Anthony Akinbola, Black piece CAMOUFLAGE #005 (Rick James), 2021, durags, acrylic on wood panel, 96" × 96" × 3" (243.8 cm × 243.8 cm × 7.6 cm) © Anthony Akinbola Convergent Evolutions In Focus Pace is pleased to present Convergent Evolutions: In Focus, a digital exhibition featuring a curated selection of online exclusive artworks and works included in the physical iteration of the show at the gallery’s 508-510 West 25th Street space in New York, now on view through October 23.Convergent Evolutions: The Conscious of Body Work explores how intergenerational artists have used various instruments within their practices to grant or deny viewers the agency of viewership while also surveying the body’s response to the visual plane. Central to the presentation are the artists’ abilities to manipulate the ways that viewers interact with and experience their works. The show takes its title from a scientific term that refers to the development of similar traits in species belonging to different time periods.Marking the curatorial debut of Pace’s Online Sales Director Christiana Ine-Kimba Boyle, the exhibition brings together emerging and established artists from within and beyond the gallery’s program, featuring works by Anthony Akinbola, Caitlin Cherry, Sam Gilliam, Sonia Gomes, Kylie Manning, RJ Messineo, Chibuike Uzoma, Rachel Eulena Williams, and others.Two newly minted NFTs derived from Lucas Samaras’s XYZ series, XYZ 0862 (Chinoiserie) and XYZ 0879 (Chinoiserie), figure in this iteration of the In Focus online viewing room series. The unveiling of these works, which are the first of their kind by Samaras, consists of a digital component and an 11x17 inch physical print. The works are dated 2012/2021 to reflect their original format and later transformation into NFTs. Ownership of each XYZ NFT 1:1 edition will whitelist holders for the second Samaras NFT drop on Pace’s dedicated NFT platform later this fall. Online Exhibition DetailsConvergent Evolutions: In FocusSep 15 – Oct 23, 2021Exhibition DetailsConvergent Evolutions: The Conscious of Body WorkSep 10 – Oct 23, 2021 Featured ArtistsLucas SamarasCaitlin CherryRJ MessineoSam GilliamSonia GomesRachel Eulena WilliamsRichard Pousette-DartAnthony AkinbolaKylie ManningChibuike Uzoma Connect (opens in a new window) @pacegallery Lucas Samarasb. 1936, Kastoria, Macedonia, GreeceLives and works in New YorkLucas Samaras has produced an expansive body of work across media and discipline—including photography, painting, installation, assemblage, drawing, and sculpture—united by a focus on the body and psyche, and often emphasizing autobiography. Read More Lucas Samaras, XYZ 0879 (Chinoiserie), 2012/2021, non-fungible token (NFT); physical component: 11" x 17," print with exclusive QR code watermark, Edition 1 of 1 Learn More Close modal Lucas Samaras XYZ 0879 (Chinoiserie) 2012/2021 non-fungible token (NFT); physical component: 11" x 17," print with exclusive QR code watermark, Edition 1 of 1 (opens in a new window) Known Origin NFT ListingContract ID: 0x36cf31019816e9490959f75ba9164edd304de01dToken ID: 1727000 Inquire How can we reach you? First Name* Last Name* Email* Phone Inquiry Message Have you purchased from Pace before?* Yes No Submit Inquiry Or go back Lucas Samaras, XYZ 0862 (Chinoiserie), 2012/2021, still image delivered as a non-fungible token, accompanied by an archival pigment print 8-1/2" × 14" (21.6 cm × 35.6 cm), sheet 7" × 12-1/2" (17.8 cm × 31.8 cm), image 9-1/4" × 14-3/4" × 1-1/2" (23.5 cm × 37.5 cm × 3.8 cm), framed Learn More Close modal Lucas Samaras XYZ 0862 (Chinoiserie) 2012/2021 still image delivered as a non-fungible token accompanied by an archival pigment print 8-1/2" × 14" (21.6 cm × 35.6 cm), sheet 7" × 12-1/2" (17.8 cm × 31.8 cm), image 9-1/4" × 14-3/4" × 1-1/2" (23.5 cm × 37.5 cm × 3.8 cm), framed (opens in a new window) Known Origin NFT ListingContract ID: 0x36cf31019816e9490959f75ba9164edd304de01dToken ID: 1727000 Inquire How can we reach you? First Name* Last Name* Email* Phone Inquiry Message Have you purchased from Pace before?