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Robert Rauschenberg, Untitled, (solvent transfer, fabric, watercolor, and graphite on paper), 1983 [Pace Gallery, New York, NY. © Robert Rauschenberg Foundation / ARS, New York]

Exhibition: Robert Rauschenberg: Against the Grid: Drawings, 1983, Pace Gallery, Seoul, September 19 – November 9, 2019

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Milestone Monday: Louise Nevelson

On this day, September 23, in 1899, artist and sculptor Louise Nevelson was born in what would later be Pereiaslav, Ukraine. Her family emigrated to the United States in 1905 and settled in Rockland, Maine. Nevelson married in 1920 and moved to New York City where she began to study art, singing, and other creative pursuits, much to the chagrin of her husband's wealthy family. She eventually came to focus on sculpture, becoming renowned for her wood collages famously painted all one color—most often black. Her work can be found in over 200 museums and public spaces across the world.

Nevelson also cultivated a personal style that was second-to-none, dressing herself in sumptuous fabrics and patterns accompanied by dramatic makeup. In 1971 she remarked about life in general that:

"In the end, as you get older and older, your life is your life and you are alone with it. You are alone with it, and I don't think that the outside world is needed. It doesn't have much influence on me, as an artist, or on us as individuals, because one cannot be divorced from the other. It is the total life. Mine is a total life."

The images of Nevelson and her work shown here are from a collection of booklets and prints titled Louise Nevelson Remembered: Sculpture and Collages published by the Pace Gallery in 1989.

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-- Alice, Special Collections Department Manager

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05.13.25 David Byrne wall drawings in the staircase of Pace Gallery in Chelsea

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Robert Mangold - Two Squares Within a Double Square (2017)

acrylic and black pencil on canvas 142.2 cm × 243.8 cm

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Wang Guangle | Pace

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With Japanese artist and soul brother Kohei Nawa at his Cosmic Sensibility exhibition at Pace Gallery in Seoul

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Josef Koudelka panoramas at Pace, NYC, April 2024

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Saul Steinberg,

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Jason Moran playing in honour of the painter Sam Gilliam at Pace

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Agnes Martin: The '80s: Grey Paintings, (adv. in «Artforum»), Pace Gallery, New York, NY, September 16 – October 29, 2011 [Art Books & Ephemera. Art: © Estate of Agnes Martin / ARS, New York]

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Michal Rovner, Alert & Alert II

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10.15.24 Joel Shapiro sculptures at Pace Gallery

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The images above are from David Hockney’s 2023 exhibition of iPad paintings, 20 Flowers and Some Bigger Pictures, at Pace Gallery. Hockney discusses these works in this essay from the show’s catalogue.

From Pace about this exhibition-

This exhibition will present a distinct series of editioned and signed inkjet prints including five landscapes, twenty floral still lifes, and a composite of three iPad paintings depicting a bouquet of gladioli. These works reveal the presence of Hockney’s hand as well as his deliberate technique for drafting larger-than-life compositions on the iPad. While Hockney’s flowers capture the fleeting stillness of his subjects, his immersive landscapes establish the vastness of his rural surroundings. Whether bound to a single moment in time or created from multiple planes of vision, Hockney’s distinctive sense of time and space draws from art historical examples ranging from the Bayeux Tapestry and seventeenth-century Chinese scrolls to the still lifes of Henri Matisse.

A cornerstone of the series, Hockney’s landscapes call upon his observations of the changing of seasons. In each of his gridded picture planes, Hockney reimagines the Normandy countryside with bright colors, abstracted forms, and impossible angles of otherwise traditional outdoor scenes. Placing his focus on themes of renewal and rebirth, the resulting body of work reflects the pastoral nostalgia and beauty of the natural world.

First reproduced by the German newspaper, Die Welt, and later debuted at Musée Matisse in Nice, Hockney’s series of twenty flower iPad paintings captures various arrangements of blooms set against a backdrop of gingham tablecloths and burgundy walls. “I was just sitting at the table in our house, and I caught sight of some flowers in a vase on the table,” Hockney explains. “A few days later I started another from the same position with the same ceramic vase. This took longer to do. I then realized if I put the flowers in a glass vase the sun would catch the water, and painting glass would be a more interesting thing to do. So then I was off.” Though attributes vary in each work, such as the species of flower, type of vase, and the color of the tablecloth, consistent elements across this series allow viewers to admire Hockney’s technique and dedication to his subject. Capturing a spectrum of floral compositions with contrasting tones and textures, Hockney displays his propensity for balancing the central artistic elements of line, color, and perspective.

At the center of the exhibition, Hockney debuts his latest large-scale photographic drawing, 25th June 2022, Looking at the Flowers (Framed). Within the composition, Hockney is depicted twice – once on the right side of the scene, and once on the left – sitting in an armchair and looking upon his twenty flower still lifes displayed salon-style on a navy-blue wall. “This is photographic but is in no way an ordinary photograph,” Hockney describes. “I had been doing what I called photographic drawings, giving a much more 3D effect. This is because you have to look at these through time (unlike an ordinary photograph which you see all at once).” From a series of individual photographs, Hockney constructs a seamless panorama that defies the natural parameters of time and space. The photographic drawing pulls viewers into a self-referential world that is at once familiar and entirely new. “Most people thought the photograph was the ultimate depiction of reality, didn’t they? People thought, This is it, this is the end of it. Which it’s not. And I’m very certain it’s not, but not many people think the way I do.”

Recently Hockney was invited to take over the entire building of the Fondation Louis Vuitton art museum in Paris for David Hockney 25.  The exhibition includes- “more than 400 of his works (from 1955 to 2025) including paintings from international, institutional, and private collections, as well as works from the artist’s own studio and Foundation. There are works in a variety of media including oil and acrylic painting, ink, pencil and charcoal drawing, digital art (works on iPhone, iPad, photographic drawings…) and immersive video installations”. The core of the exhibition concentrates on his work from the past 25 years .

That show is on view until 8/31/25.

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Lucas Samaras | Pace

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