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Aug 20, 2023

Pace Gallery Takes On 27

The latest artist to join Pace Gallery is now also the youngest in its stable: 27-year-old British painter Pam Evelyn, who will have her first show with the gallery at its London space this September.

The latest artist to join Pace Gallery is now also the youngest in its stable: 27-year-old British painter Pam Evelyn, who will have her first show with the gallery at its London space this September.

Only rarely do mega-galleries like Pace take on young artists like Evelyn, who earned her master’s degree only last year. For the most part, Pace’s roster comprises established artists with solid market followings, like Jeff Koons, Robert Longo, and Adrian Ghenie.

Evelyn works in abstraction, sometimes producing pieces that involve the layering and removal of paint over the course of months. She also makes works on paper that come together more quickly.

“My practice is rooted in instinct and impulse,” she told Wonderland ahead of a 2021 solo exhibition at Peres Projects in Berlin. “I’m very attentive to the patterns of structure and colour that materialise in each work … it’s a process I like to refer to as ‘a mist rising.’”

She also had solo exhibitions at the Approach gallery in London in 2022 and at Massimodecarlo Pièce Unique in Paris earlier this year. She also appeared in a group show at Baert Gallery in Los Angeles.

Few works by Evelyn have come to public auction, although one painting produced in 2020, before she even had her MA, sold at Phillips in 2022 for £81,900, more than six times its high estimate.

Pace Gallery has been rapidly adding artists to its roster in the past year, with recent additions including Grada Kilomba, Hank Willis Thomas, and the estates of Yoo Youngkuk and John Wesley.

Correction, 7/28/23, 5:45 p.m.: A previous version stated that Evelyn appeared in a group show at Massimodecarlo gallery. It was a solo exhibition for her, not a multi-artist presentation.