* Yes No Submit Inquiry Or go back Lucas Samaras, Serpent Green Reclining Nude, November 3, 1984, Polaroid Polacolor II assemblage, 13-7/8" x 42-1/8" (35.2 cm x 107 cm) Learn More Close modal Lucas Samaras Serpent Green Reclining Nude November 3, 1984 Polaroid Polacolor II assemblage 13-7/8" x 42-1/8" (35.2 cm x 107 cm) Inquire How can we reach you? First Name* Last Name* Email* Phone Inquiry Message Have you purchased from Pace before?* Yes No Submit Inquiry Or go back Caitlin Cherryb. 1987, Chicago, IllinoisLives and works in Richmond, Virginia Read More Caitlin Cherry, Quaternion, 2021, oil on canvas and aluminum, 4' 10" × 8' 6" × 6' (147.3 cm × 259.1 cm × 182.9 cm) Learn More Close modal View Previous View Next Carousel slide 0 Carousel slide 1 Carousel slide 2 Carousel slide 3 Carousel slide 4 Carousel slide 5 Caitlin Cherry Quaternion 2021 oil on canvas and aluminum 4' 10" × 8' 6" × 6' (147.3 cm × 259.1 cm × 182.9 cm) Inquire How can we reach you? First Name* Last Name* Email* Phone Inquiry Message Have you purchased from Pace before?* Yes No Submit Inquiry Or go back Caitlin Cherry’s multifaceted practice is comprised of painting, sculpture, and installation coalescing into articulate and alluring representations of Black femininity. Filtering these media through layers of digital manipulation, her work explores parallels between Black femme bodies, frequently commodified and positioned as sexual assets, and the seductiveness of art objects in the commercial gallery circuit. Cherry is currently Assistant Professor of Painting and Printmaking at Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, and the founder of the new online program Dark Study, a contra-institutional space for radical learning about art and theory. Her paintings have been exhibited at The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Brooklyn Museum, Performance Space, and The Studio Museum in Harlem in New York, among other notable institutions. She is a recipient of a Robert Rauschenberg Foundation Fellowship Residency and Leonore Annenberg Fellowship. Read More RJ Messineob. 1980, West Hartford, ConnecticutLives and works in Brooklyn, New YorkRJ Messineo’s work centers around observation and abstraction. Concerned with experiences living in and moving through public and interior spaces, the artist’s works implicate the body and reference landscape, the street, windows, beds, and blankets. Messineo engages a wide, and sometimes incongruous range of scale relationships, mark-making, and compositional structures to make the paintings, from expressionist gesture, to process-based systems and chance encounters. Many of the large paintings incorporate sheets of plywood adhered to the surface of the canvas, often extending beyond the rectangular picture plane to create idiosyncratic shapes. The rigid elements allow Messineo to push the application and texture of the oil paint—thick, impasto sections are scraped onto the surface or carved into, scribbling marks fade into shifting moments of washy, brushed-on color. Read More RJ Messineo, Red, Red, 2021, oil on panel, 20" × 16" (50.8 cm × 40.6 cm) Learn More Close modal View Previous View Next Carousel slide 0 Carousel slide 1 Carousel slide 2 Carousel slide 3 Carousel slide 4 Carousel slide 5 Carousel slide 6 Carousel slide 7 Carousel slide 8 Carousel slide 9 RJ Messineo Red, Red 2021 oil on panel 20" × 16" (50.8 cm × 40.6 cm) Inquire How can we reach you? First Name* Last Name* Email* Phone Inquiry Message Have you purchased from Pace before?* Yes No Submit Inquiry Or go back RJ Messineo, Notes for Trees, 2021, oil on panel, 20" × 16" (50.8 cm × 40.6 cm) Learn More Close modal View Previous View Next Carousel slide 0 Carousel slide 1 Carousel slide 2 Carousel slide 3 Carousel slide 4 Carousel slide 5 Carousel slide 6 Carousel slide 7 Carousel slide 8 RJ Messineo Notes for Trees 2021 oil on panel 20" × 16" (50.8 cm × 40.6 cm) Inquire How can we reach you? First Name* Last Name* Email* Phone Inquiry Message Have you purchased from Pace before?* Yes No Submit Inquiry Or go back Sam Gilliamb. 