James Turrell
For Immediate Release
James Turrell 229 Hamilton Avenue, Palo Alto, CA April 28 – August 28, 2016 Opening Reception: Wednesday, April 27, 4–7 p.m. Palo Alto, CA — Pace Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of their permanent gallery in Palo Alto. with an exhibition of work by James Turrell on view from April 28 to August 28, 2016. The inaugural exhibition features the Reflective Hologram and Wide Glass Series. A public opening reception will be held on Wednesday, April 27 from 4 to 7 p.m. This exhibition exemplifies James Turrell’s ongoing investigation of color, light, perception and space through his works, Pelée (2014), a site-specific Wide Glass installation, as well as a series of Reflective Holograms. In Pelée, Turrell uses a wall of LED light tiles generated by a computer program. The light changes are subtle and hypnotic—one color morphs into the next with hues of blue evolving into green and purple. The program runs on a loop, transfixing the viewer. Utilizing holographic film with glass, the Reflective Hologram works appear to hold a fragment of light and represent Turrell’s smallest holograms, functioning solely through the reflection of light. “Pace has had the honor of championing James Turrell’s work for nearly 50 years. His formidable practice and tireless commitment to exploring technological possibilities combined with sensory dimensions remains one of the most compelling today. We are thrilled to open Pace’s first permanent site in the heart of Silicon Valley with one of our most beloved and original risk takers,” comments Elizabeth Sullivan, President of Pace Palo Alto. Spanning 3,200ft2, the new Palo Alto location marks Pace Gallery’s first permanent site on the West Coast and its second site in the San Francisco Bay Area, complementing the temporary 20,000ft2 Menlo Park space that currently anchors Pace Gallery’s Art + Technology program. Pace Palo Alto is located in the heart of downtown Palo Alto, on the ground floor of the iconic Art Deco Cardinal Hotel, and minutes away from the Stanford University campus. The gallery’s design and construction will be overseen by Los Angeles-based Matthew Sullivan of AQQ Design. About James Turrell: James Turrell (b. 1943, Los Angeles) has been the subject of significant solo presentations at numerous museums including the Pasadena Art Museum (1967); Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (1976); Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (1980); Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (1984); Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (1985–86); and Institut Valencià d’Art Modern
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(2004–05). In 2013, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art and The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, jointly presented a three-venue survey of Turrell’s work. LACMA’s retrospective later traveled to the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, and the Israel Museum, Jerusalem. In 2015, Houghton Hall, Norfolk, United Kingdom, presented an exhibition of its extensive holdings of Turrell’s work, and the artist’s first Skyspace in Mexico opened in Jardín Botánico Culiacán in Sinaloa. His work is included in more than ninety international public collections. Turrell’s numerous awards include a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship (1984); in November 2015, he was the honoree at LACMA’s 2015 Art + Film Gala. About Pace Gallery: Pace is a leading contemporary art gallery representing many of the most significant international artists and estates of the 20th and 21st centuries. Founded by Arne Glimcher in Boston in 1960 and led by Marc Glimcher, Pace has been a constant, vital force in the art world and has introduced many renowned artists’ work to the public for the first time. Over the past five decades, the gallery has mounted more than 800 exhibitions, including scholarly shows that have subsequently traveled to museums, and has published over 400 exhibition catalogues. Today, Pace has eleven locations worldwide: four galleries in New York, two in London, a 25,000 square-foot gallery in Beijing, and exhibition spaces in Hong Kong, Paris, Palo Alto and Menlo Park, California. www.pacegallery.com
Image: James Turrell, Pelée, 2014, Wide glass, 85-13/16 x 159-7/16 x 19-11/16", Photograph by Florian Holzherr © James Turrell, courtesy Pace Gallery
For press inquiries, please contact: Florie Hutchinson, +1 415 515 4696 or [email protected]. Follow Pace on Facebook (facebook.com/pacegallery), Twitter (twitter.com/pacegallery) and Instagram (instagram.com/pacegallery)
