"Self Study X"-"A Shadow Of My Former Self" Pamella Allen 2010
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About the Artist Pamella Allen is a Jamaica born, Brooklyn based artist who uses artifacts from her own life experiences pulled out of the chaos of memory and observation. A creative journey that began in 1984, Pamellas' work is layered in process. Mixed media paintings, printmaking, sculpture, paper making, Installation, photography/video essay & prose combine to create her own archetype, a universal language of images found and remembered that speaks to the diversity of her Jamaican/African heritage and lived experiences traveling the world over land and sea. Pamellas' works have been exhibited locally and internationally in traditional and "non-traditional" settings, in site specific corporate commissions for healing & learning spaces, community centers and private collections across the globe. "Born hard-wired to observe, reflect & respond to the visceral images and sounds that perception gives. I breath, I paint, I live. In an attempt to replicate what I observed of this world and find place in it. My images are born out of the chaos of memory, by discerning and replicating form in the spaces between the violent silences. It is here, through arts practice that I investigate self through memory, moment and the mystic of nature." Pamella Allen |
Selected Resume
Selected Group Exhibition
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
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