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Online Exhibition

In Being Double

The Pace Staff Show

Aug 3 – Sep 9, 2023

In Being Double—an exhibition of artworks by Pace’s international staff members, curated by Tumelo Nwanma (Gallery Coordinator) and John Richey (Senior Registrar)—features paintings, sculptures, photographs, prints, drawings, and films that reflect the creativity and imagination of the gallery’s team across New York, Los Angeles, London, Geneva, and Hong Kong.

Organized by the Artist & Programming Engagement sub-committee of the gallery’s Culture & Equity team, this exhibition focuses on enactments of doubling in everyday, lived experiences as well as the ecosystems that govern the natural environment. In their curatorial statement for the show, Nwanma and Richey write that In Being Double presents an opportunity for Pace staff members “to submit artworks that illustrate and explore their internal and external ecosystems. To inhabit the alter of their lives, and to allow the humanity of their hidden selves to exist in physical space across mediums.”

This digital presentation of In Being Double complements the in-person exhibition, on view at Pace’s 540 West 25th Street gallery in New York through August 18, bringing together works that figure in the physical show alongside online-exclusive pieces.

As part of In Being Double, the show’s organizers have established a partnership with Glenn Quentin—an award-winning artist, founder of Higher Vibrations Collective, and collaborator at the Brooklyn-based nonprofit Recess Art—to devise a guided meditation for the exhibition. A prompt written by Quentin, which appears in this online iteration of In Being Double, encourages viewers to consider the interconnectivity between themselves and the artists who welcome us into their personal worlds through their work.

A curated reading list—produced by the gallery’s Research and Archives department in collaboration with the exhibition’s organizers—is also included within this online presentation.

In Being Double continues a tradition of Pace staff exhibitions that goes back some 25 years in the gallery’s history. Through these presentations, Pace showcases and celebrates the artistic talents and diverse perspectives of its team members around the globe.

Recess

(opens in a new window) Recess partners with artists to build a more just and equitable creative community. By welcoming radical thinkers to imagine and shape networks of resilience and safety, Recess defines and advances the possibilities of contemporary art.

For this year’s staff show, we’ve partnered with Glenn Quentin—an award-winning artist, founder of Higher Vibrations Collective, and collaborator at Recess—to devise a guided meditation to accompany the exhibition. As you engage the works in this show, we hope that Glenn’s prompt will encourage you to consider the interconnectivity between you and the artists who welcome you into the ecosystems of their personal worlds.

Human-ity Reflection

Take in this world of wonder around you. Take an opportunity to just notice. Notice what you can that lives internal and what lives external. Where do you stand?

Take a few breaths to SEE with your entire BEing what’s in front of you.

Placing one hand on your heart and the other hand on your belly. Let’s connect to our breath.

What do you SEE? What do you SEE? What do you SEE? What do you SEE? What do you SEE?

What do you FEEL? What do you FEEL? What do you FEEL? What do you FEEL? What do you FEEL?

What do you THINK? What do you THINK? What do you THINK? What do you THINK? What do you THINK?

Take a collective breath

Breathe in Breathe out

“An ecosystem is a geographic area where plants, animals, and other organisms coexist in a physical environment working together to form a bubble of life. This bubble encompasses an internal landscape where the vestiges of this external ecosystem are echoed by the mirror self.”

What Does It Mean To Co-Exist?

Take a moment and respond to this prompt In a way that feels most appropriate.

Journal - Move - Paint - Speak - Sing

We need each other in this web of life. Always in a state of co-creation. What will you create next?

All Artworks

Charis Ammon, Slice, 2023, oil on canvas, 6" × 8" (15.2 cm × 20.3 cm)

Charis Ammon

she/her
New York, NY

Charis Ammon was born in 1992 in Dallas, TX and currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. Ammon graduated from Texas State University with a BFA in Painting, and she completed her MFA in Painting at The University of Houston in May 2018. Ammon's solo exhibitions include Where Do You Go When You Are On Your Way with Alexander DiJulio in New York, NY (2023), Palm Trees and City Debris, Texas State University Gallery, San Marcos, TX (2022), Inheritance at The Old Jail Art Center, Albany, TX (2020), and Maintenance at Art League Houston (2019), as well as two solo exhibitions at Inman Gallery (2021, 2018). Her work was recently included in Springs Eternal at The Fireplace Project in East Hampton (2023), Urban Impressions: Experiencing the Global Contemporary Metropolis, Moody Center For the Arts, Rice University, Houston, TX (2022), The Big Show, Lawndale Art Center, Houston (2022) and in Shh at Alexander DiJulio in NYC (2023). An artist book is included in an upcoming survey of book arts at The Printing Museum, Houston.

