 2027—anchoring the institution’s 50th anniversary celebration. The artist’s presentations at both the Hirshhorn and Frieze will focus on his unique contributions to contemporary American painting.

The presentation explores how both artists translate gesture into physical form through their distinct mediums—Pendleton through painting and Benglis through sculpture—revealing their shared interest in pushing the boundaries of abstraction through formal, material, and conceptual innovation. Pendleton’s paintings challenge convention by blurring distinctions among painting, photography, and drawing, rendering visually active and spatially complex works that give visual form to what the artist describes as the 'complex real'—the onslaught of sensory phenomena and often contradictory information that defines contemporary experience. Benglis has been celebrated for her free, ecstatic forms, which are simultaneously playful, visceral, organic, and abstract, since the 1960s.

At Frieze New York, Pendleton will present four Black Dada paintings from 2024 alongside two new Movement paintings completed this year. In his new Movement paintings—which will debut at the Hirshhorn Museum and will be shown for the first time in New York at Frieze—Pendleton meditates on the force and potential of performative gestures and how painting can communicate the limits and spirit of the human body. Benglis will present six bronze sculptures, created between 2021 and 2024. Each of these coiling, twisting, jutting, and snaking works in bronze has a relationship with an existing clay sculpture by the artist. These sculptures lend shape to feeling, harnessing liquid, buoyant qualities to express the pleasures of gesture and materiality, the powers of memory, the poetics of gravity, and the matter of sensation itself.

On the occasion of the fair, Pace Publishing will release a new book on Pendleton's work from his 2024 New York solo exhibition with the gallery, An Abstraction.

Joan Jonas: Drawings
Curated by Adam Pendleton
May 17 – June 28, 2025
1F; Azabudai Hills Garden Plaza-A
5-8-1 Toranomon, Minato-ku
Tokyo

Pace will 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.