Paulo Pasta: passages
3 September - 1 November 2025
David Nolan Gallery
24 East 81 Street, New York

One of Brazil's most influential living painters (CV), Paulo Pasta (b. 1959 in São Paulo) will be the subject of a new solo exhibition this September through November at David Nolan Gallery (a block from the Met), featuring new paintings and titled passages.

Collected by major museums internationally -- and a mentor to contemporary artists including Lucas Arruda -- Pasta’s imagined spaces embrace Geometric Abstraction through the lens of a rich, Brazil-inspired color palette. 

Whether the form of small “pocket paintings” 5 inches in width or large-scale canvases 70 inches in width, the tonal transitions in Pasta's geometric works retain their painterly hand when viewed closely. Though his surfaces appear smooth and minimal, they are in fact the result of complex chromatic layering, built up with hand-mixed oil paints to achieve precise tones. In certain areas, the paint accumulates into a visible relief, adding further dimensionality to the canvas.

More information is in the above-linked press release, and a preview of works on view is below. See the Dropbox folder linked above to download high-resolution image files. Artwork information is in each image’s file title. Image reuse must be credited as “courtesy of David Nolan Gallery and copyright of the artist,” unless otherwise noted in the file title.