Pace is pleased to announce details of its presentation for the 2023 edition of the Art Dealers Association of America (ADAA) Art Show, running from November 2 to 5 at the Park Avenue Armory in New York.
The gallery's booth (#C2) will spotlight new and recent works by Kiki Smith, who has been an integral figure in Pace's program for nearly 30 years.
Smith has been cultivating her multidisciplinary practice spanning sculpture, printmaking, photography, drawing, and textile work since the 1980s. As part of her experimentations across mediums and materials, the artist has drawn inspiration from a wide range of histories, visual cultures, and mythologies to meditate on embodied experiences of the natural world. The works that Smith will show at the ADAA Art Show centre on the ecstasy and mystery of nature in full bloom.
Smith's solo booth presentation will be anchored by sculpture, featuring her large-scale 2023 bronze Dark Water, in which the artist anthropomorphises the divine power of water as a goddess-like figure, as well as her painted aluminium work Cluster (2021), a dynamic composition of overlapping and colliding five-pointed stars.
Works from her celebrated Pollinator series—comprising numerous wall-mounted sculptural elements that coalesce as a singular, abstract entity—will also figure prominently on the booth. For her Pollinator series, which she began in 2022, Smith draws inspiration from the natural surroundings of her home and studio in Upstate New York, employing an intricate hand-leafing technique for each piece of her installations. Notably, a work from the Pollinator series was included in Smith's recent solo show at the Albuquerque Museum of Art in New Mexico.
Additional booth highlights include a selection of the artist's recent Kaaterskill Falls cliché verre prints, which she creates by making inscriptions into a Plexiglass plate, mixing ink on the plate's surface, and then shooting her images on photogram paper—rendering the ink as white space and exposing the composition outlined within the ink markings. Her dreamy work on paper Long Night Moon (2023), which depicts a wolf against a starry night sky, will also be on view.
Ahead of Smith's solo presentation at the ADAA Art Show, she will open a solo exhibition titled Empathy at the Diocesan Museum Freising in Germany, running from October 8, 2023 to January 7, 2024. The artist also recently unveiled five mosaics commissioned for the new Grand Central Madison station in New York City, including her 80- foot-long artwork River Light.
Date
2–5 November 2023
Location
Park Avenue Armory
643 Park Ave, New York, 10065