FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Pace Publishing Printed Matter: Virtual Art Book Fair February 25–28, 2021 Special preview: February 24, 2021 pacegallery.com/publishing Instagram Shop @pacegallery New York, NY – Pace Publishing is pleased to participate in Printed Matter’s inaugural Virtual Art Book Fair (PMVABF), on view on Printed Matter’s custom-built digital platform February 25–28, 2021. For over six decades, Pace Gallery has been publishing books in collaboration with and in support of its artists, establishing Pace Publishing as one of the longest standing gallery imprints and a pioneer in art bookmaking. Over 500 titles have been created under Pace Publishing, with an enduring focus on original scholarship and innovative design, underpinned by a rigorous and creative approach. Today, Pace Publishing remains dedicated to working closely with artists, commissioning writing that introduces new voices to the art historical canon, and creating lasting resources for understanding each artist’s unique practice. Pace draws on the expertise of its tenured in- house design team, who have been at Pace for nearly 30 years, to creatively direct every publication, as well as its in-house curatorial team to identify the leading thinkers in the field. Pace’s illustrious publishing history includes the first English-language publication on Jean Dubuffet with a text by art historian and Pace Gallery co-founder Mildred Glimcher, one-of-a-kind artist’s books such as Kiki Smith’s The Fourth Day: Destruction of Birds and Yto Barrada’s Tree Identification for Beginners, which was awarded one of the Most Beautiful Swiss Books of 2018 by the Swiss Office of Culture, and sought-after titles made to complement seminal exhibitions, such as Mark Rothko: Paintings 1948–1969 (1983) and Grids: Format and Image in 20th Century Art (1978), which features a text by renowned art theorist Rosalind Krauss. For Printed Matter’s Art Book Fair, Pace Publishing is bringing together 18 titles that reflect its decades-long activity at the forefront of art bookmaking, including a number of rare and vintage books being made available for sale exclusively on the occasion of the fair, both through Printed Matter’s platform and through Pace Gallery’s newly launched Instagram Shop (@pacegallery). These include: Jean Dubuffet: Recent Paintings, Paysage Castillians Sites Tricolores (1975), Kiki Smith: New Work (1995), Lucas Samaras: Kiss Kill/Perverted Geometry/Inedibles (1996), Steinberg: Drawing into Being (1999), and the final three remaining signed copies of Zhang Huan: Blessings (2008), among others. The book fair presentation FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Left: Sam Gilliam: Existed Existing (2020); Right: Louise Nevelson: 1964 (1964); Lucas Samaras: Kiss Kill/Perverted Geometry/Inedibles (1996); Robert Rauschenberg boxed set (1996-1999) will also spotlight the three most recent titles from the gallery’s contemporary publishing program—including the launch of Arlene Shechet: Skirts (2020/21), featuring new texts by Rachel Silveri and Deborah Solomon and designed by Other Means; Sam Gilliam: Existed Existing (2020), which includes contributions from Courtney J. Martin, Fred Moten, and Hans Ulrich Obrist; and an artist’s book made in collaboration with Jo Baer, Up Close in the Land of the Giants (2020). On February 25 at 2 PM EST, to mark the release of Arlene Shechet: Skirts (2020/21), the gallery will present an online public program with the artist in conjunction with the fair, during which Shechet will be in conversation with the book’s designer, Gary Fogelson, of Other Means. Other Pace titles that will be displayed on the book fair platform include a range of publications that represent the breadth of the Pace Publishing backlist, including books devoted to the practices of Alexander Calder, Tara Donovan, David Hockney, Loie Hollowell, Agnes Martin, Adam Pendleton, and Richard Tuttle. Below is the full list of Pace publications that will be on view at Printed Matter’s Virtual Art Book Fair. PACE PUBLISHING Recent Books Sam Gilliam: Existed Existing (2020) Texts by Courtney J. Martin, Fred Moten, Hans Ulrich Obrist Design by Tomo Makiura & Mine Suda; Hardcover; 157 pp; 10 ¼ x 10 ¼”; $ 65 Published for Sam Gilliam’s recent exhibition, Existed Existing, this book features new paintings, washi papers, and sculptural works by the artist. Courtney J. Martin discusses Gilliam’s approach to exhibition-making and the evolution of his practice in her essay “Imagine the Show on the First Day.” In “The Circle With a Whole in the Middle,” FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Left to right: Jo Baer: Up Close in the Land of the Giants (2020); Kiki Smith: New Work (1995); Steinberg: Drawing into Being (1999) poet, cultural theorist, and MacArthur Fellow Fred Moten illuminates Gilliam’s work in dialogue with the aesthetic considerations of abstraction and Blackness. An interview by Hans Ulrich Obrist explores themes including family, music, peers, and poetry. Arlene Shechet: Skirts (2020) Texts by Rachel Silveri, Deborah Solomon, Michaëla Mohrmann Design by Other Means; Clothbound hardcover; 252 pp; 12 x 7.5”; $ 