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Helen Pashgian — Untitled
Helen Pashgian

Untitled

2009

This luminous cast epoxy disc embodies the radical materialist vision that has defined Helen Pashgian's practice for more than half a century. Measuring approximately thirty centimeters square and just over three centimeters deep, the work belongs to her celebrated series of cast resin and epoxy objects, in which light is not merely reflected from a surface but seems to emanate from deep within the form itself. Pashgian achieves this effect through painstaking layering and curing processes that trap and diffuse illumination across the translucent interior, producing an optical phenomenon that shifts with the viewer's position and the quality of ambient light. The result is an object that occupies the threshold between sculpture and pure perception. Pashgian was a pioneering figure of the Light and Space movement that emerged from Southern California in the 1960s, working alongside artists such as Larry Bell, Robert Irwin, and James Turrell, yet her work has long maintained a quietly singular character. Where many of her peers pursued architectural scale and environmental immersion, she concentrated on intimate, rigorously crafted objects whose scale paradoxically amplifies their perceptual intensity. This 2009 work, realized well into her mature period, demonstrates an undiminished command of the medium and a continued commitment to investigating how form, material, and light can be synthesized into a single, unified phenomenon. The piece is signed and offered with a digital certificate of authenticity issued by TOTAH, New York, providing clear provenance for the collector. Works by Pashgian of this caliber appear infrequently on the market, and her growing institutional recognition, including a major retrospective at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, has substantially elevated both critical and collector interest in her output.

Medium
Cast epoxy
Overall
Signed
Yes

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Helen Pashgian, Untitled, 2009

This luminous cast epoxy disc embodies the radical materialist vision that has defined Helen Pashgian's practice for more than half a century. Measuring approximately thirty centimeters square and just over three centimeters deep, the work belongs to her celebrated series of cast resin and epoxy objects, in which light is not merely reflected from a surface but seems to emanate from deep within the form itself. Pashgian achieves this effect through painstaking layering and curing processes that trap and diffuse illumination across the translucent interior, producing an optical phenomenon that shifts with the viewer's position and the quality of ambient light. The result is an object that occupies the threshold between sculpture and pure perception. Pashgian was a pioneering figure of the Light and Space movement that emerged from Southern California in the 1960s, working alongside artists such as Larry Bell, Robert Irwin, and James Turrell, yet her work has long maintained a quietly singular character. Where many of her peers pursued architectural scale and environmental immersion, she concentrated on intimate, rigorously crafted objects whose scale paradoxically amplifies their perceptual intensity. This 2009 work, realized well into her mature period, demonstrates an undiminished command of the medium and a continued commitment to investigating how form, material, and light can be synthesized into a single, unified phenomenon. The piece is signed and offered with a digital certificate of authenticity issued by TOTAH, New York, providing clear provenance for the collector. Works by Pashgian of this caliber appear infrequently on the market, and her growing institutional recognition, including a major retrospective at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, has substantially elevated both critical and collector interest in her output.

Medium
Cast epoxy
Dimensions
overall: 30.5 x 30.5 x 3.2 cm
Year
2009
Signed
Hand-signed by the artist
Seen at
Rago/Wright/LAMA/Toomey & Co.

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