NYAB Event - Stephen Pace "Seven Decades (1940 – 2000): Made in America, Paintings and Watercolors"

Stephen Pace "Seven Decades (1940 – 2000): Made in America, Paintings and Watercolors"

Katharina Rich Perlow Gallery

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During his early years, Pace began developing his sense of abstraction while painting in Mexico in the 1940s. Arriving in New York City in the late 1940s, deeply impressed by his experiences from the Second World War, the artist immersed himself in the New York School of Abstract Expressionists. Having spent 4 years in the service, Pace’s paintings contained a sense of urgency and a need for action and self-definition. In the 1960s, Pace exchanged his abstract touches for a return to realist/expressionist rural themes, paying homage to his childhood in Indiana. These rural landscapes of his second phase emerged so naturally that it seemed as if it had been buried in his abstract work all along. Soon after, Pace was introduced to Maine, where he painted the world of fishermen, which was to become his trademark along with galloping Horse and Nude paintings. The body of work produced by Pace in these decades is connected to the American experience and the duality between urban and rural which, for him, translated into a knowledge of the artistic traditions and the experimental art of his time. Pace continued to paint in Maine until 2007, when he and his wife retired to his hometown in Southern Indiana, where he first studied art. A celebrated artist, Pace is still painting at the age of ninety.

[Image: Stephen S. Pace "Untitled #52-14" (1952) oil on canvas 48 x 32 in.]