International mega-gallery Pace has announced a ‘union’ with local Los Angeles gallery Kayne Griffin. Pace’s CEO and president Marc Glimcher issued a statement alongside Maggie Kayne and Bill Griffin to confirm that the LA space would become Pace’s next outpost and flagship gallery on the West Coast. This latest space joins Pace’s growing list of galleries around the world in New York, London, Hong Kong, Seoul, Geneva, Palo Alto, East Hampton and Palm Beach. Kayne and Griffin, already having had a successful working relationship with Pace for five years in collaborations on exhibitions showing works by James Turrell, Jo Baer, Mary Corse, Agnes Martin and Louise Nevelson, will remain as stewards of the new LA space working to develop Pace’s diverse channels, including its public events programme ‘Pace Live’. Pace LA will open in April 2022.
Over on the East Coast, Pace’s New York curator and initiator of ‘Pace Live’ Andria Hickey leaves the gallery to take up the role of chief curator at interdisciplinary arts space The Shed. She takes over from Emma Enderby who during her time oversaw collaborations, exhibitions and performances with artists including Kameelah Janan Rasheed, Björk, Trisha Donnelly, Agnes Denes, Howardena Pindell, Ian Cheng and more. Prior to working as curator at Pace, Hickey held curatorial positions at the Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, Ohio, Public Art Fund and Art In General, both New York, and the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis. In a statement on her appointment, The Shed’s CEO Alex Poots has said: Poots said, ‘Andria brings over 15 years of curatorial experience working in a wide range of contemporary art institutions… Most importantly, she brings a deep commitment to supporting a diverse span of artists at all stages of their careers as they move culture in new directions.’
For her own part, Hickey has said: ‘Now more than ever, the interdisciplinary nature of cultural spaces like The Shed offer artists an opportunity to collaborate and experiment in ways that reveal who we are, where we are going, and why culture is a guiding force in our lives today.’
