PACE
EXHIBITION
EXHIBITION
ARLENE SHECHET
Born in New York City in 1951 and now based in upstate New York, Arlene Shechet is widely known for her genre-defying ceramics and her hybrid sculptures that merge metal, clay, and wood into distinctive forms that are simultaneously architectural, organic, and mechanical. Uniting seemingly disparate shapes, colors, and materials, her works—while abstract—are imbued with psychological and emotional resonances to invite reflection from the viewer.
Marking Shechet’s first-ever solo exhibition in Japan, this show will bring together new and recent works that ride the edge between stillness and motion, much like that of the Japanese art and material culture that has long inspired her. Enactments of tilting, contorting, bending, and melting recur throughout her sculptures, which, unearthing the expressive potential of material and form, force us to sit with—and move around—their contradictions.
VENUE
VENUE
PACE
- C14
- Azabudai
Founded in 1960 by Arne Glimcher and now led by his son Marc, Pace is a leading international art gallery representing some of the most significant artists and estates of the 20th and 21st centuries, including Alexander Calder, Jean Dubuffet, Lee Ufan, Sol LeWitt, and David Hockney. Following locations in New York, Los Angeles, London, Geneva, Seoul, and Hong Kong, Pace’s new Tokyo gallery is its eighth permanent space globally. Located in the Azabudai Hills complex in a building designed by Thomas Heatherwick, Pace Tokyo spans three floors and approximately 510 square meters, with interiors designed by Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto.
