Stephen Pace

Gallery Talk with Martica Sawin
Saturday, April 6, 2019
2 PM

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Martica Sawin

MARTICA SAWIN is an art historian and critic who has spent a half century covering contemporary art in print and in the classroom. She is author of the seminal publication, Surrealism in Exile and the Beginning of the New York School, and has written more than 100 essays on contemporary artists for exhibition catalogues and art magazines as well as authoring and co-authoring a number of monographs. Sawin served as Art History Department Chair at Parsons School of Design (1967-1995), is founder of Parsons in Paris, was a contributing editor in ARTS magazine, and was the New York Correspondent for Art International in the 1950s and 1960s. Sawin authored Stephen Pace, the critical and biographical text that summarizes the artist's life and art from Pace's early forceful abstract expressionist canvases to the luminous representational paintings of recent decades.