Pace Live: Joel Shapiro & Phong H. Bui in Conversation

Pace Live is pleased to present “In Conversation: Joel Shapiro and Phong H. Bui, Publisher & Artistic Director of the Brooklyn Rail” on Saturday, October 26 at the gallery’s 540 West 25th Street space in New York. 

On the occasion of Joel Shapiro: Out of the Blue, the artist’s first solo show with Pace in New York since 2014, this talk will explore sculpture’s ability to alter one’s sense of space and scale while offering a vibrant glimpse of Shapiro’s practice, distinguished by its dynamism, complexity, and formal elegance. 

Phong H. Bui is an artist, writer, independent curator, and Co-Founder and Publisher/Artistic Director of the Brooklyn Rail, Rail Editions, River Rail and Rail Curatorial Projects. Bui has organized more than ninety exhibitions since 2000, and is a Board Member of International Association of Art Critics (2007-2019), Anthology Film Archives (2017-2023), Denniston Hill, Fountain House, Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, Monira Foundation, Second Shift Studio Space St. Paul, Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program, Studio in a School, the Third Rail, and the Center for Fiction.

Joel Shapiro has produced a body of work ranging in material, scale, and form that embraces an investigation of process and a vocabulary of rectilinear shapes. Emerging from the Postminimalist generation of the 1970s, his practice developed during a time of institutional critique, deconstruction, and urban intervention. Subverting a distinction between abstraction and representation, Shapiro reconsiders the modern figurative tradition, creating abstract geometric sculpture. He elicits a sense of movement in his works, which, through the arrangement of simplified elements, are powerfully suggestive of active human forms that appear to reach, balance, and dance, engaging viewers’ physical and psychological relationships with space.

Event Details:

Saturday, October 26

12:30 – 1:30PM

Doors Open at 12:00 PM

Location:

Pace Gallery

Seventh Floor

540 W 25th St,

New York, NY 10001

Joel Shapiro: Out of the Blue is on view in New York through October 26.

Host or Publisher Pace Gallery