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James Turrell 229 Hamilton Avenue, Palo Alto, CA April 28 – August 28, 2016 Opening Reception: Wednesday, April 27, 4–7 p.m. Palo Alto, CA — Pace Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of their permanent gallery in Palo Alto. with an exhibition of work by James Turrell on view from April 28 to August 28, 2016. The inaugural exhibition features the Reflective Hologram and Wide Glass Series. A public opening reception will be held on Wednesday, April 27 from 4 to 7 p.m. This exhibition exemplifies James Turrell’s ongoing investigation of color, light, perception and space through his works, Pelée (2014), a site-specific Wide Glass installation, as well as a series of Reflective Holograms. In Pelée, Turrell uses a wall of LED light tiles generated by a computer program. The light changes are subtle and hypnotic—one color morphs into the next with hues of blue evolving into green and purple. The program runs on a loop, transfixing the viewer. Utilizing holographic film with glass, the Reflective Hologram works appear to hold a fragment of light and represent Turrell’s smallest holograms, functioning solely through the reflection of light. “Pace has had the honor of championing James Turrell’s work for nearly 50 years. His formidable practice and tireless commitment to exploring technological possibilities combined with sensory dimensions remains one of the most compelling today. We are thrilled to open Pace’s first permanent site in the heart of Silicon Valley with one of our most beloved and original risk takers,” comments Elizabeth Sullivan, President of Pace Palo Alto. Spanning 3,200ft2, the new Palo Alto location marks Pace Gallery’s first permanent site on the West Coast and its second site in the San Francisco Bay Area, complementing the temporary 20,000ft2 Menlo Park space that currently anchors Pace Gallery’s Art + Technology program. Pace Palo Alto is located in the heart of downtown Palo Alto, on the ground floor of the iconic Art Deco Cardinal Hotel, and minutes away from the Stanford University campus. The gallery’s design and construction will be overseen by Los Angeles-based Matthew Sullivan of AQQ Design. About James Turrell: James Turrell (b. 1943, Los Angeles) has been the subject of significant solo presentations at numerous museums including the Pasadena Art Museum (1967); Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (1976); Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (1980); Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (1984); Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (1985–86); and Institut Valencià d’Art Modern
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(2004–05). In 2013, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art and The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, jointly presented a three-venue survey of Turrell’s work. LACMA’s retrospective later traveled to the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, and the Israel Museum, Jerusalem. In 2015, Houghton Hall, Norfolk, United Kingdom, presented an exhibition of its extensive holdings of Turrell’s work, and the artist’s first Skyspace in Mexico opened in Jardín Botánico Culiacán in Sinaloa. His work is included in more than ninety international public collections. Turrell’s numerous awards include a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship (1984); in November 2015, he was the honoree at LACMA’s 2015 Art + Film Gala. About Pace Gallery: Pace is a leading contemporary art gallery representing many of the most significant international artists and estates of the 20th and 21st centuries. Founded by Arne Glimcher in Boston in 1960 and led by Marc Glimcher, Pace has been a constant, vital force in the art world and has introduced many renowned artists’ work to the public for the first time. Over the past five decades, the gallery has mounted more than 800 exhibitions, including scholarly shows that have subsequently traveled to museums, and has published over 400 exhibition catalogues. Today, Pace has eleven locations worldwide: four galleries in New York, two in London, a 25,000 square-foot gallery in Beijing, and exhibition spaces in Hong Kong, Paris, Palo Alto and Menlo Park, California. www.pacegallery.com
Image: James Turrell, Pelée, 2014, Wide glass, 85-13/16 x 159-7/16 x 19-11/16", Photograph by Florian Holzherr © James Turrell, courtesy Pace Gallery
For press inquiries, please contact: Florie Hutchinson, +1 415 515 4696 or [email protected]. Follow Pace on Facebook (facebook.com/pacegallery), Twitter (twitter.com/pacegallery) and Instagram (instagram.com/pacegallery)
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