Welcome to Pamella Allen Fine Arts
“What The Trees Gave Me” Onsite Earthwork Installation at Ma’s House & BIPOC Art Studio
25’ D- Conch, Lightening Elk, Jingle, and Quahog shells, Quartz Stone, Reeds, Moss, fallen tree branches and leaves, on soil Pamella Allen 2021
I create my on-site earthworks with elements that I find in those landscapes so each earthwork is an honoring of the natural world and a self portrait of that landscape, a kind of storytelling - a visual history told with the bones and discarded homes of sentient beings.
25’ D- Conch, Lightening Elk, Jingle, and Quahog shells, Quartz Stone, Reeds, Moss, fallen tree branches and leaves, on soil Pamella Allen 2021
I create my on-site earthworks with elements that I find in those landscapes so each earthwork is an honoring of the natural world and a self portrait of that landscape, a kind of storytelling - a visual history told with the bones and discarded homes of sentient beings.
"Night Sun" I created this series of video paintings by filming my installation of "Paper Shells" with movement, light and natural sound elements; then adding another layer of video editing to create this image for large-format immersive projection as a part of a larger mixed media installation in progress.
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Currently Showing in "The Art Of Our Culture", at Blackbird Gallery in the Fisher Building, Detroit MI
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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 mystic of the natural world that speak to the diversity of her Jamaican/African heritage, relationship with death and lived experiences as a woman, a world traveler and sailor and an immigrant living in the USA.
“My works create a space to find connection, place & peace, informed by memory, culture, ritual and kinship with our natural landscapes.”
Series: Mixed media Paintings: Portraits of Souls-Mandalas/Circles & Symbols- Handmade Paperworks created with recycled elements- Journalistic Art Books- Mixed Media Collage works- Installation/Video- Prose
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 mystic of the natural world that speak to the diversity of her Jamaican/African heritage, relationship with death and lived experiences as a woman, a world traveler and sailor and an immigrant living in the USA.
“My works create a space to find connection, place & peace, informed by memory, culture, ritual and kinship with our natural landscapes.”
Series: Mixed media Paintings: Portraits of Souls-Mandalas/Circles & Symbols- Handmade Paperworks created with recycled elements- Journalistic Art Books- Mixed Media Collage works- Installation/Video- Prose
"Dreaming The Leaf" Wallpaper Pamella Allen 2021
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