The Enduring Muses of Julian Pace Debuts in Europe

Since he came into the contemporary art consciousness in the midst of the pandemic in 2020, Julian Pace has been playing with form. Not just how a body looks, but also what the memory does to form. When he paints his large-scale canvases, he bases them on the smallest of Moleskine drawings. And the large-scale works are just that; larger than life, proportioned to be larger than the viewer, and thus, thrusting the icon, whether it be pop-cultural or historic, into an almost intimidating and audacious relationship with the viewer. To be familiar with the subjects is quite important, though, but not essential.