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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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Our Reconciliation and Transitional Justice class spent time with the luminescent artwork of La Vaughn Belle to consider the legacies of colonialism in the Caribbean. Grateful for this tremendous resource at our Pace University Art Gallery and the support of the Mellon Foundation.

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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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Just two weeks left to see my solo exhibition, For the Love of Fragile Things, at Pace University Art Gallery in New York.

Here’s a glimpse of how some of the works came into being.

On view through October 25, 2026.
Tuesday–Saturday, 12–4:30 pm
Thursdays until 7 pm
Also open by appointment.
@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.

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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

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So much to see!

1. Artist @kandyglopez & model @dianaeusebiostudio beneath Eusebio’s portrait in Lopez’s show “Taking Up Space” @acagalleries
2. @esperanzacortes11 in her show “Embroidered Allegories” @hispanic_society
3. The legendary @susanweilk with her work from 1972-2026 in her show “Moving in Time Space” @sundaramtagore
4. @eddierodolfoaparicio @jeffreydeitchgallery
5. @lavaughnbelle explores the horizon in a large-scale painting installation developed during the artist’s residency @paceuniversityartgallery
6. @mikecloudartist @thomaserbengallery
7. @emaesmith @petzelgallery
8. @rossbleckner @petzelgallery
9. @howiemichels @ahugfromtheartworld
10. @jamesesber @satchelprojects
11. @pollyapfelbaum & @studiostanallen with highlights of their collection @natlacademy

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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

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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

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Lovelies,
I love art and will travel for it!! If you love art and are in the NYC area or want to fly in, this needs to be on your itinerary for September 18th. @lavaughnbelle will open her first solo show in NYC @paceuniversityartgallery I am beyond thrilled. #blackwomenarethebalm #art #blackartistmatter

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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.

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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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Blasian March Drag Show? YES PLEASE! Tickets in b1o!

Join us Sept. 16th, 6-10 PM at the Crown Rooftop, 50 Bowery, 21st Floor, New York NY, 10013.

Your support will help our upcoming Blasian Book Fair in Cleveland, OH, which provides free books from Black and Asian writers, a documentary project, and general operations.

Flyer by @eaudeamaranthine
This action is made possible through our partnership with @naaraknyc and the support of @pifilmfestnyc A rainbow flyer with a disco ball. Text reads Blasian March Fundraiser. Drag Show, Raffle, & Joy! September 16 | 6-20 PM @ The Crown Rooftop 50 Bowery, 21st Floor New York, NY 10013

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