Sunday, January 31, 2027 at 1:00 PM to Tuesday, March 28, 2028 at 1:00 PM
Pace Gallery, Los Angeles
Marking her first solo show with Pace since joining the gallery in 2025, this body of work foregrounds a decisive and self-imposed rupture in Quin’s practice since her 2024 exhibition at 125 Newbury in New York. In these new paintings, Quin has turned from an “overdose” of chromatic intensity toward what she describes as a “detox of color.” Through this reduction, Quin short-circuits the associative, emotional, and referential powers of color. Formally, Quin’s compositions are assemblages, stitched together from previous bodies of work, temporally fragmented and sutured. In each painting, she collages motifs, symbols, and spatial logics into new unities held taut between stability and collapse. The result is a kind of internal yet inscrutable language that emerges across her oeuvre, an esoteric mode of meaning-making that feels almost mystical. Quin calls this “superstitious abstraction,” an approach guided by the search for moments of synchronicity and serendipity, which then suggest the next step in the chain of formal invention.Titled Eyelets of Alkaline, the exhibition will remain on view through March 28 and coincide with the 2026 edition of Frieze Los Angeles. It will also be accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue from Pace Publishing—available here—featuring a new text by the poet, playwright, and essayist Ariana Reines.