Since its founding in 1960, Pace Gallery has always held innovation as the core principle that dictates which artists and exhibitions the gallery curates. Over the past seven decades, a number of legendary figures have filled its halls, from Sol Lewitt, Hank Willis Thomas and Lee Ufan to Mary Corse, Agnes Martin and James Turrell. British painter Pam Evelyn is the latest to join the list and will be the youngest ever to do so.
At just 27 years of age, Evelyn only received her master’s degree last year from London’s Royal College of Art, but has quickly ascended up the fine art world like few others in recent memory through a visceral approach to abstract painting that is rooted in “instinct and impulse,” as she’s previously stated in the past.
Evelyn’s process is anything but linear, as she goes through intense periods of applying and removing oil paint, where the composition only comes into focus after months of careful deliberation. “Instead of dictating what the painting should be, I place myself in a position where the painting tells me where it’s going and I have to react,” said the artist in a release. “For me it’s a very surprising way of making a painting and I like the challenge, I like the unexpected.”
Pace will present Evelyn’s first solo exhibition with the gallery, A Handful of Dust, across two floors at its London outpost from September 6 to 30.
Elsewhere, Jeffrey Gibson to represent the U.S. pavilion at the 2024 Venice Biennale.
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