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Lee Ufan
Pace Gallery NY 2015 ISBN 9781935410751 Acqn 25120
Hb 29x23cm 72pp 31cil ills 35
Since his foundational role in Japans Mono-ha (School of Things) movement in the 1960s, Lee
has developed an oeuvre attuned to the interconnectedness of matter and consciousness.
Referring to his artworks as living structures, he takes a philosophical approach to creating
them, viewing his gestures and raw materials as entities that reveal conditions and states of the
world as well as our relationship to it. The exhibition highlights the artists continued attention to
how objects and gestures shape space and will feature new paintings, watercolours and
sculpture.

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Tara Donovan
Pace Gallery NY 2015 ISBN 9781935410744 Acqn 25121
Hb 27x30cm 172pp 96ills 53
Donovan made her first pin drawings in 2009, continuing her practice of accumulating common
objects into dense, visually rich compositions. Using thousands of nickel-plated steel pinsa
material typically used by tailorspressed into white gatorboard, she creates shimmering
gradients through the clustering of pins and their interaction with light.
The works negotiate a space between sculpture and drawing, using three-dimensional objects to
create what, at certain distances, seems to be a two-dimensional field
Donovan expands upon her previous series of pin drawings by inscribing an underlying geometry
into the structure of the drawings, which reveals itself through a multi-perspectival observation.
When viewed from the side, we see the length between the pinhead and gatorboard, which
generates a new experience of the field of pins.

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Lucas Samaras - Album 2

Pace Gallery NY 2015 ISBN 9781935410737 Acqn 25122
Hb 19x25cm 24pp 700col ills 26.50
Samaras continues his exploration of manipulated images and identity with 700 digitally altered
images. Comprised mostly of self-portraits, the photographs reflect the artists unrelenting selfinquiry. Among the recent self-portraits, Samaras has interspersed personal family photographs
with childhood images of himself, transforming the project into a personal archive and a
biographical inquiry.
The manipulations of the photographs refer back to the rainbow-tinged Auto-Polaroids Samaras
began in the 1960s and his Photo-Transformations of the 1970s. Using a range of techniques
from filters to mirroring and doubling, Samarass manipulations form visual metaphors for the
psychological probing and self-investigation that appears throughout the artists oeuvre. The
filters and changes that characterize this massive body of images also refer to his protoPhotoshop works of the 1980s and digital videos in the 2000s, constituting something of an
archive of previous techniques.

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Robert Irwin Cacophonous

Pace Gallery NY 2015 ISBN 9781935410720 Acqn 25123
Pb 30x23cm 44pp 14col ills 31
Since the 1960s, Irwin has emphasized experience as an extension of the perceptual. The
pioneer of the Light and Space movement in Southern California, Irwins work draws focus to
ambient environmental conditions, making them palpable by heightening the viewers awareness
in the context of the work.
For his exhibition at Pace, he has produced eight works that advance his use of fluorescent light,
a material he first used in the 1970s. Irwin installs rows of columnar lights, coating the different
tubes with coloured gels that alter the transmission of light. Other tubes remain unlit taking some
advantage of the reflected light. The walls, as well as the contiguous elements that constitute the
piece, are perceived as a whole.

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Thomas Nozkowski
Pace Gallery NY 2015 ISBN 9781935410713 Acqn 25124
Pb 29x23cm 76pp 61col ills 35
Since the 1970s Nozkowski has produced abstract paintings and drawings inspired by events and
places he has experienced firsthand. His paintings are the result of an extensive series of
decisions in which he experiments with a form, colour, or gesture, and then reworks it repeatedly
over subsequent days, weeks or even years. His compositions reveal vivid organic shapes,
gradations of colour, exchanges between translucency and opaqueness, and explorations of the
figure/ground relationship.
Nozkowski produces many of his oil on linen on panel and oil on paper works simultaneously.
These two bodies of work provide insight into the artists process as he charts various possibilities
for forms, colours, or patterns that might initiate in a linen on panel work and be reinterpreted or
digress into something else on paper.

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James Siena - New Sculptures

Pace Gallery NY 2015 ISBN 9781935410706 Acqn 25125
Pb 22x29cm 62pp 50col ills 31
The exhibition features three bodies of work that expand the formal language of his painting into
sculpture, marking the culmination of a decades-long development of three-dimensional work.

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Mao Yan
Pace Gallery NY 2015 ISBN 9781935410690 Acqn 25126
Pb 22x30cm 46pp 18col ills 21.95
Mao Yan contends with the history of portraiture in his work, interpreting figures and faces
through a subjective language steeped in the technical formalism he developed while studying in
Beijing in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Mao Yans paintings exhibit tropes of portraiture such
as the seated nude and oval frames, but cede deliberate representation to style and mood.
Aqueous blue, green, and grey tones swirl around, coalescing into smoky figures defined by
gestural brushwork. He empties his portrait subjects of interiority and identity, divorcing them from
any background or context and allowing paint to take precedence. Mao Yan paints not to
represent but to explore and capture the relationship between paintings spiritual and technical
dimensions.
Painting at different sizes, Mao Yan creates distinct effects. Three nude portraits feature full
figures looming over the viewer on their more than ten-feet-tall canvases. More small scaled
works show only a head or a bust and allow for a more intimate exchange between the painting
and viewer.

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Isamu Noguchi Variations

Pace Gallery NY 2015 ISBN 9781935410683 Acqn 25442
Pb 21x26cm 114pp 61col ills 40
Isamu Noguchis work over his seven-decade practice varied from stone and plywood sculpture
to furniture and paper lanterns. He approached all of his work through a sculptural lens, believing
sculpture to be relevant to the principles of design and public space. Variations highlights the role
collaboration played in Noguchis expansive practice. Works such as Octetra, a painted cement
sculpture, display a lyrical, hard-edged geometry that reveal the influence Noguchis friendship
with Buckminster Fuller had on his practice. In addition to working for Knoll and Herman Miller,
Noguchi also designed sets for choreographers and enjoyed a particularly fruitful relationship with
Martha Graham over many decades.
Working in Brancusis Paris studio in the late 1920s was a profoundly influential experience for
Noguchi. A selection of his Paris Abstraction gouaches made at that time demonstrate his early
understanding of space and form that can be reflected in his sleek and roughhewn stone works,
biomorphic plywood sculptures and iconic pieces such as his glass and wood coffee table.
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