Pat Lasch
Art Basel Miami Beach
December 2nd – 6th, 2026
Miami Beach Convention Center
1901 Convention Center Drive, Miami Beach, FL 33139
Storage is pleased to participate in Art Basel Miami Beach with a solo presentation of new works by Pat Lasch (b. 1944, New York), an American artist whose six-decade practice explores the self in relation to death, sexuality, interpersonal relationships, and family. Through sculptural forms such as cakes, ceremonial dresses, and sewn tondos, Lasch reclaims the languages of decoration and domestic labor to critique cultural structures. Her practice is particularly transformative today, exposing how ideals of beauty and womanhood can function not only as instruments of social control but also as powerful expressions of self.
For Raphael’s Love for the Baker’s Daughter (2026), Lasch brings together more than 500 unique petit four sculptures in an expansive composition spanning three walls. The title references Raphael’s La Fornarina (The Baker’s Daughter) (c. 1520), a painting whose subject historians have traditionally identified as Margherita Luti, Raphael’s lover. In 1982, Lasch walked past the building in Rome where Raphael is said to have courted Luti and imagined their life together and the pastries they might have shared, marking moments of joy and sorrow. Through this installation, Lasch connects the romantic mythology to the significance of cakes in marking life’s milestones, reflecting on how these familiar objects become witnesses to the passage of time and the unfolding of personal histories.
Blessed (2026) and Guardian Angel (2026) took over ten years to complete. Through these works, Lasch connects individual histories of suffering to broader patterns of gendered power, demonstrating how women’s experiences have been shaped, disciplined, and frequently erased across historical periods. The works’ ornate surfaces and painstaking construction draw the viewer toward beauty while inviting a deeper encounter with the pain, resilience, and complexity embedded within it. Their transformative force lies in this contradiction: materials and forms associated with feminine idealization become vehicles for exposing the patriarchal conditions that produce and police those ideals.
Pat Lasch (b. 1944, New York) is a sculptor living and working in New York and California. She received a B.A. at Queens College, City University of New York, where her teachers included Richard Serra and Richard McDermott Miller. In the 1970s, Lasch became an early member of A.I.R. Gallery, the pioneering feminist artist-run cooperative in New York, where she exhibited for over a decade. Lasch has combined her life as a working artist with teaching at leading art schools, including Parsons and Rhode Island School of Design. She was appointed as the first female Professor of Sculpture at University of Massachusetts Amherst, where she taught for more than twenty years. Lasch earned her M.F.A. from Georgia State University in 1990.
In 1982, Lasch received the Rome Prize. Lasch’s work is included in major public collections such as The Metropolitan Museum of Art and The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C., and The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Lasch was included in the historic 1972 13 Women Artists exhibition at A.I.R. Gallery amongst artists including Louise Bourgeois, Mary Miss, Alice Adams, and Kazuko. She has been the subject of monographic exhibitions, including Journeys of the Heart at Palm Springs Art Museum, which surveyed over four decades of her practice. Lasch is the recipient of the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, Yaddo Residency, and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts. Lasch has been in exhibitions at the SculptureCenter and P.S. 1 (now MoMA PS1) in New York, and was included in the influential Bad Girls show of feminist-inspired art at the New Museum in 1994.