Midcity, Los Angeles
Arlene Shechet
Big Sister
Pace GalleryPace presents Arlene Shechet's new sculpture Big Sister (2025) in the courtyard of its Los Angeles gallery. This vibrant painted aluminum work is the first outdoor sculpture that the artist exhibits since her critically acclaimed 2024 presentation Girl Group at Storm King Art Center in New York. As part of the debut of Big Sister (2025), Shechet is joined in conversation by artist David Salle and Stephanie Barron, Senior Curator and Department Head of Modern Art at LACMA, on Saturday, February 28 at Pace Los Angeles. This event—presented by Pace and LACMA's Modern and Contemporary Art Council—runs from 10:30 a.m. to 12 p.m. Arlene Shechet is a sculptor known for her effortless combination of disparate elements, precarious and provisional arrangements, and boundary-collapsing visual paradoxes. With gravity-defying work that seems to tilt, contort, bend, and melt, Shechet's sculptures appear to be set in motion while unearthing the expressive potential of material and forms and forcing us to sit with—and move around—its contradictions.