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The exhibition is presented by the gallery and the UT Tyler art program. Pace is a professor of art at UT Tyler, where he has taught since 1985. He holds master of fine arts degree from Arizona State University and a bachelor of fine arts from the University of Oklahoma. His recent works combine alternative photography with painting, printmaking and collage. These works often deal with sacrifice, a search for understanding and how political decisions affect our daily lives. His images of international terrorists become metaphors for death itself. These works have a sense of nationalistic pronouncement looking much like flags, Native American blankets, Roman banners and disposable political posters. Pace's recent exhibitions include a solo exhibition at the Longview Museum of Fine Art; a print portfolio at Flat Bed Press; exhibitions at the Parkside National in Wisconsin; America's 2000 at the Northwest Art Center; 15th National Printmaking Exhibition at the Labland Gallery in Los Angeles; The Biennial in New Cannan, Conn.; Song of Images in New Delhi, India. Other recent exhibitions include invitationals at Baylor University, Mesa University, Arizona State University, Auburn University, Florida State University, The Museum of East Texas, Tyler Museum of Art, The University of Oklahoma and the Dallas Museum of Art. His work is in numerous collections including the Fogg Museum at Harvard University, Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art and several others. Pace was appointed to the Oge' Professorship in Visual Art in 1999 and the White Fellowship for Excellence in Teaching in 1998. He received the Chancellor's Council Teaching Award in 1996.
Pace regularly lectures at universities and museums as well as international conferences on topics ranging from contemporary aesthetics to the conceptual development of his personal works. He serves as a visiting artist to art centers, universities and private art institutes. For more information
contact Duane I. Johnson, gallery director, at (903) 566-7483.
Contact
person: Emily Battle,
(903) 565-5604
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"Prayer
Flags,'' recent works by James Robert Pace, began Aug. 19 and continues
through Oct. 1 at The Meadows Gallery. 
He
has received numerous awards for his paintings, drawings and prints
at nationally competitive exhibitions. He was awarded a National
Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, two University Research Grants
and has participated in the Tamarind Printmaking Program. 