"Self Study X"-"A Shadow Of My Former Self" Pamella Allen 2010
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About the Artist: Pamella Allen is a Jamaican born, Brooklyn based visual artist in practice for over 30 years whose works have been exhibited in traditional gallery and non-traditional settings, in site specific public art corporate commissions for healing spaces such as Bellevue Hospital for the HHC Art-In-Medicine program, community centers and private collections across the globe. A largely self-taught expressionist artist, Pamella's work is layered in process. Utilizing traditional acrylic, oil and encaustic painting, printmaking, sculpture, paper making, collage, Installation, photography/video essay & prose to develop her own archetype, a universal language of images inspired by symbolism, indigenous practices and the natural world that speak to the diversity of her Jamaican/African heritage and lived experiences as a woman, an immigrant living in the USA, and a world traveler and sailor. “I investigate self through memory, moment and the mystic of nature." Following “a calling to make art with the youth” while living in Africa and then while in residency in India; In addition to her continued studio practice, for the past 12 years Pamella has been in practice as a teaching artist sharing her creative process with community in school settings, senior centers, museums, and healing spaces throughout New York with organizations creating site specific public arts mural, mixed media installations, and anthologies for publication. “The benefit to bringing arts practice into collaboration with the community cannot be overstated, it is priceless watching individuals blossom in the wonder of their own creativity and come together to celebrate their unity and diversity by using their creative voice”. |
Selected Resume
Selected Group Exhibition
2021 Recipient of the African Authors Award for "The Language of Listening"
Image & Prose By Pamella Allen
2021 Calabar Gallery NY Walking to a Different Beat
2021 Calabar Gallery NY Black Artists In Their Own Realm
2019 Weeksville Heritage Center NY - In Her Own Words
2019 NLE Curatorial Lab @ Kings County Hospital NY - (after)care
2018 GMK Gallery NY - The Synergy of Singular Voices
2018 Kimmel Galleries NYU - Unnatural Election
2016 ArtsWestchester NY - REMEDY, An Exhibition
2016 Leroy Nieman Art Center NY - Her Story: Vision, Voice, Memory
2015 Clover Fine Art Gallery NY - Small Works
2015 BRIC House Gallery NY- OPEN (C)ALL
2015 East Brook Studios NY- Paper Works
2014 Tabla Rasa Gallery NY- OBSESSION
2014 BRIC House Gallery NY- Expanded Practice
2014 Skylight Gallery NY- I Can Do Dat
2012 Rush Arts Gallery NY- Bombay Sapphire Series
2012 Lenz Winery Gallery NY – Art In The Vines
2011 SVA Gallery NY- UNCF The Art of Giving Back
2011 Parlor Gallery NY – Works on Paper
2011 JR’s Inside Out Project- Street Art Installation- New Sudanese Communities NY
2010 Corridor Gallery NY - Black Artist as Activist
2008 Gallery D3 Brooklyn, NY - Represent Brooklyn
2008 Soho D&H Gallery, NYC - Dreams in Color
2008 HHC Corporate Art collection, NYC - New York and Beyond
2008 1110 Gallery, Brooklyn NY - Art 4 DArfur
2007 Lana Santorelli Gallery, NYC - Small works Show
2007 Skylight Gallery, Brooklyn NY- Caribbean Colors
2007 Farrago Gallery, New Delhi India - East Meets West
2007 Art Junction Gallery, New Delhi India - Artist of Utsav MAndir
2006 HHC Corporate Art Collection, NYC - Emergence
2006 Corridor Gallery Brooklyn NY - Emerging artists
2004 Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn NY - SONYA Artist Works
2004 J&M Davidson Gallery, London UK - Three Artists
1997 Elsa Mott Ives Gallery NY - Image and Verse
1992 Gallery La Base France - Artists of La Base
Selected Solo Exhibition
2010 Art at the Empire- Mandalas & Abstractions
2003 Livingston Avenue Gallery NJ - But the Journey
2001 Regalame Gallery Costa Rica - Seeking Sibo
2001 Mott Mott Gallery Costa Rica - Protecting Sibo’s Gifts
2001 El Avion Gallery Costa Rica - Sibo’s Gifts
1996 Rainy Day Gallery NY - My Hieroglyphic
Selected Artist Residency
2021 Ma's House & BIPOC Art Studio NY
1991 MOMA Summer Internship, NY
1998 Labase, Levallios, France
2007 Utsav mandir Foundation, India
Selected Private / Corporate Collection
2019- HHC Art-In-Medicine Program~ Ceiling mural installation for Bellevue CPEP NY
2016- Health Essentail Association~ Mural installation for Happy House Community Center NY
2010- HHC Art-In-Medicine Program~ Cumberland Diagnostic Clinic Brooklyn NY
Manuel Costado Interior Design NY
Hotel Broadway American NY
The Ventana Group Paris FR
Mrs. William Cosby Jr. NY
Mr. J. De’Caversdoue France