Drawn from Inner Worlds

Pat Paxson • Kim L Pace

September 8 – October 2, 2016

Reception September 10, 5 – 7PM

Artist Talk / Tour September 10, 4 - 5PM

Kim L Pace, Feline Arena (Summer,) archival pigment print on watercolor paper, 39x15, unique

Kim L Pace, Act of Stupidity, archival pigment print on watercolor paper, 27x22, edition of 10

Kim L Pace, Feud, archival pigment print on watercolor paper, 37x17, unique

Kim L Pace,Parade Ground Blue 2, archival pigment print on watercolor paper, 43x17, edition of 10

Kim L Pace, Strange Encounters (4), archival pigment print on watercolor paper, 16x20, edition of 20

Kim L Pace, Strange Encounters (5), archival pigment print on watercolor paper, 16x20, edition of 20

Kim L Pace, Subterranean Place, archival pigment print on watercolor paper, 25x20, unique

Kim L Pace,Toward the Unknown Region, archival pigment print on watercolor paper, 47x31, edition of 3

Kim L Pace, Weed Envy, archival pigment print on watercolor paper, 30x14, unique

Pat Paxson, Adventure, mixed media on canvas, 16x20

Pat Paxson, Dynamics, mixed media on canvas, 24x30

Pat Paxson, Fragility, mixed media on canvas, 30x24

Pat Paxson, Gift, mixed media on canvas, 24x30, $1,200

Pat Paxson, Group Minus One, mixed media on canvas, 24x30

Pat Paxson, Half-remembered Dream, mixed media on canvas, 24x30, $1,400

Pat Paxson, Opposing Views, mixed media on canvas, 16x20

Pat Paxson, Phoenix and Watcher, mixed media on canvas, 36x36, $2,500

Pat Paxson, Pounce, mixed media on canvas, 16x16, $600

Pat Paxson, Raprochement, mixed media on canvas, 20x24, $900

Pat Paxson, Surprise, mixed media on canvas, 16x20, $750

Kim L Pace, Strange Encounters (8), archival pigment print on watercolor paper, 16x16, edition of 25

Paxson Artist Statement

Hudson artist Pat Paxson and British artist Kim L Pace present works that explore their individual ideas about people - their physical and mental interactions and transformations.

Paxson’s works are acrylic on canvas, and refer to states of mind, translated into line and color suggestive of dream imagery, memories, personal space and interactions. She conveys the energies involved in the psychical experiences of daily life by the use of bold line and color. The relationships between her ‘partially formed’ figures become tantalizingly close to providing a particular narrative, yet hints and suggestions are never made explicit. She has exhibited extensively in the U.S. and the U.K.

Pace makes surreal, carnivalesque works that are an investigation into ideas about identity. Her imaginative tableaux-like environments appear as fantastical settings populated with unique figures; also animals, plants and other, shifting forms. Created through a process of assemblage, her practice hinges on the tensions between the disparate elements in her works, between reality and fantasy, and the relationship between our inner lives and the physical world. She exhibits internationally.

The artists met nearly 20 years ago at Wimbledon College of Art in London where Paxson was completing an MA in Fine Art Drawing and Pace held the Linbury Fellowship in Drawing. Their common interests and friendship has led to the continuation of their dialogue over the years, in spite of, in recent years, having studios on different continents.