Lehmann Maupin presents an exhibition of works by Helen Pashgian, opening in the gallery’s seasonal Palm Beach location on December 15. The season marks the gallery’s third consecutive year of programming in Palm Beach, which will feature a series of solo exhibitions running through mid-November through May 2023.

An early pioneer of the Light and Space movement, Pashgian has produced numerous sculptural series composed of vibrantly colored columns, discs, and spheres that often feature an isolated element that appears suspended, embedded, or encased within the larger sculpture. Using an innovative application of industrial epoxies, plastics, and resins, Pashgian’s works are characterized by their semi-translucent surfaces that appear to both filter and contain light. Pashgian understands each of her works as a “presence” in space which does not reveal everything at once; one must move around her sculptures to observe changes, evoking a phenomenon of constant movement. Each sculpture, along with the objects suggested within, seems to come and go, appear and disappear, approach and recede.