Pam Evelyn: The Wild Asphalt

About the exhibition

Nine new canvases hang with works on paper made in the past year, in Pam Evelyn's first solo exhibition in Korea. The canvases are abstract, built up in oil paint that is dripped, scraped back and layered. Pace says they respond to scenes in London: sunset on concrete, graffiti, buildings mirrored in big windows. Titles such as Figure and Tower and Sun between Stone point to them, though Evelyn says nothing in the work is depicted or identified.

The works on paper combine watercolor, acrylic, pastel, charcoal, ink and collage, with more transparency and open space than the paintings. Pace says this is its first exhibition to include them.

Evelyn made the works in London and during a September 2026 residency at Dragon Hill on the French Riviera. Evelyn says "each painting always offers up new problems."

About the artist

Pam Evelyn (b. 1996, Surrey, United Kingdom) is a painter living and working in London. Evelyn holds a BFA from the Slade School of Fine Art (2019) and an MA in Painting from the Royal College of Art (2020), won the Cass Art Prize in 2019 and received a Visual Arts Fellowship at the Watermill Center in New York in 2025. Recent shows include Frame of Mind at Pace in New York (2024), Salvaged Future at Dallas Contemporary (2025–26) and the NGV Triennial in Melbourne (2026). Public collections holding the work include Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo in Turin and the National Gallery of Victoria.

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