33 Orchard
33B Orchard Street
New York, NY 10002
Tel: 347 278 1500
March 31 - May 8, 2016
Wednesday to Sunday :
12 - 6 pm
March 31 - May 8, 2016
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Artist website: www.paulpagk.blogspot.com
Born in Gainesville, Florida, in 1961
Lives in Fort Myers, Florida
School of Visual Arts, New York; MFA 1987
Cambridge University International Summer School, Cambridge, England 1984
University of West Florida, Pensacola, FL; BFA 1984
Florida State University Study Center, Florence, Italy 1982
2012
Feature Inc., New York
2008
Bob Rauschenberg Gallery, Edison College, Fort Myers, FL
2007
Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, FL
2006
Feature Inc., New York
2004
Abstractions, Barrick, Marshall, Harris and Harris Foundation Galleries, The Von Liebig Art Center, Naples, FL
2003
Blondeau Fine Art Services, Geneva (brochure: text by Johanna Burton)
Feature Inc., New York
2002
du B, F, H & g, Montreal
2001
Feature Inc., New York
2000
Association for Research and Enlightenment/Edgar Cayce Foundation, Virginia Beach, VA
Carolyn P. Brown University Center Concourse Gallery, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
1986
Edison Community College Auditorium Gallery, Fort Myers, FL
2015
The Painter of Modern Life, Anton Kern Gallery, New York, NY, Organized by Bob Nickas.
On Paper: Mamie Holst & Paul Pagk, 33 Orchard, New York NY
spacematters, Brian Morris Gallery, New York, NY
2013
Hard Hat Benefit Auction and Exhibition, Blondeau & Cie, Geneva
"seven @ SEVEN 2," The Boiler, Brooklyn
2012
Punt, Feature Inc., New York
"Creature from the Blue Lagoon," Martos Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY; organized by Bob Nickas
"Art on Paper 2012," Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of NC at Greensboro
"This Green Earth: Landscapes from the Permanent Collection," Pannell Gallery, Sweet Briar College,
Sweet Briar, VA
"The Old, the New, the Different," Kunsthalle Bern, Switzerland
"Adventures, reflections, and ambushes," Manoir de la Ville de Martigny, Switzerland; curated by Balthazar Lovay
(catalogue)
2011
Chain Letter, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA; curated by Christian Cummings & Doug Harvey
"bodybraingame," Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago
"Arts for ACT Benefit Exhibition and Auction," Bob Rauschenberg Gallery, Edison State College, Fort Myers, FL
2010
The Global Warming Art Report, Space 39 Gallery, Fort Myers, FL; curated by Lily Hatchett
"Black Is the Color of My True Love's Hair," NP Contemporary Art Center, New York
"Studiolo," Hard Hat, Geneva; curated by Marc Blondeau and Philippe Davet
2009
Cave Painting: Installment #2, Gresham's Ghost (third location), New York; organized by Bob Nickas
"Why Painting Now?" BFAS/Blondeau Fine Art Services, Geneva
"After the Gold Rush, 106 Green, Brooklyn
"Populate This Form," Feature Inc., New York
2005
Accrochage, Blondeau Fine Art Services, Geneva, Switzerland
"Inside Out Loud: Visualizing Women's Health in Contemporary Art," Mildred Lane Kemper Art
Museum, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO; curated by Janine Mileaf (catalogue)
2004
Psychic Landscape, "Yvon Lambert, New York
" RLV Invitational 04," Rancho Linda Vista, Oracle, AZ
"Gallery Artists," Feature Inc., New York
2001
Mamie Holst and Tracy Miller, Feature Inc., New York
2000
Snapshot: An Exhibition of 1,000 Artists, Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, MD
"Grok Terence McKenna Dead," Feature Inc., New York
"Sources of Chi" (two-person exhibition), Broward Community College Fine Arts Gallery, Davie, FL
"Southeastern Aquamedia Exhibition 2000," Kinston Arts Center, Kinston, NC; curated by
John A. Hancock
"Artists Beyond Disabilities," California State University at Long Beach Design Gallery,
Long Beach, CA; juried by Rosetta Brooks
1999
Extraordinary Art: Beyond the Museum, 33rd Street Armory, Philadelphia; organized by the
Women's Committee of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts; juried by Sara Steele
"Artists Beyond Disabilities," California State University at Long Beach Design Gallery,
Long Beach, CA; juried by Todd Gray
1995
Night of 1,000 Drawings, Artists Space, New York
1994
Artarget Open National Juried Exhibition, Manatee Community College Fine Arts Gallery, Bradenton, FL;
juried by Florence Putterman
1987
Visual Arts Gallery, New York; curated by Lucio Pozzi
Visual Arts Gallery, New York; curated by Susi Bloc
"Fifty for the Twentieth Art Alumni Exhibition," University of West Florida Art Gallery, Pensacola, FL
1984
Fetishes: Five Artists from Northwest Florida, Florida Center for Contemporary Art, Tampa, FL
Born in England UK, 1962
Lived in England, Austria, France and lives and works in New York since 1988.
