"Self Study X"-"A Shadow Of My Former Self" Pamella Allen 2010

​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”.    

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Selected Resume
2022       Art For NYC- Selected Artists Works
2022       Mass Comm Art Gallery, Medgar Evers Collage-Journey to the Center
2021       Calabar Gallery Ny- Walking to a Different Beat
2021       Calabar Gallery Ny- 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      Arts Westchester 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
2014      Tabla Rasa Gallery Ny- Obsession
2014      Bric House Gallery Ny- Expanded Practice
2012      Rush Arts Gallery Ny- Bombay Sapphire Series
2011      SVA Gallery Ny- UNCF The Art Of Giving Back
2011      Jr’s Inside Out Project- Street Art Installation
Publication:
2022      The NY Times-“Ma’s House: An Artist Fulfills His Dying Grandmothers’ Dying    Wish” by Julie Lasky
2022      The Art Whale Series: In Conversation with Grishma Khodaria
2021       Voices of Art: Dr. Myrah Brown Green-Interviews with Master Artists
2021      Pigment International: How Mystecism Storytelling & Prose Shape the practice of Pamella Allen by Patricia Andrews Keenan
2021      Garden Spices Magazine- Art Ethereal
2019     Brooklyn on My Mind: Black Artists from the WPA to the Present by Dr. Myrah Brown Green
2018      The Language of Listening, A book of Image and Prose by Pamella AllenSelected Artist Residency/Awards
2021       Artist-In -Residence, Ma’s House & BIPOC Art Studio2021       4th Annual “African Honoree Authors Award”, Johannesburg
​1991       MOMA Summer Internship, Ny     
1998      Artist -In -Residence: LaBase, Levallios, France
2007     Artist-In-Residence: Utsav Mandir Foundation, India
Selected Corporate & Private Collection
2021      Mrs. Ellen Cantrowitz2019     HHC Art-In-Medicine Program~ Mural -Bellevue CPEP Ny
2016     Health Essential Association~ Mural Happy House
2010     HHC Art-In-Medicine Program~ Cumberland Diagnostic
2009    The Ventana Group Paris Fr
2010     Mrs. William Cosby Jr. Ny