Pace Live

Of Time and Material

Katy Hessel, Torkwase Dyson, Nora Lawrence, and Sarita Dubin in Conversation

Thursday, October 22, 2026
6:30 – 8 PM
540 West 25th Street
New York

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Thursday, October 22, 2026
6:30 – 8 PM
Doors at 6 PM
540 West 25th Street
New York

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In celebration of the exhibitions Arlene Shechet: She Said She Said, Torkwase Dyson: Seeing in Blue, and Lynda Benglis: KNOTTING, TYING, FOLDING, Torkwase Dyson, Nora Lawrence, and Sarita Dubin will participate in a conversation moderated by Katy Hessel on Thursday, October 22.

Set on the gallery’s seventh floor, the conversation will center around each artist’s groundbreaking practice and the ways in which their works—from Benglis’s gestural forms to Shechet’s inventive sculptures and Dyson’s multivalent paintings—speak to one another across time and mediums. Hessel, creator of (opens in a new window) @thegreatwomenartists Instagram and podcast and author of the book The Story of Art Without Men (2023), will moderate.

Katy Hessel

Katy Hessel is an art historian and author of The Story of Art without Men (2022), a Sunday Times and New York Times Bestseller (should this be in italics??), and the winner of Waterstones Book of the Year 2022; How To Live An Artful Life(2025) featuring a quote by an artist or writer for every day of the year; and The Story of Art without Men: An illustrated guide to amazing women artists (2026), her first children's book. She runs @thegreatwomenartists, an Instagram account that has celebrated women artists since 2015, and writes a regular column for The Guardian.

Hessel hosts The Great Women Artists Podcast, where she has interviewed 160+ artists and writers, including Marina Abramović, Tracey Emin, Ali Smith, Barbara Kruger, Hilton Als, Elif Shafak, and more; Death of an Artist: Krasner and Pollock, a series about the legacy of Lee Krasner; and Dior Talks – Feminist Art. In 2024, she launched Museums Without Men, an audio series highlighting works by women and gender non-conforming artists in museum collections worldwide, including The Met, Tate Britain, Hirshhorn, and more.

She is a Visiting Fellow at Murray Edwards College, University of Cambridge; a Trustee at Charleston Trust; an alumna of Forbes's 30 Under 30 2021; and a Contributing Editor at Harper's Bazaar. Hessel has lectured at The Guggenheim, MFA Boston, Tate, The National Gallery, Courtauld; presented films for the BBC, Tate, Royal Academy; and is a regular contributor to BBC Radio 3 and 4. She has written and presented arts documentaries for the BBC, such as Artemisia Gentileschi (2020) and Art on the BBC: Monet (2022). She has curated exhibitions at Victoria Miro Gallery, Kasmin Gallery, Stephen Friedman Gallery; once took over a floor of Tate Modern; and has been running the annual The Great Women Artists Residency at Palazzo Monti since 2018.

Torkwase Dyson

Torkwase Dyson describes herself as a painter working across multiple mediums to explore the continuity between ecology, infrastructure, and architecture. Examining the history and future of black spatial liberation strategies, Dyson’s abstract works grapple with the ways in which space is perceived and negotiated, particularly by black and brown bodies. The artist has distilled a vocabulary of poetic forms to address the spaciousness of freedom and question what type of climates are born out of world building.

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Nora Lawrence

Nora Lawrence is the Executive Director of Storm King Art Center, a 500-acre outdoor museum known for monumental sculpture and transformative site-specific commissions.

Under her leadership, Storm King has strengthened its position as an internationally acclaimed institution at the forefront of contemporary art and landscape. She has collaborated with leading artists, including Wangechi Mutu, Rashid Johnson, Arlene Shechet, Lynda Benglis, Sarah Sze, Martin Puryear, and Anicka Yi.

Lawrence is a Visiting Critic for Columbia University’s MFA program, a 2024 Center for Curatorial Leadership Fellow, a 2026–27 Michael D. Eisner Arts & Culture Fellow, and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.

Sarita Dubin

Sarita Dubin has worked closely with artist Lynda Benglis off and on since the early 90s. She resumed full-time work with Benglis in 2013. She holds a Master’s degree in Art History from the University of Chicago and has served as a docent at the Whitney Museum of American Art since 2009. Her longstanding engagement with Benglis’s practice, combined with her academic background and museum experience, informs her work supporting the artist’s career and legacy.