Pace Prints presents Rainbow Dreams by Alteronce Gumby, a series of seven unique paper works for ADAA Fair 2026, November 12–16 at the Park Avenue Armory, Booth B3. In his new series of pulp paintings on handmade paper, Gumby reimagines the kaleidoscopic rainbow by way of intuition, memory, and experimentation. Through gestural bands of color flecked with quartz and topaz shards, Gumby’s dense material surfaces become a meeting place—an intersection of hue and refracted light, a prismatic exploration of color as both a physical phenomenon and a gateway to speculative worlds beyond.
Referencing artists like Alma Thomas, Sam Gilliam, and Mary Heilmann, Gumby abstracts his color work outside the realm of earthly cognition. For Gumby, the rainbow is a point of departure rather than a destination, positing the question: What might a rainbow look like beneath another atmosphere or on an exoplanet orbiting a distant star?
At ADAA Fair 2026, we invite our visitors to look closely at these surfaces and ponder the same possibilities, imagining how chromatic light might unfold differently under otherworldly skies. Pace Prints will exhibit Rainbow Dreams in Booth B3.
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About Alteronce Gumby
Alteronce Gumby explores color as a means of expanding perceptions of form, identity, and the relationship between Earth and cosmic space. Working across painting, ceramics, installation, performance, and film, Gumby employs a luminous spectrum of iridescent colors to examine how we see and experience the world. Inspired by the cosmos, his practice connects an interest in astronomy with an investigation of color and materiality. His works invite viewers to reconsider the boundaries of abstraction and the ways color shapes our understanding of ourselves and our surroundings. Extending these concerns into film, his first documentary features, COLOR and COLOR in Nature, made in collaboration with writer and director John Campbell, explore the diverse ways color is experienced around the world.
Based in New York City, Gumby has exhibited at Nicola Vassell Gallery, Hauser & Wirth, and Gagosian, with solo exhibitions including Prince of the Far Rainbow at Nicola Vassell Gallery and Walk on the Moon at Deitch Gallery in Los Angeles. He holds a BFA from Hunter College and an MFA in Painting and Printmaking from the Yale School of Art. His first monograph, Color Is a Beautiful Thing, was published by Charles Moffett and False Flag in 2021.