Thursday, May 26, 2011
Current Pace exhibition will conclude with celebration of his life August 28
The Red House, Stephen Pace, 2009
Contact for more information:
Wendy Knipe Bredhold Media Relations Specialist, News & Information Services 812/461-5259 The reception is in conjunction with the center′s current exhibit, Stephen Pace: A Life in Art 1918-2010. The art center and galleries are in the Liberal Arts Center at USI. The show features the artwork of Stephen S. Pace, an internationally-known painter who died in fall 2010 at the age of 91. Susan Sauls, registrar of the USI Art Collection, curated the exhibit, selecting over 80 paintings, drawings, and prints from a bequest to the collection by Pace and his wife Palmina. The artworks are arranged in chronological groupings, from the 1930s to 2010. Stephen Pace's formative years were spent on a farm outside of New Harmony, Indiana, and his first art lessons were taken at the Evansville Museum. Pace went on to initial prominence in New York as an Abstract Expressionist painter in the 1950s, and later earned acclaim for his figurative abstraction in the 1960s and beyond. His paintings and drawings are in the collections of major U.S. museums such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. In 1972, the Paces purchased a summer home in the small fishing village of Stonington, Maine. For over 50 years, the Paces lived and worked in Maine and New York. In 2008, they returned to southern Indiana, first residing in Evansville and then in New Harmony, where Stephen Pace continued to paint until his death on September 23, 2010. The Paces were instrumental in completing the McCutchan Art Center/Pace Galleries, which opened in fall 2008, and its galleries are named for them. Kathryn Waters, professor of art, is director of the art center. The art center's summer hours are 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Monday through Friday and 1 to 5 p.m. Sunday. For more information, call 812/228-5006. |
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