charistx@gmail.com
(opens in a new window) www.charisammon.com
(opens in a new window) @charisammon1

Charis Ammon, Dappled, 2023, oil on canvas, 6" × 8" (15.2 cm × 20.3 cm)
Charis Ammon, New Bodega, 2023, oil on canvas, 6" × 8" (15.2 cm × 20.3 cm)
Tabitha Booth, Gaia's Guitar, 2023, mixed media on guitar, 39" × 13" × 1-3/4" (99.1 cm × 33 cm × 4.4 cm)

Tabitha Booth

she/her
New York, NY

Tabitha Booth, daughter of renowned tattoo artist, Paul Booth, paints, designs and fabricates set production as much as she sings with her bandmates in the Tristate area. She has travelled to many lands and many psyches only to find that music forever calls to her. Gaia’s Guitar took 30 pandemic hours to complete; and represents that going home to Pacha Mama, and unplugging, could be equivalent to painting an instrument and plugging it in… when you live in the city.

tabithaboothstudios@gmail.com
(opens in a new window) @tabithaboothofficial

Jonathan Vidal, Marmy Matheline, Scorched Time (Spinout), 2023, oil painted steel, tin cast, rubber, 11" × 4" × 2-5/16" (27.9 cm × 10.2 cm × 5.8 cm)

Jonathan Vidal

he/him
Geneva, Switzerland

Jonathan Vidal (b. 1990, Hyères, France), received his BA at ESADMM (Marseille) and MFA at HEAD (Geneva). In recent years, his practice has focused on the analysis and formal description of neoliberal doctrines and their underlying violence. In his work, the transition from theory to form often takes place through speculative narratives. He revisits fragments of these sources and reinterprets them in painting, drawing, and sculpture. Vidal's work tends towards the construction of a speculative logic that highlights and plays on the symbolic dysfunctions and beliefs attached to these value systems.

jvidal@pacegallery.com
(opens in a new window) www.jonathanvidal.net
(opens in a new window) @lavidjohnson

Matheline Marmy

she/her
Geneva, Switzerland

Matheline Marmy (b. 1993, Geneva, Switzerland), received her BA at ECAL (Lausanne) and MFA at Piet Zwart Institute (Rotterdam). Her practice involves manipulable and reactive materials (metals, water, salts, acids, textiles) coupled with retaining components such as glass. Recent exhibitions featuring her work were held at Flux Laboratory (Geneva), Prospects (Art Rotterdam), The Lighthaus (Zurich), Centre d’Art Contemporain (Geneva), RIB (Rotterdam), Langmatt Museum (Baden), and Kunsthaus Langenthal for Kiefer Hablitzel Preis 2020.

(opens in a new window) www.mathelinemarmy.com
(opens in a new window) @formsactexcavations

Margarete Maneker, Hazeh/Haba, 2022, ceramic, dried herbs, ink on paper, and crystals, 10" × 8" × 2" (25.4 cm × 20.3 cm × 5.1 cm)

Margarete Maneker

she/her
New York, NY

Margarete Maneker (she/her) is a Jewish herbalist and poetess hailing from the suburbs of New York City (occupied Siwanoy land). Through her spiritual work with plant matter, she explores the potentialities of medicinal and energetic healing. Her work, Hazeh/Haba (2023) recalls the duality between this world (olam hazeh) and the world to come (olam haba) in Jewish eschatology through a portable ceramic altarpiece. Decorated with mugwort and rose, herbs of the heart and dreams, as well as a handwritten prayer, the altar serves as a physical presence of the liminal meeting point between what is and what may be. Margarete lives and works in Brooklyn, New York (Lenapehoking). Her writing has been included in the Lewis & Clark Literary Review and Frogwood Zine.

