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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

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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.

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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

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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

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The making of “Church Man, Jazz Man.”

This piece means a great deal to me. It is a refined evolution of a work I first began during my years as an art major at Pace University @paceuniversity , revisited now with greater experience, technique, and perspective.

“Church Man, Jazz Man”
Jamel Carroll
30 × 40 in. • Oil on canvas • 2026

Currently on view in my solo exhibition, “Legacy and Lineage,” at the Bridgehampton Center @the_bridgehampton_center in Bridgehampton, New York.

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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

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Congratulations 🎉to our graduating BFA students on the opening of Junkyard: Project Studio Senior Capstone Exhibition this past Friday evening! The show remains on view through Thursday, May 14th! Please come check it out and see their amazing artworks.
#seniorexhibition #emergingartists #nycartgallery

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Install in progress! 🔨🖼️🪛

Please join us for the opening on Friday, May 1 from 5pm-7pm. ✨🌟✨

The Pace University Art Department is pleased to present Junkyard: Project Studio Senior Capstone Exhibition, featuring the work of graduating BFA students. Over the course of the semester, these artists have pursued sustained, independent investigations into their creative practices—working across sculpture, painting, video, and mixed media. The resulting exhibition showcases ambitious, thoughtful, and inventive work best experienced in person.

The exhibition at Pace University Art Gallery, 41 Park Row, opens with a free public reception on Friday, May 1, from 5:00–7:00 p.m. Visitors are invited to meet the artists, explore the work, and celebrate the culmination of their time in the program.

Featured artists from the Project Studio B class, taught by Professor Roger Sayre, include Lyndsay Askin, Abby Blackway, Spencer Blyth, Warren Carrington (Dossaboy), William Flashnick, Dominic Grasso, Cori Grodzicki, Cailey Hudnut, Lily Murphy, Joseph Polito, Krishma Sachayansrisakul, Max Sheiner, and Marie Zappia

#seniorexhibition #emergingartists #nycgallery

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We had an amazing “Careers” week in the Art Department this week with 2 extraordinary panel discussions: Career in Art History Panel
with Dejá Aaliyah Belardo and Cory Torres Bishop and Careers in the Arts with Blanka Amezkua and Cecile Chong. Thank you all for so generously sharing your wisdom with us! #careersinarthistory #careersinthearts

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Huge congrats to all of our amazing student artists in the Annual Art Student Exhibition!

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Career in Art History Panel
with Dejá Aaliyah Belardo and Cory Torres Bishop
Tuesday, April 14, 2026, 5pm
Pace University Art Gallery
41 Park Row, 1st Floor

Please join us for a Careers in Art History Panel featuring Dejá Aaliyah Belardo, Associate Curator, Visual Art and Civic Programs at The Shed and Cory Torres Bishop (He/Him) Editor, Co-Founder of FORGOTTEN LANDS.

Dejá Aaliyah Belardo (she/they) is a curator and painter based in NYC, originally from St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands. Currently, Belardo holds the position of Associate Curator, Visual Art and Civic Programs at The Shed. Belardo’s goal as a curator is to support boundary pushing artists as they establish themselves in the art historical canon, especially those who have been historically marginalized. Belardo’s professional experience has included major arts institutions in New York City like the Whitney Museum of American Art, Pace Gallery and they also completed the Museum Professionals Seminar and Arts Leadership Praxis with The Studio Museum in Harlem. They have participated in jury panels for residencies, spoken in public program panels, and worked on independent projects with various emerging artists, galleries and non-profits in the Caribbean and New York and across the U.S, as well as maintaining a studio practice of their own.

Cory Torres Bishop (He/Him) Editor, Co-Founder of FORGOTTEN LANDS. Bishop is a Crucian-Rican designer and entrepreneur working at the intersection of art and cultural preservation. He began his career as set designer for Mary Howard Studio before launching his product design and consulting practice. With an Afro-Puerto Rican mother from Harlem, Bishop’s transition from the Caribbean to New York after high school shapes his artistic perspective. Based between St. Croix and New York, he integrates diasporic narratives into his editorial work for FORGOTTEN LANDS, amplifying Caribbean voices in contemporary art and design.
#careersinarthistory

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Tonight’s the night! The Annual Art Student Exhibition opens today, Friday, April 10th with a free public reception from 5pm to 7pm. Please come celebrate with us! #studentart #nycemergingartist #nycartgallery

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