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Gallery @paceuniversityart @paceuniversity | Fall 2026 Hours, Tue-Sat 12:30pm-4:30pm + Thu until 7pm. Closed between exhibits & holidays.

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There’s still time to experience La Vaughn Belle’s extraordinary exhibition, For the Love of Fragile Things, on view through October 25. The gallery is open Tuesday through Saturday from 12:30-4:30 p.m., with extended hours on Thursdays until 7:00 p.m. We will also offer special Sunday hours on October 25, from 10:00 a.m.-2:00 p.m., for the exhibition’s final day.

“I make work about fragile things, like memory and history and what it means to be human in spaces like the one I was born into: an island space, a Black space, a colonized space,” Belle says. “A space teeming with the beauty of tropical splendor and soaked in the violence of colonial ruin.”

This exhibition and the preceding artist residency are part of Pace University’s Islands, Archipelagos, and Cultural Ecologies project, funded by the Mellon Foundation, which brings together interdisciplinary studies of the U.S. Virgin Islands, the Marshall Islands, and New York City’s 42 islands.

📸: Adam Reich
@paceuniversity @lavaughnbelle @paceuniversityartgallery @mellongrant.pace @dysoncollege #islands #nycartgallery #contemporarypainting #mellon taken in New York Times Building (41 Park Row) by @paceuniversityartgallery

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🔔 La Vaughn Belle’s artist residency and solo exhibition “For the Love of Fragile Things” at Pace University Art Gallery. Congratulations, La Vaughn Belle! 👏👏👏

📍 Pace University Art Gallery
One Pace Plaza
41 Park Row, 1st Floor
New York, NY 10038

🗓 On view until October 24

🕛 Pace University Art Gallery Hours
Monday: Closed
Tuesday–Saturday: 12:30–4 PM
Thursday: 12:30–7 PM

La Vaughn Belle was invited to participate in an artist residency at Pace University Art Gallery, during which she created a large-scale painting installation. Following the residency, Pace University Art Gallery presented a solo exhibition of her work titled “For the Love of Fragile Things.” Both the residency and exhibition were part of Pace University’s Mellon Foundation-funded project, Islands, Archipelagos, and Cultural Ecologies, an interdisciplinary initiative exploring the connections among the U.S. Virgin Islands, the Marshall Islands, and New York City’s 42 islands.

Images I - II - Between the Storm and Horizon (one world surfaces through another), 47.5 × 30 × 5.5 inches / 120 × 76 × 14 cm, acrylic on Plexiglas with cedar base, 2026.
Images III - IV - Mapping a Ceaseless Becoming (when fragments gather), 64.5 × 44 inches / 163 × 112 cm, acrylic, ink, colored pencil, collage, cuts, and burns on paper mounted on canvas, 2026. taken in Pace University by @paceuniversityartgallery

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Please join us on Thursday, September 23 at 12:15 p.m. for an artist talk and video screening with La Vaughn Belle in the Bianco Room, located on the 3rd floor of 15 Beekman Street.

Pace ID holders are welcome to attend on a drop-in basis.

Members of the public are also invited and must register in advance using the event link in the gallery bio by 10:00 a.m. on the day of the event. Public attendees should arrive at the front desk by 12:00 noon to allow time for security check-in.

We look forward to seeing you there. by @paceuniversityartgallery

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Wednesday evening, artist La Vaughn Belle be joined by curator and writer Gervais Marsh for a collective conversation in conjunction with the exhibition For the Love of Fragile Things at Pace University Art Gallery.

They imagine an artist conversation that could take a different form, one that moves between conversation, music, and choral reading. They have each been thinking about the question of who gets to be fragile, and will use that as one point of departure for a larger conversation about memory, rupture and repair, what we inherit, what we choose to hold onto, and how we might imagine otherwise.

Wednesday, September 23 | 6:30–8 PM
Pace University Art Gallery
41 Park Row, NYC

#collectiveconversation #lavaughnbelle #contemporarypainting taken in Art Department at Pace University by @paceuniversityartgallery

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Huge congratulations and heartfelt thanks to La Vaughn Belle on the opening of her new exhibition at the Pace University Art Gallery. What an honor it has been to witness this work come to fruition during her seven-week residency. Watching her vision unfold through such thoughtful and rigorous artistic practice has been truly inspiring.

@reshare_app • @lavaughnbelle I’m still taking in last night.

Thank you to everyone who came out for the opening of For the Love of Fragile Things at Pace University Art Gallery. Looking around the room, I realized I was seeing so many chapters of my life gathered in one place: friends from school in Cuba, my Columbia years, my Teach For America crew, a book club that’s been together for more than 30 years, family, collectors, artists, curators, students, and people encountering my work for the first time. And my Virgin Islands people from Twin City, Rock City, and Love City showing up for me in New York meant more than I can say.

An exhibition is never made by one person. I’m deeply grateful to Sarah Cunningham, Erica Johnson, Gervais Marsh, Emilia Cruz, Joel Wilson, our installer Jim, the gallery’s student workers, Pace University faculty and staff, the Pace Mellon grant team, and the incredible team at Bloomberg Connects who produced the exhibition’s audio guide. Thank you to everyone who helped make this residency and exhibition possible, and for the labor, care, and trust.

And a special thank you to my studio team Lydia and Gena, who keep so much moving behind the scenes and to my daughters, Isolde, Ochín and Maisara, who have lived alongside this work and all that it asks of me. 🙏🏽❤️

If you missed the opening, there’s still time:

On view through October 25, 2026
Tuesday–Saturday, 12:00–4:30 p.m. (Thursdays until 7:00 p.m.), or by appointment

In conversation with Gervais Marsh @blackofcentre: Wednesday, September 23, 6:30–8:00 p.m.
Artist talk: Thursday, September 24, 12:15 p.m., Bianco Room

I’ll be in New York through September 30.

