Works by alumni from the Institute’s predecessor, Chouinard Art Institute, are on view this summer at Pace Gallery in Los Angeles: an exhibition of works by Robert Irwin (Chouinard 54, former Chouinard faculty), followed by a solo show for Mary Corse (Chouinard 68).
Through June 7, catch Robert Irwin in Los Angeles, the first exhibition of Irwin’s work mounted by Pace since the artist’s death in 2023 and his first posthumous presentation in California. From Pace Gallery:
Among the works on view will be major paintings from Irwin’s early Line and Dot series of the mid-1960s, in which he pushed the medium to new conceptual territories. These works will be in dialogue with his celebrated Discs of the late 1960s, which further obscured the boundaries between the physical and the sensory. The exhibition will also include a rare, twelve-foot-tall acrylic column that appears like a ripple in space—this sculpture is among the last physical objects that Irwin made before turning toward an entirely ephemeral and installation-based practice in the 1970s.
Following Irwin’s show at the LA gallery is Mary Corse, running from June 21 to Aug. 16. Mary Corse includes never-before-exhibited pieces produced this year, including a suite of the artist’s newest Diamond paintings, marking a continuation of the diamond-shaped canvases she first created in 1965. Also on view is Corse’s latest architectural installation, Halo Room, described further in the official press release:
This work, which will be installed in the Los Angeles gallery’s outdoor courtyard, offers a participatory, intimate experience of scale, space, and light. When a viewer enters the room, they encounter a white light painting and as they approach the painting the resulting effect produces a glowing halo around the viewer’s shadow, registering their presence but also incorporating it into the painting itself.
Corse and Irwin are monumental figures of the California Light and Space movement. In 2023, they were both featured in the joint exhibition Robert Irwin + Mary Corse: Parallax at Pace Gallery in London.