1978 to 1982: École Nationale Supérieure des Beaus-Arts, Paris, France
2016
Paul Pagk, Galerie Eric Dupont, Paris France
2014
Oeuvres récentes, Galerie Eric Dupont, Paris France
2013
18 Drawings and 1 Painting, Studio 10, Brooklyn, New York
2011
Mesquite drawings, Some Walls, Oakland, Ca, USA
2010
Recent Paintings, My red maybe your orance, even, Galerie Eric Dupont, Paris, France
2009
Children of the Revoluton Cosmic Sex Poem, Exhibition, New York
2008
Home is where the heart is, Baukunst Galerie, Köln, Germany
2007
Recent Paintings, Galerie Eric Dupont, Paris, France
To K from P with love, Markus Winter, Berlin, Germany
Aftermath & Lexicon, Moti Hasson Gallery, New York
2005
Open project space, New York
Galerie Eric Dupont, Paris, France
2003
Battle Pagk curated by Adrian Dannatt, Thomas Erben Gallery, New York
2002
Galerie Eric Dupont, Paris, France
2000
Galerie Eric Dupont, Paris, France
Galeries des etudes, ENAD Limoges-Aubusson, France
1999
MACC, Fresnes, France
Le 10 neuf, C.R.A.C. Montbéliard, France
1998
Galerie Eric Dupont, Paris, France
CRG Callery, New York
1995
CRG Gallery, New York
1994
Galerie Eric Dupont, Toulouse, France
1993
Thread Waxing Space, New York
1992
Galerie Eric Dupont, Toulouse, France
1991
Thread Waxing Space, New York
1987
Galerie Jean Fournier, Paris, France
1986
Galerie Simone L'Hermitte, Rouen, France
1984
Jean-Marie Monthiers, Paris, France
Jane Kim is pleased to present "Mamie Holst and Paul Pagk," a two-person exhibition of recent paintings. The exhibition opens Thursday, March 31st at 6:00 pm and is on view through May 8, 2016.
Paul Pagk and Mamie Holst are known for creating abstract paintings, with a strong emphasis on structure and materiality. A year ago, "On Paper: Mamie Holst and Paul Pagk," (January - March, 2015) was presented at 33 Orchard. With more than 60 drawings, the exhibition juxtaposed a visually dynamic conversation between two very different artistic styles. Continuing the exchange, the exhibition of small-to-medium-sized canvases by Pagk and Holst, attempts to examine their distinct approaches to painting. Holst's acrylic on canvas and Pagk's oil on linen investigate the boundless physicality of paint. Furthermore, they question how those limitless possibilities affect the sculptural quality and intense visual life of a work.
Paul Pagk's series of small oil paintings on linen demands the viewer's concentration to fully envelop themself within the works, which feature geometric lines and curves amidst varying blocks of color. The canvas itself becomes a geometric form, containing, framing, and interacting with the shapes on its surface. Pagk's both calculated and unrestrained practice as a painter is evident in these works made in his Tribeca studio in New York, where lines connect and overlap, sometimes forming a single interconnected configuration. Tight and loose, the paintings feel independent, and Pagk gives each canvas a life through the colors, partnered with a deep contemplation of space and light.
Mamie Holst presents six black, white, and grey paintings, titled "Landscape Before Dying" with a subtitle in parenthesis, dating from 2010 to 2015. The series, begun in 1997, eight years after she was diagnosed with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, is a reference to her illness. As she asked herself "How long will I have to live with this condition- is it life-long?," she found that the question also became the answer. Each painting becomes it's own being, energized through a transformation, allowing the viewer a deliberation of life's mysteries. The patterns and textures recall images already within our world, including landscapes of nature and space. But they also give a tangible, visual representation of the often times invisible inner workings of the human mind, which can burst in layers of thoughts and processes.
Through an external experience of the works, one can understand the internal process of Holst and Pagk. There is a handmade quality present. For example, Pagk, makes the stretchers of his smaller paintings, therefore not one is linear. Both artists give off a feeling that the paint has been handled, molded in their hands, giving the work a primitive quality, and a nod to artistic styles of African, Muslim, Art Brut, and indigenous origins. While Holst engages a dialogue of canvas as sculpture, Pagk engages in one of canvas as object. Pagk and Holst have created a stylistic modus operandi that harnesses rather than hides the general imperfections in their work. Ultimately, content or subject matter become secondary to the act, and the artistic ego disappears into the canvas.
http://artefuse.com/2016/04/08/mamie-holst-paul-pagk-at-33-orchard-street-124481/.
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"Lower East Side continues to surprise and provide great art as a respite from the glare of high market Chelsea. The small and unassuming storefronts never disappoint in this part of town."
Featured early last year with their works on paper, this duo namely Mamie Holst and Paul Pagk came back with recent paintings for their second round at 33 Orchard. Abstract in character and juxtaposition apparent with Holst doing stark black-white while Pagk who customizes his palette made color rich works. Lower East Side continues to surprise and provide great art as a respite from the glare of high market Chelsea. The small and unassuming storefronts never disappoint in this part of town.
Mamie Holst & Paul Pagk
On View: March 31 – May 8, 2016
Gallery Hours: Wed – Sun (12 pm to 6 pm)
33 Orchard. 338 Orchard Street. New York, NY 10002
Text by: Oscar A. Laluyan
Photography by: Olya Turcihin
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