65 Made for Arlene Shechet’s solo exhibition Skirts, this richly illustrated catalogue features color reproductions, including details and installation views, of recent assemblages by the New York-based sculptor. Shechet discusses her practice in two new interviews alongside an essay by scholar Rachel Silveri, who explores the lively work in conversation with and as a feminist intervention in the history of modern art. The considered approach to design, including the use of a variety of paper types, nods to Shechet’s own engagement with material. Jo Baer: Up Close in the Land of the Giants (2020) Texts by Jo Baer, Andria Hickey Design by Mine Suda; Hardcover; 136 pp; 10 ¾ x 8 ¼”; $ 55 Expanding on the themes introduced in Jo Baer’s 2013 catalogue In the Land of the Giants—published for the dual exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam and the Ludwig Museum Cologne—Up Close in the Land of the Giants features extended texts, found and drawn images, and paintings by the artist. This new publication provides deep insight into Baer’s research-based approach of locating source imagery in the Irish landscape, which has inspired and informed her visual lexicon for two decades. Loie Hollowell: Plumb Line (2019) Texts by Emma Enderby, Iris Cushing, Elissa Auther Design by Michael Aberman; Clothbound softcover; 198 pp; 11 x 9”; $ 55 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Made on the occasion of a solo exhibition of work by New York-based painter Loie Hollowell, Plumb Line features reproductions and installation images of nine large-scale paintings that explore the artist’s relationship with the maternal body. Poems by Iris Cushing run throughout the book and die-cut and colored pages evoke the biomorphic paintings’ breaching of boundaries between the illusory and the real. An art historical essay by Emma Enderby, a conversation between the artist and Elissa Auther, and Hollowell’s own sketchbook pages provide indispensable context. Calder: Small Sphere and Heavy Sphere (2019) Texts by Alexander S. C. Rower, Susan Braeuer Dam, Arnauld Pierre, Noam M. Elcott Design by Tomo Makiura; Hardcover; 152 pp; 10 ¾ x 9 ¼”; $ 70 Titled after Alexander Calder’s first hanging mobile and made to accompany a sweeping exhibition of more than 70 works, this catalogue charts the sculptor’s conception of the groundbreaking form of the mobile. Reproductions, installation images, and archival images—including a suite of historic photographs taken by Marc Vaux in the 1930s and drawings of animals in motion by Calder—are contextualized through scholarly contributions by Alexander S. C. Rower, Susan Braeuer Dam, Arnauld Pierre, and Noam M. Elcott. David Hockney: La Grande Cour Normandy (2019) Text by David Hockney Design by David Hockney and Gregory Evans; Hardcover; 86 pp; 11 ¼ x 10 3/8”; $ 50 This exhibition catalogue features the first body of work that British artist David Hockney made at his Normandy studio, depicting the arrival of spring. A 24-panel panoramic drawing, here rendered as single panels as well as in a fold-out design, demonstrates Hockney’s ability to unite temporal and spatial experiences into a single image, inspired by Chinese scroll paintings and the Bayeaux Tapestry. The book includes a text on the series by the artist in English and French. Richard Tuttle: A Drawing Book.... (2019) Design by Richard Tuttle; Clothbound hardcover; 22 pp; 10 ¼ x 7 ¼”; $ 40 This clothbound artist’s book features drawings by Richard Tuttle, who since the 1960s has produced lyrical and intimate work across media as varied as sculpture, painting, poetry, drawing, assemblage, and bookmaking. In A Drawing Book...., Tuttle investigates line, color, texture, and volume in delicate and intuitive markings that spring from the inside margin, accompanied by a short poem. Agnes Martin/Navajo Blankets (2019) Text by Nancy Princenthal & Anne Lane Hedlund Design by Mine Suda; Clothbound hardcover; 80 pp; 10 ¾ x 9 ¾”; $ 60 With reproductions and installation views of the 2018 bicoastal exhibition, this catalogue brings together the meditative paintings of Agnes Martin, who spent much of her life in New Mexico, and 19th-century Navajo textiles, FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE which also channel ideals of harmony and balance through abstraction. A conversation between Martin’s biographer Nancy Princenthal and cultural anthropologist Anne Lane Hedlund considers the connection and elucidates shared sensibilities. Adam Pendleton: Our Ideas (2018) Texts by Adam Pendleton, Suzanne Hudson, Alec Mapes-Frances, Yvonne Rainer, Adrienne Edwards Design by Marc Hollenstein; Clothbound hardcover; 166 pp; 10 3/4 x 8 ¾”; $ 40 Published for Adam Pendleton’s 2018 solo show, this book showcases work across media by the New York-based artist, including Black Dada drawings and paintings; the fragmented Untitled (A Victim of American Democracy) paintings; multilayered Mylar transparencies; and stills and a transcript from a single-channel video featuring choreographer Yvonne Rainer. The book presents writings by the artist, Suzanne Hudson, and Alec Mapes-Frances, as well as a discussion between Pendleton and Rainer with Adrienne Edwards.