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The inaugural exhibition at Pace’s 510 West 25th Street location will explore the gallery’s commitment to contemporary art today, highlighting artists as they articulate new ways of defining, navigating, and interpreting their world in the increasingly global context of the 21st century. Featured works include Chuck Close’s Zhang Huan I, 2008; Fred Wilson’s Iago’s Mirror, 2009; Antoni Tàpies’ Particules I Ones, 2007, created by the Catalan master in his early 80s; Robert Whitman’s explorations of planetary light, movement, and space in his digital projection Ganymede, created from video footage obtained from NASA; Zhang Xiaogang’s emotionally stirring Comrades, 2006, which grapples with the individual and collective memories of the Cultural Revolution; Hiroshi Sugimoto’s Henry VIII, 1999, and his six wives; and Tim Hawkinson’s Sherpa, 2008, a life-sized single cylinder two-stroke engine motorcycle constructed out of eight varieties of feathers. Important works by Tara Donovan, Rosalyn Drexler Tim Eitel, Tony Feher, Tim Hawkinson, Alex Katz, Maya Lin, Carsten Nicolai, Thomas Nozkowski, Fiona Rae, Michal Rovner, Sterling Ruby, Richard Serra, James Siena, Keith Sonnier, Keith Tyson, and Corban Walker, among others, will also be included.

                         Antoni Tàpies,Partícules i Ones                Zhang Xiaogang, Comrades                
                         2007,mixed media on wood,                            2006,oil on canvas
                                 8' 2-1/4 x 9' 10-1/8"                                       43-1/4 x 51-1/8"

Since its origins in Boston in 1960, The Pace Gallery has been a vital force in the art world and the locus through which many artists’ work has reached the public. In five decades, the gallery has produced nearly 700 exhibitions and has published nearly 350 exhibition catalogues with contributions by some of the most renowned historians and critics of the 20th and 21st centuries. The gallery’s dedication to historical and scholarly exhibitions is accompanied by a strong commitment to the art of the 21st century and beyond. Today, The Pace Gallery encompasses four locations in New York, as well as Pace Beijing, a 25,000 square foot gallery in the heart of Beijing’s 798 Art District. The Pace family also includes Pace/MacGill, specializing in photography; Pace Prints & Pace Master Prints, focusing on limited edition works on paper from the 15th to 21st centuries; and Pace Primitive, dedicated to African, Himalayan, Oceanic, and Native American tribal art.

To coincide with its 50th anniversary this year, Pace has launched thepacegallery.com, an encyclopedic search-based site culled from the gallery’s extensive archives which allows visitors to peruse a living archive of 50 years (and counting) of The Pace Gallery.

Concurrent with 50 Years at Pace, Pace Prints and Pace Primitive will present the joint exhibition Louise Nevelson Prints and Multiples 1953-1983, featuring etchings, lithographs, cast paper pulp pieces, and lead intaglio pieces. Pace/MacGill will highlight a selection of the finest photographers and works that have exhibited in the gallery, including seminal photographs by Alfred Stieglitz, Paul Strand, Charles Sheeler, and Edward Weston. Opening receptions will be held on Thursday, September 16th from 5:30-9 p.m. to coincide with the opening of 50 Years at Pace.