OPENING DAY
SATURDAY, JULY 3, 2021
1-6PM

ON VIEW
JULY 3 - 31, 2021

FOR INQUIRIES
Please contact hello@chefasprojects.com

Pace Taylor is an artist emotionally preoccupied with Intimacy, and who we choose to share it with. Their work is often quiet, very queer, and eternally vulnerable. They received their BFA in Digital Arts from the University of Oregon (2015). Pace lives and works in Portland, OR.

“My drawings are constructions of intimacy between people, specifically, all types. I build the images from found photographs of assumed queers from past decades, both alone and in the company of others. Through the translation from photograph to drawing, I invite a false memory to distort their bearings, bringing them into my world and covering them in planes of mutable soft pastel and the warmth and weight of lead. As memory and time distort appearance, the body becomes both a fixation and something inconsequential. Just an emotional shadow, vibrating color. In a rejection of the Binary, the body acts as a hesitation for the viewer; an opportunity to project their own experience of being in the world; an offer to be held by another’s language.” -Pace Taylor

Opening day will be held at Stephanie Chefas Projects on Saturday, July 3rd from 1-6pm. Masks are required and social distancing practices are encouraged. Stephanie Chefas Projects is located in Portland, Oregon at 305 SE 3rd Avenue on the second floor of the Urban Row building. The exhibition will be on view through July 3 - 31, 2021 and is free and open to the public.

ARTWORK

© Stephanie Chefas Projects
Photo credit: Mario Gallucci