Kylie Manning, Emmelyn Butterfield-Rosen, and Xin Wang

Pace Live

Kylie Manning In Conversation with Emmelyn Butterfield-Rosen

Moderated by Xin Wang

Wednesday, Apr 16
6:30 – 8 PM EDT
510 West 25th Street
New York

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Kylie Manning In Conversation with Emmelyn Butterfield-Rosen, Moderated by Xin Wang
Wednesday, Apr 16
6:30 – 8 PM EDT
510 West 25th Street
New York

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On the occasion of her solo debut at Pace Gallery in New York, join Kylie Manning and art historian Emmelyn Butterfield-Rosen, Assistant Professor of Nineteenth-Century European Art at NYU's Institute of Fine Arts and author of Modern Art & the Remaking of Human Disposition, for a wide-ranging conversation on the artist’s unique approach to medium, movement, and time, presented by Pace Live and moderated by the gallery's Curatorial Director Xin Wang.

Manning’s exhibition, There is something that stays, comprises paintings forged in local minerals—tourmaline, calcite, and quartz—that pulse with the energy of the city and its people. Key to this body of work are personal and universal experiences of time, its rapidness and inevitability, which speak as much to the history and aspiration of painting as to Manning’s life as a new mother.

Kylie Manning

Kylie Manning is a mid-career painter based in Brooklyn, New York. Her work is heavily informed by the atmospheres, latitudes, and colors present in the various geographies of her childhood. Using brushwork, light, and balance, the artist captures moments within her personal history, such as her time working on Alaskan fishing boats and memories of surfing in Mexico. Through her practice, Manning re-contextualizes the concept of traditionally gendered “masterpieces" with an eye toward contemporary feminism, and her visual lexicon is as much in conversation with J.M.W. Turner and Frans Hals as it is Ruth Asawa and Berthe Morisot.

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Emmelyn Butterfield-Rosen

Emmelyn Butterfield-Rosen is Assistant Professor of Nineteenth-Century European Art at the Institute of Fine Arts, and author of Modern Art & the Remaking of Human Disposition (University of Chicago Press, 2021).

Xin Wang

Xin Wang is a New York-based art historian and Curatorial Director at Pace Gallery. Currently finishing a PhD dissertation on Soviet Hauntology at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, she held curatorial and educational positions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and The Whitney Museum of American Art, and received the Warhol Foundation’s Arts Writers Grant in 2021. Publications such as “Asian Futurism and the Non-Other” have been widely circulated, translated and taught in university curriculums. An appointed faculty at Yale University’s MFA program in Photography since 2021, she served as the curator of the 4th art and technology themed biennial program—titled “To Your Eternity”—at Beijing’s Today Art Museum in fall 2023. Her upcoming publications include “Machine Envy” in the book Machine Decision is Not Final: China and the History and Future of Artificial Intelligence (Urbanomic and NYU Shanghai), and “Dance as Socialist World-Building” in Afterall Journal (issue 57).