mmaneker@pacegallery.com

Jessica Lally, Untitled (Patrick Loves General Hospital), 1963-2023, print, 10" × 8" (25.4 cm × 20.3 cm)

Jessica Lally

she/her
New York, NY

jlally@pacegallery.com

Aishah Balogun

she/her
New York

Aishah Balogun is an interdisciplinary artist based in Brooklyn, New York. As an artist, Aishah is constantly interested in exploring questions of the self and personal and familial histories. Born to Nigerian parents in Atlanta, Georgia, she is fascinated by the diasporic identity—. Hhow she and others around the world navigate Blackness with our direct African lineage. Her work currently is currently focused on piecing together her family's history through oral storytelling, found photos, poetry, and video.

abalogun949@gmail.com
(opens in a new window) www.aishaholabisibalogun.com
(opens in a new window) @aishah.v

Cammy Nguyen

Aishah Balogun, Cammy Nguyen, Untitled, 2023, chromogenic print, 17" × 13" (43.2 cm × 33 cm)
Aishah Balogun, Cammy Nguyen, Untitled, 2023, chromogenic print, 17" × 13" (43.2 cm × 33 cm)
Dan Gratz, Crystal Voids (Violet), 2023, Two oil on canvas paintings, 12" × 12" (30.5 cm × 30.5 cm), each

Dan Gratz

he/him
b. Berkeley, CA California
Lives and works in New York, NY

Dan Gratz graduated from Indiana University with a BFA in painting in 2007 and the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana with an MFA in studio art in 2013. With a studio in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, Dan has exhibited extensively in New York and beyond. He has written for The Brooklyn Rail and curated several exhibitions, and he received a grant from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation in 2020. The geometric shapes and simple designs in his work are often influenced by his experiences with meditation, cold therapy, fasting, plant medicines, and other interventions. Dan’s paintings explore the idea of “directness,” which corresponds to his efforts to look within and celebrate the present moment.

Dan has been working as an art handler at Pace Gallery since 2018.

dangratz@gmail.com
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(opens in a new window) @dangratz

Adriano Valeri, Notes from an orange sea, 2023, acrylic and collage on paper, 11" × 15" (27.9 cm × 38.1 cm)

Adriano Valeri

he/him
b. 1987, Milan, Italy
Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY

Adriano Valeri graduated from the State Academy of Fine Arts in Venice and is represented by Galleria Marcolini in Forli, Italy. Notable solo exhibitions include his Claudonia Rapida (2017) at Galleria Marcolini in Forli, Italy; Hurricane Season at mhPROJECTnyc in New York (2018); and Adriano Valeri (2019) at Altipiani in Bolzano, Italy. Valeri’s compositions and subjects reflect the globalized and rapidly homogenizing nature of the Earth’s surface, spaces that are difficult or undesirable to access, or which have ceased to be profitable for industrial or agricultural uses. Valeri addresses these unassigned areas as laboratories of biodiversity, even as they collect the effluvia of human action, the mass-produced materials, and infrastructure necessary to support us and enable our activities.

Adriano has worked at Pace as a preparator since November 2019.

adrianomvaleri@gmail.com
(opens in a new window) www.adrianovaleri.com
(opens in a new window) @adrianomvaleri

Joyce Lee, Interstitial Day Dream l, 2023, acrylic on canvas, 40 cm × 60 cm (15-3/4" × 23-5/8")

Joyce Lee

she/her
b. Long Island, NY Lives and works in Hong Kong

Joyce Lee was born in Long Island, New York and raised in Silicon Valley, California. She studied Art History and East Asian Studies at Stanford University and began self-studying painting in 1996. Her early works focused on themes found in Imperial Chinese art, textiles, and ink paintings. Through the decades, her themes of birds, flowers, fishes, mountains, and water reveal traditional Chinese iconography relating to ever-lasting prosperity, strength, friendship, peace, and auspicious blessings. Her lyrical, impressionistic works embrace humanity, harmony, healing, and happiness through gentle expressions of color, light, lines and forms.

fiveelementsartgallery@gmail.com
(opens in a new window) Five Elements Art Gallery
(opens in a new window) @fiveelementsartgallery

Nat Escobar, wet butterfly, 2019, Laser print collage, 4" × 6" (10.2 cm × 15.2 cm), image 12" × 12" × 3/4" (30.5 cm × 30.5 cm × 1.9 cm), frame

