Irby Pace

Photographer Irby Pace presents urban streets, picturesque landscapes, and abandoned spaces as mysterious, surreal cinematic scenes. Inspired French scientist and photographer Étienne-Jules Marey’s use of innovative smoke machines in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, Pace uses colorful clouds of smoke to alter his physical surroundings. Utilizing the emergence of catastrophe and the fascination of the strange, Pace’s photographs fixate on blurring the boundaries between real and unreal. Irby Pace visualizes how smoke can interrupt a landscape's natural space in an ever-changing yet temporary manner.

Irby Pace was born in Odessa, Texas. In 2005 he moved to Lubbock, Texas to attended Texas Tech University where he received his BFA in Photography. He received his MFA from The University of North Texas in 2012. His work has been featured in Wired Magazine, The Huffington Post, Ripley’s Believe it or Not, The Dallas Observer, Paper City, Patron, among other sites, blogs, and online magazines. Pace’s work was featured on the cover of the November 2013 issue of The Dallas Observer. In 2012 he was awarded “The Best of 2012: Best Art Heist” and was considered one of “The 12 Most Newsworthy Moments of 2012.”  Irby Pace is represented by Galleri Urbane in Dallas, Texas. Pace currently works as a motion designer, animator, video editor, and cinematographer in the greater Huston area.

“Photography has the capability to capture our most ephemeral experiences, especially those we encounter as viewers to otherworldly dimensions.”

-Irby Pace

Irby Pace, Comet , 2017, archival inkjet print, 55'' x 36'', Roanoke College Permanent Collection, Gift of Joanne Leonhardt Cassullo and the Dorothea L. Leonhardt Foundation, Inc

Irby Pace, Comet, 2017, archival inkjet print, 55'' x 36'', Roanoke College Permanent Collection, Gift of Joanne Leonhardt Cassullo and the Dorothea L. Leonhardt Foundation, Inc

Irby Pace, Brownfield , 2017, archival inkjet print, 36'' x 55'', Roanoke College Permanent Collection, Gift of Joanne Leonhardt Cassullo and the Dorothea L. Leonhardt Foundation, Inc

Irby Pace, Brownfield, 2017, archival inkjet print, 36'' x 55'', Roanoke College Permanent Collection, Gift of Joanne Leonhardt Cassullo and the Dorothea L. Leonhardt Foundation, Inc

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Irby Pace: Into Darkness, Galleri Urbane Online Exhibition, 2020
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