Installation view of Frame of Mind by Pam Evelyn

Pam Evelyn

Frame of Mind

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Nov 8 – Dec 21, 2024
New York
 
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Pam Evelyn
Frame of Mind
Nov 8 – Dec 21, 2024

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510 West 25th Street
New York

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Above: Installation view, Pam Evelyn: Frame of Mind, Pace Gallery, New York, Nov 8 – Dec 21, 2024 © Pam Evelyn
Pace is pleased to present an exhibition of new, large-scale paintings by Pam Evelyn at its 510 West 25th Street gallery in New York.

Running from November 8 to December 21, the show, titled Frame of Mind, will spotlight works created by the artist during her recent residency in Cornwall, England. Marking Evelyn’s first-ever solo exhibition in the United States, this presentation will be accompanied by a new catalog from Pace Publishing, featuring an essay by art historian and curator Yuval Etgar.

Evelyn, who lives and works in London, is known for her expansive, abstract canvases that are densely layered, richly textured meditations on nature, the body, and materiality. Through her intuitive approach, the artist brings her complex compositions to life. Working in an array of scales and multi-panel formats, she imbues her paintings with emotional and psychological resonances, creating works that reflect the landscapes and textures of her inner world. She joined Pace’s program in 2023, and her works can be found in the collections of the Zabludowicz Collection in the English capital and the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo in Turin, Italy.

In Frame of Mind, Evelyn’s first solo show in New York, she will present nine paintings—including four monumental diptychs measuring some 16 feet wide—that she made this year in Cornwall. Physically removed from London’s frenetic energy, she spent several months completely alone with her work in an intense but also meditative state of focus. For Evelyn, time seemed to slow down during this period of isolation, and the paintings she produced simultaneously over the last year are fundamentally linked while entirely idiosyncratic. She built up these works as part of a rigorous physical process of layering and scraping paint and rearticulating forms, approaching each painting as a malleable, living being with no preordained contents or conclusion.

Moving fluidly between the elemental, the emotional, and the material in making these new paintings, Evelyn has made her most psychologically involved body of work yet. Rather than drawing direct inspiration from the Cornish landscape in which she was living, the artist used her natural surroundings to think through her work in the studio. Her resulting paintings, as her upcoming exhibition’s title suggests, are more “mindscapes” than landscapes, reflections of her own state of being.

Evelyn’s deep and nuanced engagement with art history is also evident in the paintings she will show in New York. In particular, the works of El Greco and Milton Avery were on her mind, especially as she worked to translate fleeting moments in the natural world into her compositions in a conceptual way, using the surrounding Cornish landscape as a space to pose questions about how painting is made.

 
Films

When Painting Becomes Alive: Pam Evelyn on Her Latest Body of Work

Pam Evelyn discusses the psychological and emotional resonances of mark making, delving into the ways painting can reflect one's state of being.

 
 

Featured Works

Pam Evelyn, Mourning Greys, 2024, oil on linen, 200 cm × 500 cm (78-3/4" × 16' 4-7/8"), overall 200 cm × 250 cm (78-3/4" × 8' 2-7/16"), each panel
Pam Evelyn, Curtain for Parade, 2024, oil on linen, 200 cm × 500 cm (78-3/4" × 16' 4-7/8"), overall 200 cm × 250 cm (78-3/4" × 8' 2-7/16"), each panel
Pam Evelyn, Habit Pattern, 2024, oil on linen, 200 cm × 500 cm (78-3/4" × 16' 4-7/8"), overall 200 cm × 250 cm (78-3/4" × 8' 2-7/16"), each panel
Pam Evelyn, Bigger Picture, 2024, oil on linen, 130 cm × 200 cm (51-3/16" × 78-3/4"), overall 130 cm × 100 cm (51-3/16" × 39-3/8"), each panel
 

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