On the occasion of Chuck Close and Pulp, Pace Prints invites you to attend a conversation between Ruth Lingen, Founding Director of Pace Paper, and Terrie Sultan, author of Chuck Close Prints: Process and Collaboration.
The event will take place on Thursday, March 5 from 5-6pm in our gallery at 536 West 22nd Street.
The dialogue will focus on the processes and techniques behind Close's paper-pulp works and delve into the history of the artist’s involvement with the medium.
About Terrie Sultan
Terrie Sultan has more than 40 years of experience as a museum professional. She served as Director of the Parrish Art Museum (2008 – 2020) and as Director of Blaffer Art Museum at the University of Houston (2000 – 2008). She was the Curator of Contemporary Art at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, (1988 - 2000) and Director of External Affairs at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York (1985 – 1988).
She has organized more than 50 exhibitions in her career, including Chuck Close Prints: Process and Collaboration which debuted at the Blaffer Art Museum in 2003, and traveled to 20 museums throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia through 2014. In addition to Chuck Close Prints: Process and Collaboration, publications she has authored include Rod Penner: Paintings, 1987-2022 (2023); Thomas Joshua Cooper: Refuge (2019); and Damaged Romanticism: A Mirror of Modern Emotion (2008). She was awarded the Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Arts et Lettres by the Government of France in 2003. As Director of the Parrish Art Museum Sultan completed a $33 million campaign for a new facility designed by Herzog & de Meuron that opened in 2012. She founded her independent curatorial and strategic planning consulting firm Art Museum Strategies in 2021.
About Ruth Lingen
Ruth Lingen lives and works in New York City, where she has established a distinguished thirty-year career as a master printer, papermaker, and book artist. She has collaborated with over 80 celebrated artists and writers, including Chuck Close, Kiki Smith, Leonardo Drew, Shepard Fairey, Robert Ryman, Mary Heilmann, Jessica Stockholder, Jane Hammond, Jim Dine, Claes Oldenburg, and writers Reginald Dwayne Betts, Edward Hirsch and Robert Creeley.
As the founding director of Pace Paper (the Gowanus, Brooklyn papermaking facility for Pace Prints) from 2008 through the present, she has worked with a number of artists, including Leonardo Drew, Chuck Close, and more. Through these projects, she has brought to life a wide breadth of editions of paper/print multiples, as well as unique and dimensional paper works.
She has received lifetime achievement awards in both papermaking and the book arts. Her work can be found in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Getty, the Brooklyn Museum, the Walker Museum, as well as over 35 libraries, including the New York Public Library and the Harvard University Library.
Her Artist Book Archive was recently acquired by the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library at UCLA.