1933, Tupelo, MississippiLives and works in Washington, D.C.Sam Gilliam is one of the great innovators in postwar American painting. He emerged from the Washington, D.C. scene in the mid-1960s with works that elaborated upon and disrupted the ethos of Color School painting. Read More Sam Gilliam, Color Abacus, 2020, wood, aluminum, die-stain, lacquer, 12" × 22" × 5" (30.5 cm × 55.9 cm × 12.7 cm) Learn More Close modal Sam Gilliam Color Abacus 2020 wood, aluminum, die-stain, lacquer 12" × 22" × 5" (30.5 cm × 55.9 cm × 12.7 cm) Inquire How can we reach you? First Name* Last Name* Email* Phone Inquiry Message Have you purchased from Pace before?* Yes No Submit Inquiry Or go back Gilliam grew up in Louisville, Kentucky, attending the University of Louisville for both undergraduate and graduate school. In addition to a traveling retrospective organized by the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. in 2005, and installation at the Central Pavilion of the 57th Venice Biennale, Gilliam has been the subject of solo exhibitions at The Museum of Modern Art, New York (1971); The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York (1982); Whitney Museum of American Art, Philip Morris Branch, New York (1993); J.B. Speed Memorial Museum, Louisville, Kentucky (1996); Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C. (2011); and Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland (2018), among many other institutions. A semi-permanent installation of Gilliam’s paintings opened at Dia:Beacon in August 2019. His work is included in over 50 public collections, including those of the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris; Tate Modern, London; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; and the Art Institute of Chicago. Read More Sonia Gomes, Sem título [Untitled], 2004, stitching, bindings, different fabrics and threads on bench, 20-1/8" × 9-7/8" × 10-1/4" (51.1 cm × 25.1 cm × 26 cm) Learn More Sonia Gomesb. 1948, Caetanópolis, BrasilLives and Works in São Paulo, BrasilSonia Gomes combines secondhand textiles with everyday materials, such as furniture, driftwood, and wire, to create abstract sculptures that reclaim Afro-Brazilian traditions and feminized crafts from the margins of history. Close modal View Previous View Next Carousel slide 0 Carousel slide 1 Sonia Gomes Sem título [Untitled] 2004 stitching, bindings, different fabrics and threads on bench 20-1/8" × 9-7/8" × 10-1/4" (51.1 cm × 25.1 cm × 26 cm) Inquire How can we reach you? First Name* Last Name* Email* Phone Inquiry Message Have you purchased from Pace before?* Yes No Submit Inquiry Or go back Rachel Eulena Williams, Weighted Quilt, 2021, acrylic paint and dye on canvas, wood panel, hammock and cotton rope, 65" × 77" × 5" (165.1 cm × 195.6 cm × 12.7 cm) Learn More Rachel Eulena Williamsb. 1991, Miami, FloridaLives and works in New YorkRachel Eulena Williams's work displays an unusual level of candor, invention, and lightness. Exuding confidence and pleasure, her painted constructions employ the language of abstract painting, but are transformed through her distinct approach to material. Finding a balance between painting and sculpture, Williams incorporates large swaths of color made from painted canvases and subsequently cuts them up and reconfigures. The collage-like quality is tied together with sewing, which acts both functionally and creates marks within her compositions. Williams also adds ropes of various lengths and thickness to the works, becoming stand-in gestural marks. The overall feeling is of solidity and lightness, structure and wild chances, jostling to create waves of energy. Close modal View Previous View Next Carousel slide 0 Carousel slide 1 Carousel slide 2 Carousel slide 3 Carousel slide 4 Carousel slide 5 Carousel slide 6 Carousel slide 7 Carousel slide 8 Carousel slide 9 Carousel slide 10 Carousel slide 11 Carousel slide 12 Carousel slide 13 Carousel slide 14 Carousel slide 15 Carousel slide 16 Carousel slide 17 Carousel slide 18 Carousel slide 19 Carousel slide 20 Carousel slide 21 Rachel Eulena Williams Weighted Quilt 2021 acrylic paint and dye on canvas, wood panel, hammock and cotton rope 65" × 77" × 5" (165.1 cm × 195.6 cm × 12.7 cm) Inquire How can we reach you? First Name* Last Name* Email* Phone Inquiry Message Have you purchased from Pace before?