Current Exhibition
Paul Pagk
The drawings of Paul Pagk, created as a daily practice, may seem at first spontaneous and even slightly nonchalant, but a more sustained viewing reveals a great mastery of line, color and sensation. Pagk seeks to articulate the notions of poetics, time and space. Each drawing generates a field of visual tension between intimacy and immensity, geometry and organic forms, strength and fragility. The lines and varied reflective surfaces created by the multiple materials employed (dry pastels and bold, graphite, gouache, watercolor, marble...) open a visual field emanating light and atmosphere, a narrative space that the viewer - with his own background - can further elaborate on. Pagk avoids perfect executions, smooth surfaces and perpendicular lines. It is precisely the imperfections, the unexpected and the surrealism that make his work so intense and attractive.
Paul Pagk was born in England in 1962, then lived in Vienna and France. At the age of 26, the Anglo-American artist moved to New York, where he still works today. While being based in Manhattan, Pagk never fully shed his European affinities, which he acquired during his childhood spent in museums and during his studies at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris. Working with supports and materials as diverse as paper and linen canvas, pencil, watercolor, gouache, soft and oil pastels, and oil paints, Pagk creates visual, intellectual, and meditative spaces that engage both body and mind.
The art of Paul Pagk is deeply conscious of the history of abstraction and minimalism, but resolutely contemporary in his conceptual and pictorial approach.
PAUL PAGK
British American Artist
Born in the UK, 1962
Lived in England, Austria, France
Lives and works in New York since 1988.
Lived in England, Austria, France and lives and works in New York since 1988.
EDUCATION
1978 to 1982: École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
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, USA
2011
Mesquite drawings, Some Walls, Oakland, CA, USA
2010
Recent paintings, My red maybe your orange, even, Galerie Eric Dupont, Paris, France
2009
Children of the Revolution Cosmic Sex Poem, Exhibition, New York, USA
2008
Home is where the heart is, Baukunst Galerie, Köln, Germany
2007
Recent Paintings, Gallery Eric Dupont , Paris, France
To K from P with love, Markus Winter, Berlin, Germany
Aftermath & lexicon, Moti Hasson Gallery, New York, USA
2005
Open Project Space, New York, USA
Galerie Eric Dupont, Paris, France
2003
Batlle Pagk curated by Adrian Dannatt, Thomas Erben Gallery, New York, USA
2002
Galerie Eric Dupont, Paris, France
2000
Galerie Eric Dupont, Paris, France
Galeries des études, ENAD Limoges-Aubusson, France
1999
MACC, Fresnes, France
Le 10neuf, C.R.A.C. Montbéliard, France
1998
Galerie Eric Dupont, Paris, France
CRG Gallery, New York, USA
1995
CRG Gallery, New York, USA
1994
Galerie Eric Dupont, Toulouse, France
1993
Thread Waxing Space, New York, USA
1992
Galerie Eric Dupont, Toulouse, France
1991
Thread Waxing Space, New York, USA
1987
Galerie Jean Fournier, Paris, France
1986
Galerie Simone L'Hermitte, Rouen, France
1984
Jean-Marie Monthiers, Paris, France
A.P.A.C. Montpelier, France
GROUP
2018
Introspection: Paul Pagk / Warner Berckmans, Artelli Gallery Brussels
The Idiosyncratic Pencil, curated by Ann Stoddard, Harper Center for the Arts, SC, USA
Courant à contre-courant, curated by Emmanuel Lesgougues, Collection Quasar, Peyrehorade, France
2017
Lunchbox Fund Benefit, NYC, USA,
EXIL: Paul Pagk, Carlos Kusnir, Hyun Soo Choi, Damien Cabanes, Siobhan Liddell, Galerie Eric Dupont, Paris, France
Goerk / Grytting / Pagk / Welish, ART 3 Silas Von Morisse Gallery, Brooklyn, USA
Summer installation of works by gallery artists Eileen Quinlan, Paul Pagk, Pieter Schoolwerth, Blake Rayne, Rochelle Goldberg, Miguel Abreu Gallery, NYC, USA
Social Photography V, Carriage Trade, NYC, USA
Art Brussels 2017, Galerie Eric Dupont, France
Drawing Now Paris 2017, Galerie Eric Dupont, France
2016
Visages de la ligne, Frac Picardie, Amiens, France
Sequence 6: one work, one week Rochelle Goldberg, Paul Pagk, Aaron Flint Jamison, Pieter Schoolwerth, Miguel Abreu Gallery, NYC, USA PPP Painters Painting on Paper @ Schema Projects, Brooklyn, USA
Mamie Holst and Paul Pagk, presented by Jane Kim 33 Orchard, NYC, USA
5x5, Edward Thorp Gallery, NYC, USA
Osamu Kobayashi and Paul Pagk, Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami, Florida, USA
2015
The 40th Anniversary Exhibition, Hal Bromm Gallery, NYC, USA
The Abstract Body, curated by Craig Stockwell, The Sharon Arts Centre, Peterborough, NH, USA
ON PAPER Mamie Holst and Paul Pagk, presented by Jane Kim, 33 Orchard, NYC, USA
2014
Material Way, curated by Kathleen Kucka, Shirley Fitterman Art Gallery BMCC, NYC, USA
(S)ITATIONS La beauté devient avant-garde une passion privée, Musée de Sarrebourg, Sarrebourg, France
Summer Show, Focus on Painting, FL Gallery Milan, Italy
Pipe Dreams, Wishful Thinking, Grand Gestures & Dirty Lies, ACE Project Space. NYC, USA
Brooklyn Bridge, curated by Justine Frischmann, George Lawson Gallery, SF, USA
2013