Come, let’s reason. 🙏🏽

@paceuniversityartgallery @mellongrant.pace taken in Art Department at Pace University by @paceuniversityartgallery

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You are invited to the free public opening reception tonight, Friday, September 18, 2026, from 5:00–7:00 p.m., celebrating renowned artist La Vaughn Belle’s solo exhibition, For the Love of Fragile Things, at the Pace University Art Gallery.

“I make work about fragile things, like memory and history and what it means to be human in spaces like the one I was born into: an island space, a Black space, a colonized space,” Belle says. “A space teeming with the beauty of tropical splendor and soaked in the violence of colonial ruin.”

This exhibition and the preceding artist residency are part of Pace University’s Islands, Archipelagos, and Cultural Ecologies project, funded by the Mellon Foundation, which brings together interdisciplinary studies of the U.S. Virgin Islands, the Marshall Islands, and New York City’s 42 islands.

@paceuniversity @lavaughnbelle @paceuniversityartgallery @mellongrant.pace @dysoncollege #islands #nycartgallery #contemporarypainting #mellon taken in Art Department at Pace University by @paceuniversityartgallery

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For the fragments that rise, drift, and collide.
For the worlds we make from what remains.
For the love of fragile things.

LA VAUGHN BELLE
For the Love of Fragile Things
Pace University Art Gallery
Opening reception: September 18, 5–7 PM
Exhibition: September 19–October 25, 2026 by @paceuniversityartgallery

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I have been thinking about the Caribbean as an accumulation of times, of things carried across water, things submerged, things entangling even as they break apart.

I invite you to join me for the opening of For the Love of Fragile Things, my solo exhibition at Pace University Art Gallery.

Friday, September 18, 5–7 PM Pace University Art Gallery 41 Park Row, New York
On view September 18–October 25, 2026
@paceuniversityartgallery
#lavaughnbelle #caribbeanart #soloexhibition taken in Pace University by @paceuniversityartgallery

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Heading into the final weeks of her artist residency, the artist will return to work shortly—hopefully moving from fight into flow. Stay tuned. 😊

For the Love of Fragile Things opens September 18 at @paceuniversityartgallery and runs through October 25. by @paceuniversityartgallery

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Downtown Gallery Night returns for Armory Week. Join us Friday, September 25, 6–8PM for After Hours: one evening across 80+ participating downtown galleries and art spaces.

Download the Showrunner app to see the full list of participants, get directions, and plan your route. The evening continues with drinks at YveYANG until 9PM, sponsored by Showrunner.

Pace University Art Gallery is delighted to be participating in After Hours with the debut solo exhibition in New York City of renowned artist La Vaughn Belle, titled For the Love of Fragile Things.

“I make work about fragile things, like memory and history and what it means to be human in spaces like the one I was born into: an island space, a Black space, a colonized space,” Belle says. “A space teeming with the beauty of tropical splendor and soaked in the violence of colonial ruin.”

This exhibition and the preceding artist residency are part of Pace University's Islands, Archipelagos, and Cultural Ecologies project, funded by the Mellon Foundation, which brings together interdisciplinary studies of the U.S. Virgin Islands, the Marshall Islands, and New York City's 42 islands.

@showrunnerapp @lavaughnbelle @paceuniversityartgallery @mellongrant.pace by @paceuniversityartgallery

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SAVE THE DATE! The Pace University Art Gallery is thrilled to announce the debut solo exhibition in New York City of renowned artist La Vaughn Belle, titled For the Love of Fragile Things.

You are invited to the free public opening reception on Friday, September 18, 2026, from 5:00 p.m.–7:00 p.m.

“I make work about fragile things, like memory and history and what it means to be human in spaces like the one I was born into: an island space, a Black space, a colonized space,” Belle says. “A space teeming with the beauty of tropical splendor and soaked in the violence of colonial ruin.”

This exhibition and the preceding artist residency are part of Pace University's Islands, Archipelagos, and Cultural Ecologies project, funded by the Mellon Foundation, which brings together interdisciplinary studies of the U.S. Virgin Islands, the Marshall Islands, and New York City's 42 islands.

@paceuniversity @lavaughnbelle @paceuniversityartgallery @mellongrant.pace @dysoncollege #islands #nycartgallery #contemporarypainting #mellon by @paceuniversityartgallery

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MARK YOUR CALENDARS! The Pace University Art Gallery is delighted to announce the debut solo exhibition in New York City of renowned artist La Vaughn Belle, titled For the Love of Fragile Things.

Please join us for the exhibition opening on Friday, September 18, 2026, with a complimentary public reception from 5:00 p.m.–7:00 p.m.

“I make work about fragile things, like memory and history and what it means to be human in spaces like the one I was born into: an island space, a Black space, a colonized space,” Belle says. “A space teeming with the beauty of tropical splendor and soaked in the violence of colonial ruin.”

This exhibition and the preceding artist residency are part of Pace University's Islands, Archipelagos, and Cultural Ecologies project, funded by the Mellon Foundation, which brings together interdisciplinary studies of the U.S. Virgin Islands, the Marshall Islands, and New York City's 42 islands.

@paceuniversity @lavaughnbelle @paceuniversityartgallery @mellongrant.pace @dysoncollege #islands #nycartgallery #contemporarypainting #mellon by @paceuniversityartgallery

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