* Yes No Submit Inquiry Or go back Rachel Eulena Williams, Systems, 2021, acrylic paint and dye on canvas, panel, and cotton rope, 73" × 133" × 4" (185.4 cm × 337.8 cm × 10.2 cm) Learn More Close modal Rachel Eulena Williams Systems 2021 acrylic paint and dye on canvas, panel, and cotton rope 73" × 133" × 4" (185.4 cm × 337.8 cm × 10.2 cm) Inquire How can we reach you? First Name* Last Name* Email* Phone Inquiry Message Have you purchased from Pace before?* Yes No Submit Inquiry Or go back Richard Pousette-Dart, Presence Number 3, Black, 1969, oil on linen, 80" x 80" (203.2 cm x 203.2 cm) Learn More Richard Pousette-Dartb. 1916, Saint Paul, Minnesotad. 1992, New York Close modal View Previous View Next Carousel slide 0 Carousel slide 1 Carousel slide 2 Carousel slide 3 Richard Pousette-Dart Presence Number 3, Black 1969 oil on linen 80" x 80" (203.2 cm x 203.2 cm) Inquire How can we reach you? First Name* Last Name* Email* Phone Inquiry Message Have you purchased from Pace before?* Yes No Submit Inquiry Or go back Richard Pousette-Dart was the youngest artist of the New York School’s first generation of Abstract Expressionists. During his career, Pousette-Dart created a lexicon of biomorphic and totemic forms that provided rich visual and symbolic sources that he would explore throughout his long career in a multitude of painterly approaches. He is recognized for his painting, drawing, photography, and sculpture, which are unified by his expressive use of gesture, form, and color. Never embracing action painting and instead pursuing his own aesthetic, Pousette-Dart sought universal significance in his art, expressed through nonobjective means.Pousette-Dart’s work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art (1963, 1974, 1998); Museum of Modern Art (1969); The Metropolitan Museum of Art (1997); and Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum as well as the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice, Italy (2007). Recent monographic presentations have been held at the Philadelphia Museum of Art (2014); The Drawing Center, New York (2015); Kettle’s Yard, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom (2018); and Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine (2018) Read More Anthony Olubunmi Akinbola, Black piece CAMOUFLAGE #005 (Rick James), 2021, durags, acrylic on wood panel, 9' 11" × 8' 5" × 3" (302.3 cm × 256.5 cm × 7.6 cm) Learn More Anthony Olubunmi Akinbolab. 1991, Columbia, MissouriLives and works in Brooklyn, New York Close modal View Previous View Next Carousel slide 0 Carousel slide 1 Carousel slide 2 Anthony Olubunmi Akinbola Black piece CAMOUFLAGE #005 (Rick James) 2021 durags, acrylic on wood panel 9' 11" × 8' 5" × 3" (302.3 cm × 256.5 cm × 7.6 cm) Inquire How can we reach you? First Name* Last Name* Email* Phone Inquiry Message Have you purchased from Pace before?* Yes No Submit Inquiry Or go back Anthony Olubunmi Akinbola is a first-generation American raised between Missouri and Nigeria. Foregoing conventional approaches to painting and sculpture, Akinbola reimagines identity construction through startling original treatments of color and texture. His self-developed techniques explore the possibilities of totemic materials such as palm oil, hair brushes, and durags—fiber scarves used in maintaining Black hair. Akinbola has characterized his works as “metaphors for what a first-generation existence might look like,” and unpacks the rituals and histories separating Africa from Black America. His multifaceted compositions celebrate and reconcile diverse cultural narratives, creating multilayered artworks engaging consumption, respectability, and the commodification of Black culture.Akinbola was selected for the Anderson Ranch Art Center Residency in 2017, awarded the Van Lier Fellowship in 2019, and an artist-in-residence at Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna, in 2020. He has been featured in exhibitions at The Queens Museum, New York; the Verbeke Foundation, Stekene, Belgium; and The Zuckerman Museum of Art, Kennesaw, Georgia, among others. Following his recent show at the Museum of Arts and Design, New York, in 2020, Akinbola mounted significant solo exhibitions in early 2021 at FALSE FLAG, New York; the John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin; and Night Gallery, Los Angeles, California. Read More Kylie Manningb. 