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Helen Pashgian

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Space Shifters at the Hayward Gallery 2018. 

Alicja K Wade - stand out piece.

Artists included: Leonor Antunes, Larry Bell, Fred Eversley, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Jeppe Hein, Roni Horn, Robert Irwin, Ann Veronica Janssens, Anish Kapoor, Yayoi Kusama, Alicja Kwade, John McCracken, Josiah McElheny, Helen Pashgian, Charlotte Posenenske, Fred Sandback, Monika Sosnowska, Daniel Steegmann Mangrané, De Wain Valentine and Richard Wilson.

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Helen Pashgian

One of the members of the California Light and Space movement that emerged in the 1960s, Helen made her mark with translucent abstract sculptures crafted from pigmented acrylic resins. #helenpashgian

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#helenpashgian #castepoxy (à Palm Springs Art Museum) https://www.instagram.com/p/B1PtJ1eCpH-/?igshid=goe47s0nwe4k

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HELEN PASHGIAN, Untitled (GR10), 2016, formed acrylic, 45 x 16 x 11 inches #helenpashgian #lightandspace #gold #sandiego (at Quint Gallery)

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Monday's image: August 21, 2017

Helen Pashgian, Untitled, Cast polyester resin, 8 inches diameter, 1968-1969, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, California

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"The world we live in is so fast... this is contemplative. It’s timeless. It belongs to no culture.” #HelenPashgian on her work, Make sure to see her work at @friezenewyork next week and prepare for her first solo exhibition in 50 years next year in NY @lehmannmaupin. Go to Flaunt.com to read her full interview.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Photographed: @AlixSpence⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #flauntmagazine #flaunt #flauntdotcom #art #epoxy

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At the end of her interview with the Getty Conservation Institute, Helen Pashgian brings about the idea of her work lasting long enough that it could be buried by time and rediscovered by future people. Is it important for conservators and artists to think about the very distant future of their work or should we only concern ourselves with the now and immediate future of art? #helenpashgian #gettyconservationinstitute — view on Instagram https://ift.tt/2TkpRqa

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Helen Pashgian

Untitled (Column #8), 2011

Formed acrylic

91 1/4” (H) x 21 1/2” (W) x 19 1/2” (D)

"Helen Pashgian: 1966 - Present" now on view at Ace Beverly Hills through August 2014. A pioneer and pre-eminent member of the Light and Space movement, Pashgian is represented in a choice collection of works spanning nearly 5 decades.

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Artist Helen Pashgian brings her love of light to LACMA's space

By Deborah Vankin, latimes.com

On this dark, drizzly afternoon, one could easily miss Helen Pashgian's Pasadena art studio, a converted piano warehouse nestled down an alleyway between a parking garage and a coffee house. Except that Pashgian's brick studio is painted sunny yellow and ocean blue, and it pops against the surrounding blur of concrete and gray sky — a spot of light and levity amid the heavy and the dreary.

The 79-year-old artist, a pioneer of Southern California's Light and Space movement of the '60s and '70s, also pops when she appears in the entrance. Tall and athletic-looking in jeans and a plain blue jersey, her platinum blond hair swept elegantly off her face, Pashgian swings open the door with exuberance.

"Come on inside!" she says brightly. "Let's get this started!"

She leads the way into her creative sanctuary, where she's tweaking a new installation that goes on view Sunday at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. At first glance, her studio looks like a carpenter's work space. Shelves of power tools, plastic safety goggles and coils of orange electrical cord line the walls. A disc-shaped industrial epoxy mold, roughly the size of a car hood, dries on a tabletop, beneath a sheath of white cardboard.

"Don't look under there! Not yet," Pashgian says in a deep voice, followed by a short chuckle that's both playful and a bit threatening. "Let's sit. C'mon."

Pashgian was one of the few women in a loose group of Southern California artists who coalesced in the late '60s, including James Turrell, Larry Bell, Peter Alexander, Robert Irwin and DeWain Valentine. After World War II, these so-called Light and Space artists experimented with materials previously used in the nearby engineering and aerospace industries, such as fiberglass, polyester resin and plastics. The artists bent and twisted these materials, also used to make surfboards and custom cars, into sculptural works that often played with light and perception.

Although Pashgian has shown her work, steadily, in solo and group gallery shows since the '60s — she's currently at L.A.'s Ace Gallery — she didn't achieve the same widespread recognition as her male contemporaries. She only recently inched into a brighter spotlight as part of the 2011-12 Pacific Standard Time program, where she was in two group exhibitions.

"She's someone who's been really overlooked from that period because women were overlooked in the art world then," Turrell says. "I worked with light and sort of materialized it. Bob Irwin worked with material and de-materialized it into light aspects. Helen was the one who as a sculptor spiritualized the material world. You can sort of materialize the spiritual, but she was coming from the other direction, and I thought that was really interesting and beautiful in her work."

"Helen Pashgian: Light Invisible" opens Sunday at LACMA as Pashgian's first solo show at a major museum. The large-scale installation consists of 12 towering acrylic columns, milky white and translucent, that stand 8 feet high and will run for 120 feet when lined up in the museum's Art of the Americas Building. The columns illuminate varied shapes inside of them — a floating, jellyfish-like disc, a glowing cube or elongated triangle. They're elegant and austere, dramatic and sensual — and oddly nuanced, morphing as viewers move around them.

Click here to continue reading the article online.

Click here to visit the gallery's website. 

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Light Invisible, which was created by artist Helen Pashgian specifically for LACMA and recently purchased by the museum, features 12 elliptical columns arranged in a single line in a cavernous black room. 

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Helen Pashgian sanding a polyester disc during her artist residency at Caltech circa 1971. © Helen Pashgian

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The @LATimes published a great article about the Helen Pashgian exhibition at @LACMA. "The material Pashgian shapes is your mind."

Read here: http://ow.ly/vWoFZ

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Helen Pashgian covers an in-progress piece that she created with industrial epoxy. (Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times)

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Helen Pashgian has worked amongst other Light and Space artists such as James Turrell and DeWain Valentine. http://ow.ly/i/54dkF