Front and Back, 2023( Poster)

  Dimensions:24h x 18w inExhibition poster for:Julian Pace‘Front and Back’03/02 → 04/06 2023DTLAPress release:For “Front and Back,” Julian Pace focuses upon the broad bodies of professional basketball players, a subject he has spent many years capturing. And yet, for the artist, this choice of subject is somewhat arbitrary. While some viewers may be drawn to depictions of the celebrated athletes, to Pace, the men captured have a simple use function: to allow Pace to toy with the limits of composition and form in an iterative process of doing and re-doing, from sketch to painting to even more painting. Although stylized with deep shadows and darkened lines, and exaggerated with enlarged torsos and epic arms, the figures retain a sense of humanity and even vulnerability in the exhibition’s large-scale oil and acrylic paintings as well as the colored pencil and gouache on paper pieces. In Ewing, 2022, the greatest center in Knicks history appears subtly contemplative, his pink cheeks lend