1983, Juneau, AlaskaLives and works in Brooklyn, New York Read More Kylie Manning, Clove hitch, 2021, oil on linen, 64" × 86" (162.6 cm × 218.4 cm) Learn More Close modal View Previous View Next Carousel slide 0 Carousel slide 1 Carousel slide 2 Carousel slide 3 Carousel slide 4 Carousel slide 5 Kylie Manning Clove hitch 2021 oil on linen 64" × 86" (162.6 cm × 218.4 cm) Inquire How can we reach you? First Name* Last Name* Email* Phone Inquiry Message Have you purchased from Pace before?* Yes No Submit Inquiry Or go back Kylie Manning, Dog Days, 2021, oil on linen, 60" × 84" (152.4 cm × 213.4 cm) Learn More Close modal View Previous View Next Carousel slide 0 Carousel slide 1 Carousel slide 2 Carousel slide 3 Carousel slide 4 Carousel slide 5 Kylie Manning Dog Days 2021 oil on linen 60" × 84" (152.4 cm × 213.4 cm) Inquire How can we reach you? First Name* Last Name* Email* Phone Inquiry Message Have you purchased from Pace before?* Yes No Submit Inquiry Or go back Kylie Manning is a graduate of Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Massachusetts Summa Cum Laude with a double major in Philosophy and Visual Arts. While earning a Masters from the New York Academy of Art, Manning was sent to Leipzig, Germany to exhibit and study alongside the New Leipzig School. Her training in Germany exposed her to the New Leipzig School’s version of Surrealism whose narratives she toys within her paintings. Using pure pigments dispersed with safflower and walnut oil on Belgian linen, Manning creates a whirlwind of thinly layered oil sketches that simultaneously imply and deny a narrative. Manning imbues her compositions with a feminist perspective, recontextualizing the macabre aftermath of traditionally gendered “masterpieces.” Read More Chibụike Ụzọmab. 1992, Port Harcourt, NigeriaLives and works in New Haven, ConnecticutChibụike Ụzọma received his BFA from the University of Benin, Nigeria in 2013, and an MFA from Yale University School of Art, New Haven, in 2021. Chibụike is a multidisciplinary artist working with painting, photography, drawing, texts, and video. By treating art as a subject-object in and of itself, Chibụike’s practice engenders the image with the complexes of narratives and the superstitions of meaning—making the subject matter a pretext for performance, and context, a fluid ground. Chibụike has been invited to participate in projects, exhibitions, and residencies by institutions in Africa, Europe, Asia, and North America. Read More Chibuike Uzoma, Good For Us, 2021, oil and acrylic spray paint on canvas, 72-1/8" × 61-3/4" (183.2 cm × 156.8 cm) Learn More Close modal View Previous View Next Carousel slide 0 Carousel slide 1 Chibuike Uzoma Good For Us 2021 oil and acrylic spray paint on canvas 72-1/8" × 61-3/4" (183.2 cm × 156.8 cm) Inquire How can we reach you? First Name* Last Name* Email* Phone Inquiry Message Have you purchased from Pace before?* Yes No Submit Inquiry Or go back Chibuike Uzoma, The Surge Of A Poem (2), 2021, oil and acrylic spray paint on canvas, 84-1/4" × 60-1/4" (214 cm × 153 cm) Learn More Close modal View Previous View Next Carousel slide 0 Carousel slide 1 Carousel slide 2 Chibuike Uzoma The Surge Of A Poem (2) 2021 oil and acrylic spray paint on canvas 84-1/4" × 60-1/4" (214 cm × 153 cm) Inquire How can we reach you? First Name* Last Name* Email* Phone Inquiry Message Have you purchased from Pace before?* Yes No Submit Inquiry Or go back To inquire about any of the works or artists in this exhibition, please email us at inquiries@pacegallery.com. Read More Past Convergent Evolutions The Conscious of Body Work Sep 10 – Oct 23, 2021 New York Past, Convergent Evolutions, In Focus, Sep 15, 2021