Social Photography III, Carriage Trade, NYC, USA
Come Together: Surviving Sandy, Year 1, curated by Phong Bui, Dedalus foundation, Brooklyn, USA
la main invente le dessin, centre culturel de rencontre, abbaye de Saint-Riquier, France
Four Tet, Jim Comtempori, Barcelona, Spain
Emergence, A Proposition by: Katrin Bremermann, Erin Lawlor & Yifat Gat, Hôtel de Sauroy, Paris, France
Wit, curated by Joanne Freeman, Painting Center, New York, USA
2012
Around the corner, Four Painters Living in Tribeca: Hermine Ford, Joanne Greenbaum, Paul Pagk, Gary Stephan, organized by Lucien Terras, New York, USA
Line and Plane, McKenzie Fine Art, New York, USA
Surface Affect, Miguel Abreu Gallery, New York, USA
Wavers, curated by EJ Hauser and Rob Nadeau, Brooklyn, USA
2011
Social Photography II, Carriage Trade, NYC, USA
A Romance of many Dimensions, curated by Brent Hallard, BrooklynArtistGym, Brooklyn, USA
A Review, Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, USA
A few of my favorite things, The End, Brooklyn, USA
70 Years of Abstract Painting – Excerpts, Jason McCoy inc. New York, USA
Paper A-Z, Sue Scott Gallery, New York, USA
Geometric Days, curated by Papo Colo, Jeanette Ingberman, and Herb Tam, Exit Art, New York, USA
2010
Social Photography I, Carriage Trade, NYC, USA
Painting and Sculpture, Foundation for Contemporary Art Benefit, Lehmann Maupin, New York, USA
Informal Relations curated by Scott Grow, Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art, Indianapolis, USA
Geometric Progressions, Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, USA
Lush Life, curated by Franklin Evans and Omar Lopez-Chahoud, Scaramouche, New York, USA
2009
A fleur de peau II – Le dessin à l’épreuve, Galerie Eric Dupont, Paris, France
2008
Present, curated by Jay Murphy, HP Garcia Gallery, New York, France
Group Show, Galerie Eric Dupont, Paris, France
Untitled (On Paper), Moti Hasson Gallery, New York, USA
2007
Inside the Pale, curated by Frank Schroder, Thrust Projects, New York, USA
Orthodoxe/Hétérodoxe: choisir sa ligne, Le 10neuf, C.R.A.C. Monbéliard, France
Beyond the Pale, curated by Candice Madey and Tairone Bastien, Moti Hasson Gallery, New York, USA
2006
Trait, ligne, écrire l’espace, F.R.A.C Beauvais, France
Twist it Twice, curated by Franklin Evans, Moti Hasson Gallery, New York, USA
Hands up/Hand down, Miguel Abreu Gallery, New York, USA
A fleur de peau, Galerie Eric Dupont, Paris, France
2005
Excès de traits, Frac Picardie , Amiens, France
2003
Le Cabinet 2, curated by Ann Philbin, FRAC Picardie, Amiens, France
Le Cabinet 1, curated by Gabriel Orozco, FRAC Picardie, Amiens, France
2002
Zenroxy, curated by Ivan Vera, Von Lintel Gallery, New York, USA
2001
Galerie Martagon, Malacène, France
Recent acquisitions, FRAC Picardie, Amiens, France
2000
Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, Massachusetts, USA
1998
C.R.A.C., Montbéliard, France
1997
New York Draws, Gas-Works, London, and then Corner House, Manchester, UK
Current under current, Brooklyn Museum, New York, USA
1996
Drawings, AC Project Room, New York, USA
Works on Paper, Alona Kagan & Jose Martos, New York, USA
Other Rooms, Ronald Feldman Gallery, New York, USA
1995
Metamorphose Part II, Guillaume Gallozzi, New York, USA
Summer Exhibition, CRG Gallery, New York, USA
1994
Logo Non Logo, curated by Robert C. Morgan and Pierre Restany, Thread Waxing Space,
New
York, and then to University of South Florida, USA
Centre Lotois D'Art Contemporain, Figeac, France
Written-Spoken-Drawn in Lacanian Ink, curated by Raphael Rubinstein, Thread Waxing Space, New York, USA
Drawings, Galerie Regards, Paris, France
1993
Intérieurs, Musée Goya, Castres, France
1990
Abstract Painting, curated by Robert C. Morgan, Nahan Contemporary, New York, USA
Three Painters, curated by Timothy Nye & Miguel Abreu, 470 Broome Street, New York, USA
1988
Galerie Jacques Girard, Toulouse, France
Park Floral de Paris, Paris, France
1987
Carte Blanche à Yves Michaud, CREDAC, Ivry, France
Centre Culturel de Brétigny, Brétigny-sur-Orge, France
1986
L'Epure, curated by Yves Michaud, Galerie Beau Lézard, Paris, France
1984
Journées Jeunes Créateurs, Espace Kiron, Paris, France
Sur Invitation, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, France
Galerie Jean Fournier, Paris, France
1983
55 Panoyaux, Paris, France
AWARDS AND GRANTS
2014
Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptures Grant
2012
Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant
Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation Individual Support Grant
2000
Sheldon Bergh Award
1998
Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant
1987
Prix Fenéon, Université de la Sorbonne
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
New York Presbyterian-Cornell Hospital, New York, USA
Fonds National D'Art Contemporain (FNAC), France
Le Bon Marché (LVMH group), Paris, France
Springfield Museum of Art, Ohio, USA
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, USA
L'Artotec Limoges, France
FRAC Picardie, France
"Les Abattoirs", Musée de Toulouse, France
Ville de Brétigny-sur-Orge, France
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