Pace Prints acquires Brand X Editions in New York
Pace Prints in New York has acquired fellow print publisher Brand X Editions on Long Island, New York. The deal was reported on 17 September 2026. It brings together two workshops that make original prints with artists for collectors Artnet News.
Pace Prints, which operates under the corporate name Pace Editions, Inc., was founded in 1968 by Richard Solomon alongside Arne Glimcher of Pace Gallery in New York. Its workshop was established by master printer Aldo Crommelynck. Brand X Editions was founded in 1979 by Robert Blanton as a silkscreen studio, a workshop where images are printed by pushing ink through a mesh screen.
The combined organisation will be overseen by Jacob Lewis, president and chief executive of Pace Prints. Lewis started at Pace as a printshop intern in 2001 and was appointed president in 2019. He joined with partners to acquire Pace Prints itself in May 2025, as reported by Observer.
Both workshops will keep operating after the acquisition. The shops stay open. Brand X's facilities on Long Island will add to Pace Prints' base in Manhattan in New York, and the two companies had already collaborated for a decade before the deal.
Pace Prints is also preparing to open a gallery and workshop in Los Angeles in autumn 2026. The company lists the new space at 1130 Seward Street as 11,700 square feet Pace Prints. That gives the New York business a West Coast base for making and showing prints.
The two businesses have a public history together. Pace Prints staged a group exhibition titled 'Brand X: 40 Years' of prints printed by Brand X, which ran from 8 November to 20 December 2019 at its 521W26 space in New York. In 2024, the Brand X Archive was established at the Philadelphia Museum of Art in Philadelphia to hold more than 400 prints created by the publisher, the company that commissions and pays for print editions.
For fans, this means more of the hands-on craft stays under one roof. Prints are original artworks made in small numbered groups, not posters. That makes them one of the more direct ways to collect work made with artists in the room.
