Highlights from Pace Gallery return to Frieze Los Angeles
Installation view of Pace at Frieze Los Angeles, Booth #C09, Santa Monica Airport, February 26–March 1, 2026 Photography courtesy Pace Gallery
Pace’s booth at this year’s edition of Frieze Los Angeles spotlights works by artists with strong connections to the city,v including a never-before-seen, rounded-diamond installation by James Turrell; new paintings by Mary Corse and Friedrich Kunath; a suite of works on paper by David Lynch, who is the subject of exhibitions at the gallery’s Berlin and Los Angeles spaces this year; a 2018 work on paper by David Hockney; a 2020 sculpture by Peter Alexander; and photographs by Richard Misrach.
The presentation will showcase the gallery’s contemporary program with works by Robert Longo, Kohei Nawa, Marina Perez Simão, Alejandro Piñeiro Bello, and Mika Tajima. Historical works on the booth will include paintings by Jean Dubuffet, Emily Kam Kngwarray, and Richard Pousette-Dart; a sculpture by Lynda Benglis; a 1969 painting by Kenneth Noland; and mixed media wall reliefs by Louise Nevelson, whose retrospective at the Centre Pompidou-Metz is on view through August 31.
Arlene Shechet See Stars: Together, 2025SCULPTUREglazed ceramic and powder coated steel17-1/2" ×16" ×12" (44.5 cm ×40.6 cm ×30.5 cm) © Arlene Shechet, courtesy Pace Gallery
It will also feature a sculpture by Arlene Shechet, who debuts a new outdoor sculpture at Pace Los Angeles in February— the artist will be in conversation with David Salle and Stephanie Barron in an event at Pace on Saturday, February 28, during the run of Frieze.
An exhibition of new paintings by Lauren Quin at Pace Los Angeles, on view through March 28, coincides with the fair. Highlights on Pace’s booth include:
James Turrell Carat and Schtik, 2021 INSTALLATIONLED light, etched glass, and shallow space48" ×66" (121.9 cm ×167.6 cm) Runtime: 2 hours 30 minutes © James Turrell, courtesy Pace Gallery
• James Turrell’s 2021 installation Carat and Schtik, a never-before-exhibited work from the artist's Glassworks series in which he explores the sensorial experience of space, color, and perception
David Lynch He Went and He Did Do That Thing, n.d. WORK ON PAPER mixed media on paper22-1/4" ×30" (56.5 cm ×76.2 cm) (paper size, unframed)Framed Size:28 x 35-1/2 x 1-1/2 inches © The David Lynch Estate, courtesy Pace Gallery
• A suite of works on paper by David Lynch, whose paintings, sculptures, watercolors, and early short films are on view in an exhibition at Pace’s Berlin gallery through March 29—Lynch will also be the subject of a major presentation at Pace Los Angeles later this year
• A 2025 glazed ceramic and powder coated steel sculpture by Arlene Shechet, who will debut Big Sister (2025)— the first outdoor sculpture she is exhibiting since her 2024 presentation Girl Group at Storm King—at Pace’s Los Angeles gallery on February 11, remaining on view through June 6
• Mixed media sculptures from Kohei Nawa’s iconic PixCell series, a body of work that also figures in the artist’s first solo exhibition in Los Angeles, opening at Pace on April 11
• A new Art d'Ameublement painting by Mika Tajima, who will present a solo show at Pace Los Angeles this summer
Mary Corse Untitled (Black Reflective Diamond with Inner Band), 2025PAINTINGacrylic squares in acrylic on canvas39-1/2" ×39-1/2" ×2-3/4" (100.3 cm ×100.3 cm ×7 cm) © Mary Corse, courtesy Pace Gallery
• A 2025 painting by Mary Corse, who has been a key member of the Los Angeles artist community since the 1960s, exploring phenomena of light, space, and perception in her work for six decades
• David Hockney’s Viewers Looking at a Ready-made with Skull and Mirrors (2018), a photographic drawing printed on paper
• A urethane sculpture created in 2020 by Peter Alexander, who was born in Los Angeles in 1939 and became a key figure of the California Light and Space movement
• Los Angeles-based artist Friedrich Kunath’s new painting I Don’t Worry Anymore (2026)
Richard Misrach Untitled (November 11, 2012 12:26 PM) [The Kiss #2],2012 PIGMENT pigment print mounted to Dibond 58-1/2" ×78" (148.6 cm ×198.1 cm), image, paper and mount 62-1/2" ×82" ×3" (158.8 cm ×208.3 cm ×7.6 cm), frame signed, titled, dated and numbered in ink on label affixed verso of mount and frame © Richard Misrach, Courtesy of Pace Gallery, New York, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco and Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Los Angeles
• Two photographs by Los Angeles-born artist Richard Misrach, who is one of the most influential photographers of his generation, instrumental in pioneering the use of color photography and large-scale format in the 1970s
• Royal Lancer (1990), a sculpture by Lynda Benglis, whose work is on view in the exhibition Lynda Benglis Encounters: Giacometti at the Barbican in London through May 31 and who will present a solo show at Pace in New York this fall
