Sandra Marchewa and Paul Young — artists, framers and co-owners of Pace Framing — consistently maintain a challenging exhibition space that champions local artists with a distinct mix of modesty, sensitivity and acute aesthetic intelligence. Their former space, on North Grand Boulevard, featured a sliver of a window gallery that posed a unique challenge to the artists invited to create an installation. The framery's new Washington Avenue digs offer more space; despite the more conventional configuration, Pace's penchant for nuance and experimentation prevails. Notable show after notable show — from Bruce Burton's elegant wunderkammer of design ephemera and found objects to Peter Pranschke's trove of paper-based creations to Alex Elmestad's reflective cube that could only be perceived from the building's exterior — demonstrate that there is something about the nature of this space that nurtures resourceful creativity. Pace is an understated gem that promises to endure in its quiet advocacy of challenging the local status quo.
Philip Slein Gallery
| Oct 14, 2020
Supplementary Galleries at Saint Louis Art Museum
| Sep 30, 2015
Philip Slein Gallery
| Sep 25, 2014
Blank Space
| Sep 26, 2013
Good Citizen Gallery
| Sep 27, 2012
The Luminary Center for the Arts
| Sep 22, 2011
Boots Contemporary Art Space
| Sep 30, 2009
White Flag Projects
| Sep 24, 2008
Ellen Curlee Gallery
| Sep 26, 2007
Hoffman LaChance Fine Art
| Sep 27, 2006
Mad Art Gallery
| Sep 29, 2005
Philip Slein Gallery
| Sep 29, 2004
Philip Slein Gallery
| Sep 29, 2004
Washington University Gallery of Art
| Sep 24, 2003
Washington University Gallery of Art
| Sep 24, 2003
Mad Art Gallery
| Sep 26, 2001
Mad Art Gallery
| Sep 26, 2001