Pace Gallery has revealed details about the 11 artworks being auctioned by Sotheby’s at an upcoming benefit in support of the preservation project for the childhood home of Nina Simone. The artworks were co-curated by artist Adam Pendleton as well as tennis champion, entrepreneur and arts patron Venue Williams. The benefit gala at the gallery’s flagship New York location will include a live performance by H.E.R. and a ticketed dinner catered by JJ Johnson, a James Beard Foundation Award–winning chef.
“Each of the artists Adam and I have selected for the auction has a unique, powerful voice, and we’ve been moved by their generosity and enthusiasm for this important cause,” Williams previously said in a statement. “It’s been a privilege to collaborate with Adam in curating the auction.”
The artists who have donated work to the benefit auction include Cecily Brown, whose solo exhibition is currently taking place at the Metropolitan Museum of Art util December 3, and Sarah Sze, whose solo show is at the Guggenheim Museum until September 10.
“I’m donating to this important cause my large-scale charcoal drawing Untitled (Nina), which not only references the Black Panther Party but also represents the power of an endangered yet resilient spirit,” artist Robert Longo said in a statement.
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Sarah Sze
Image Credit: © Sarah Sze, Courtesy Sarah Sze. Photo Credit: Sarah Sze Studio Spell, 2023
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Adam Pendleton
Image Credit: © Adam Pendleton, courtesy Pace Gallery Untitled (Days), 2023
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Mary Weatherford
Image Credit: © Mary Weatherford. Courtesy the artist. Photography: Fredrik Nilsen Studio. Butterflies and Moths, 2023
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Cecily Brown
Image Credit: © Cecily Brown. Courtesy: Cecily Brown and Paula Cooper Gallery. Photo: Genevieve Hanson. Runaway, 2021
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Stanley Whitney
Image Credit: Courtesy of the artist Nina in the Sky with Diamonds, 2023,
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Rashid Johnson
Image Credit: © Rashid Johnson, Courtesy of Rashid Johnson. Photographer: Stephanie Powell Bruise Painting “Nina’s Blues”, 2023
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Ellen Gallagher
Image Credit: © Ellen Gallagher. Courtesy Gagosian. Abu Simbel, 2005
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Martin Puryear
Image Credit: © Martin Puryear, courtesy Matthew Marks Gallery Untitled V, 2005
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Anicka Yi
Image Credit: © 2023 Anicka Yi / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: David Regen, courtesy of Gladstone Gallery The Mother Tongue, 2022
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Robert Longo
Image Credit: © Robert Longo Studio, courtesy Pace Gallery Untitled (Nina), 2021
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Julie Mehretu
Image Credit: © Julie Mehretu. Courtesy of the artist and Marian Goodman Gallery. Photo Credit: Tom Powel Imaging New Dawn, Sing (for Nina), 2023