• New charcoal drawings by Robert Longo, who will present a solo exhibition at Pace’s Tokyo gallery this spring
• New and recent paintings by Marina Perez Simão and Alejandro Piñeiro Bello
• Mixed media wall reliefs created in 1977 by Louise Nevelson, whose retrospective at the Centre Pompidou-Metz in France continues through August 31
• A 1983 painting by Jean Dubuffet, who posed fundamental questions about the nature of reality in his work across mediums
• Transition (1990), a painting by Emily Kam Kngwarray, who will be the subject of a survey exhibition, presented in collaboration with D'Lan Contemporary, opening at Pace’s New York gallery in May
Richard Pousette–Dart Implosion into the Firmament, 1991-92 PAINTING acrylic and ink on cotton duck 49-3/4" ×60-1/8" (126.4 cm ×152.7 cm © Estate of Richard Pousette–Dart / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
• Richard Pousette-Dart’s painting Implosion into the Firmament (1991–92)—a presentation of the artist’s work, titled Geometry of Summer, is on view at Pace in New York through February 28
• Elide (1969), a large-scale painting by Kenneth Noland, who was instrumental in forging the language of postwar abstraction in the US
On View at Pace Los Angeles
Lauren Quin: Eyelets of Alkaline
January 31 – March 28
Los Angeles-based artist Lauren Quin presents new paintings in her debut solo exhibition with Pace since joining the gallery’s program last year. In her new canvases, produced over the past year and a half, Quin has turned from an “overdose” of chromatic intensity toward what she describes as a “detox of color.” This presentation is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue from Pace Publishing, featuring a new text by the poet, playwright, and essayist Ariana Reines.
Arlene Shechet: Big Sister
February 11 – June 6
Arlene Shechet will debut Big Sister (2025), a painted aluminum sculpture, at Pace Los Angeles on February 11. Big Sister, which will be on view in the gallery’s courtyard, is the first new outdoor sculpture she is exhibiting since her critically acclaimed 2024 presentation Girl Group at Storm King Art Center in New York.
At the gallery on February 28, during Frieze Los Angeles, Shechet will be joined in conversation by artist David Salle and Stephanie Barron, Senior Curator and Department Head of Modern Art at LACMA. Presented by Pace Live and LACMA’s Modern and Contemporary Art Council, this event will run from 10:30 a.m. to 12 p.m., with doors opening at 10 a.m. To RSVP, click here.
Installation view of Pace at Frieze Los Angeles, Booth #C09, Santa Monica Airport, February 26–March 1, 2026 Photography courtesy Pace Gallery
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Since its founding by Arne Glimcher in 1960, Pace has developed a distinguished legacy as an artist-first gallery that mounts seminal historical and contemporary exhibitions. Under the current leadership of CEO Marc Glimcher, Pace continues to support its artists and share their visionary work with audiences worldwide by remaining at the forefront of innovation. Now in its seventh decade, the gallery advances its mission through a robust global program— comprising exhibitions, artist projects, public installations, institutional collaborations, performances, and interdisciplinary projects. Pace has a legacy in art bookmaking and has published over five hundred titles in close collaboration with artists, with a focus on original scholarship and on introducing new voices to the art historical canon.
Today, Pace has seven locations worldwide, including European footholds in London and Geneva as well as Berlin, where the gallery established an office in 2023. Pace maintains two galleries in New York—its headquarters at 540 West 25th Street, which welcomed almost 120,000 visitors and programmed 20 shows in its first six months, and an adjacent 8,000 sq. ft. exhibition space at 510 West 25th Street. Pace’s long and pioneering history in California includes a gallery in Palo Alto, which was open from 2016 to 2022. Pace’s engagement with Silicon Valley’s technology industry has had a lasting impact on the gallery at a global level, accelerating its initiatives connecting art and technology as well as its work with experiential artists. Pace consolidated its West Coast activity through its flagship in Los Angeles, which opened in 2022. Pace was one of the first international galleries to establish outposts in Asia, where it operates permanent gallery spaces in Hong Kong and Seoul, along with an office and viewing room in Beijing. In 2024, Pace will open its first gallery space in Japan in Tokyo’s new Azabudai Hills development.
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