Keith Haring: Black, White, and Red All Over

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Pace Prince is pleased to announce Keith Herring Black,
White and Red All Over, an exhibition of prints and
editions by the Pop Art icon on view from November 22nd to
December 21st, 2024 at 536 W 22nd St.
An opening reception will be held at the gallery on Thursday,

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November 21st from 6:00 to 8:00 PM.
Taking its name from the well known newspaper Riddle, Keith
Herring Black, White and Red AllOver gathers works from 1985 to
1989 and makes reference to the artist S unflinching artistic
engagement with the pressing socio political concerns of the
time. Imagery and dialogue with the

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artist S activism appears throughout the exhibition,
addressing themes central to hiswork.
During this period, many of the artist S most recognizable
motifs are present elastic dancing figures, the radiant
baby, barking dogs, among other essential symbols and characters
from his extraordinary visual vocabulary.

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These prints exemplify his signature graphic style in a
palette of black, white and red,showcasing Herring S print over
at its most direct and compelling, pulsing with energy
and life. Known for his affinity towards
reproducible mediums, Herring S work is represented in a breadth
of printmaking techniques, including lithography, aquatint,

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woodcut, and silkscreen. Rare large scale prints like
Retrospect 1989 and Untitled 1986 harness Herring S narrative
power in engrossing black and white compositions, imbuing the
many fantastical figures with anapproachable comic book
sensibility that is undercut by their radically subversive

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subject matter. The anti apartheid triptych
Untitled 1231985 features iconicimagery from the artist S free
South Africa series, which he widely distributed as protest
posters in New York City in 1986.
Two unique iterations of the artist S Totem series will also

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be on view. Presented as both a woodcut on
three sheets and a wall relief cast in concrete, these two
works alongside stones one to Five 1989 show the ways in which
Herring S pop iconography was influenced by Aztec, Mayan,
North African and indigenous imagery developing into his

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signature style. Also at Pace Prints, in keeping
with the spirit of the artist S iconic retail space, The Pop
Shop, which opened in 1986 and sought to keep Herring S artwork
accessible to all specially designed merchandise and
apparel, will be available for purchase at the gallery

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throughout the course of the exhibition.
About Keith Herring Keith Herring was born on May 4th,
1958 in Reading, PA. In 1978, Herring moved to New
York City and enrolled in the School of Visual Arts.
It was there that he found a thriving alternative art
community developing outside of the gallery and museum system,

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with events and exhibitions taking place in the downtown
streets, subways, and nightclubs.
In 1990, at the age of 31, KeithHaring died of AIDS related
illnesses in New York. Since his death, his work has
been the subject of several international retrospectives.

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His work is in major private andpublic collections including the
Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art,
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Art Institute of
Chicago, the Base Museum Miami, Center, George's Poppy Do and
Musee D Art Modern Paris, LudwigMuseum Cologne, and Stedelich

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Museum Amsterdam. The special exhibition Keith
Herring Art is for Everybody debuted at the Broad in Los
Angeles in 2023 and traveled to the Art Gallery of Ontario in
Toronto and the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis in 2024.
The exhibition Andy Warhol and Keith Herring Party of Life is

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currently on view at Museum Brand Horst in Munich, Germany
through January 26th, 2025. About Pace Prints Pace Prints
has been a leading publisher andgallery of original fine art
prints, mono prints and multiplesince 1968 in the Pace Editions

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and Pace Paper Studios. Pace Prints offers artists the
expertise, facilities and resources to create boundary
breaking original work in a broad range of printmaking
techniques from the traditional to cutting edge, innovative and
hybrid approaches. Pace Prince Gallery, now located
at 536 W 22nd St. in Chelsea, isa premier exhibition space

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dedicated to fostering educationand connoisseurship about prints
to art lovers and collectors. Pace Prince is a member of the
Art Dealers Association of America, ADAA and the
International Fine Print DealersAssociation, IFTA.