Nat Escobar

they/them
New York, NY

Nat Escobar is a queer Salvadoran-American artist who transforms their photographs into collages and then prints them onto hand-dyed textiles to create handmade accessories and wearables. Each piece incorporates images of the plants and weeds that Escobar sees during their New York City commutes, serving as symbols of resistance and resilience in a changing climate. Escobar's handmade pieces are sold independently at DIY pop-ups in NYC and, most recently, in Tokyo, as part of a collaboration with 8fields x Domicile Tokyo.

nescob20@gmail.com
(opens in a new window) www.natescobar.com
(opens in a new window) @escobat
(opens in a new window) @shopescobat

Nicholas Kantarelis, Idaean Fingers l, 2023, aluminum, silicone, paint, 26" × 43" × 10" (66 cm × 109.2 cm × 25.4 cm)
Anthony B. Creeden, Sunrise (Koreatown), 2023, pigment dispersion on rabbit skin glue gesso, wax varnish, and sublimation print on polyester, 24" × 20" (61 cm × 50.8 cm)

Anthony B. Creeden

he/him
b. Washington, D.C.
Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA

Interested in the familiar and yet disparate connections of modern life, Anthony B. Creeden creates paintings that combine digital images captured during his daily walks around the Koreatown neighborhood of Los Angeles as well as early mornings with his two pet cats—images which are then printed on fabric and used as visual substrates. The surfaces of his works are built up with a traditional rabbit skin glue gesso to which pigments, suspended in water, are washed over and quickly absorbed. The end result resembles something closer to a fresco.

Creeden holds an MFA from The University of Texas at Austin and a BFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. His works have been exhibited at the Elmhurst Art Museum in Elmhurst, Illinois; Edward Cella Gallery in Los Angeles; and William Benington Gallery in London.

anthonybcreeden@gmail.com

Todd Kelly, Proud Mary, 2023, oil, acrylic, spray paint, colored foil, printed images, plexiglass, pink mirror, hardware, embroidery floss, stretcher bars, canvas, 24" × 18" (61 cm × 45.7 cm)

Todd Kelly

he/him
New York, NY

Born in Michigan, Todd Kelly currently lives and works in New York City. His work is represented by Asya Geisberg Gallery.

fmsartst@gmail.com
(opens in a new window) www.tskly.org
(opens in a new window) @toddstevenkelly

Jason Nickel, CrescentiA Cover (Come Along If You Can), 2023, Giclee print, 10-1/4" × 6-3/4" (26 cm × 17.1 cm) 12-1/4" × 8-1/4" (31.1 cm × 21 cm), framed

Jason Nickel

he/him
New York, NY

Jason was born in upstate New York and grew up in several locales throughout New York and Pennsylvania. He went to college in Ohio and graduate school on Long Island. He has worked as a carpenter, adjunct art professor, and art exhibition installer in numerous places and capacities. He currently lives and works in Queens.

After 20 years as an experimental abstract painter, Jason returned to figuration and began the process of painting and drawing an epic fantasy. The first cycle of this story is now a graphic novel, which he is currently crowdfunding.

Prints may be purchased for $30 at IndieGoGo. (opens in a new window) Click here to purchase.

jason@creschron.com
(opens in a new window) www.jasonnickel.net
(opens in a new window) @cres_chron_

Morgan, Brii, 2020, acrylic on cardboard, 13" × 11" (33 cm × 27.9 cm)

Morgan Chanon-Smith

she/her
New York, NY

Morgan Chanon-Smith was born in New York City and raised in Queens, New York. She graduated from Skidmore College with a Bachelor’s in English and a minor in Studio Art. Chanon-Smith works primarily in pen, watercolor, and acrylic, and depicting Black femininity is central to her practice. Often accompanied by bright and colorful floral motifs, Chanon-Smith’s work aims to celebrate the vibrance of life, as she sees art making as part of her self-care. Chanon-Smith has experience working in museums, galleries, artists’ studios, and classrooms, and she is passionate about making art and arts spaces accessible and engaging to diverse audiences.

Morgan joined Pace in 2022 as Senior Event Associate and currently oversees the execution of the gallery’s public programming and events.

morganchanonsmith@gmail.com