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ACME Fine Art's GRAND OPENING in new and expanded galleries at 38 Newbury Street, Boston, is being held in conjunction with the Opening Reception of ACME's Fall season. The event will be held from 6:00 to 8:00 in the evening on Friday, 8 September 2006. The featured exhibition is titled: The Abstract Expressionist Paintings of STEPHEN PACE. In addition to the primary exhibition, the gallery will feature an exhibition titled: SMALL WONDERS, that will consist of a fine group of powerful, yet diminutive abstract expressionist paintings by contemporaries of Stephen Pace.

One of the most renowned art journalists of the 20th century, Thomas Hess, described Stephen Pace in 1961 as "a brilliant member of the second generation of the New York School painters that burst onto the scene, in the early 1950s, fully made, as from the head of the Statue of Liberty." Since his debut in New York in the late 1940s Pace's work has been highly acclaimed and widely collected.

ACME Fine Art's first solo exhibition of the work of Stephen Pace will focus on Pace's brilliantly conceived mid-century abstract expressionist paintings. The exhibition will consist of a group of fifteen important oils on canvas that date from between 1950 and 1959. During this period Pace's work was regularly included in the Annual exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art, and also in group exhibitions at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, the Carnegie Institute, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, the Walker Art Center, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, and the Museum of Modern Art. This period of Pace's career also coincides with his time spent in Provincetown, Massachusetts, where his work was frequently shown at the Nat Halper's H.C.E. Gallery.

Today Pace's work is in the permanent collections of such notable institutions as the National Academy of Design, the Portland Museum of Art (Maine), the Phillips Collection, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art. There has been a great deal written about Stephen Pace and his work during the course of his illustrious career. Gallery Director, David Cowan's preparatory research for this exhibition uncovered an abundance of essays and reviews written contemporaneously and since.

The fully illustrated exhibition catalogue produced in conjunction with the show has been organized using the words extracted from essays and reviews - of such notable personalities as Hans Hofmann, Martica Sawin, Frank O'Hara, and Dore Ashton to enhance the reader/viewer's understanding of the artist and his work.

ACME Fine Art's exhibition: The Abstract Expressionist Paintings of STEPHEN PACE, opens on Friday, 8 September and will run through Saturday, 7 October 2006 at ACME Fine Art's 38 Newbury Street gallery , in Boston's Back Bay.

Please contact the gallery at 617.585.9551, or via e-mail at info@acmefineart.com for further information.

SEE SELECTION OF WORKS - PACE

SEE SELECTION OF WORKS - SMALL WONDERS