Exhibition Information

			Pace’s presentation, curated across two floors of the gallery, will feature three monumental primary color paintings by Corse, along with works from her White Inner Band series. It will also include two of the artist’s iconic lightbox installations, wirelessly powered by high-frequency Tesla coils and originally conceived in the 1960s.
Mary Corse has earned critical distinction through her unique approach to painting. Through her works, the artist maintains a dialogue with viewers about the metaphysical experience of being. Corse’s investigations in light and painting have led to a radical innovation of a the medium. In the late 1960s, Corse, searching for a way to put light into her paintings, experienced an epiphanic encounter during a sunset drive on Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu, where she noticed the road markings were progressively illuminated by headlights as she drove along. This sparked her interest in industrial glass microspheres—a material used to enhance visibility of road signage. In 1968, Corse started applying these microspheres on the canvases of her White Light paintings. For over six decades, Corse has favored a highly tactile and empirical approach to art making, resulting in her lightboxes and large-scale geometric abstractions on canvases of various dimensions and shapes. Corse’s fluid transposition across different mediums creates a state of flux. Her practice is defined by a discursive pattern in which she often returns to earlier series and builds on them. Corse’s oeuvre retains the formal qualities of her initial experimentations in light while challenging the affective resonance of her work in each iteration.
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