Pace Taylor: The Nights are Now presents pastel drawings that render grief's instability legible — its spinning between agony, resignation, relief, and joy. Figures appear fractured and in flux: heads cropped, bodies caught between human and animal, limbs contorted around torsoless forms. Vivid, high-contrast colors drawn from Fauvism and German Expressionism serve emotion over description, while fluid gestural linework keeps the eye in constant motion. There is no punctum, no singular focal point — only the entirety of the plane, the cacophony of disparate colors expressing the vastness of human experience. The title and many painting names are borrowed from Sharon Van Etten's music.
