Artist Spotlight: Pam Douglas -- SIGHT

Pam Douglas, One, Acrylic, rope, silk, wood, 36 x 48"

In SIGHT, an exhibition of new work by Pam Douglas, she uses transparencies and reflections to reveal multi-layered perspectives of our times. SIGHT evokes the courage to see what is happening.

Pam Douglas, Witness, Mirror, ink, sawblade on plexi, 14 x 32"

Douglas has enjoyed the metaphysical realms of vision in past works, and with this exhibition she continues her interest in the circle as an embrace of “oneness.” Amidst current national challenges, she felt these times call for boldness. That led her to images of women crying out in darkness, oil derricks spewing oil, the unflinching gaze of a woman inside a round saw blade, and the line from Thoreau beneath another work: “The question is not what you look at, but what you see.”

Pam Douglas, The Question Is Not What You Look At But What You See,
Ink, acrylic, silk, paper, mirror on plexi, 38 x 34"

Art critic Shana Nys Dambrot wrote: “Pam Douglas is steeped in the magical way assemblage creates meaning. But she also excels at using paint, light, and line to create thematic compositional elements of powerful abstract narratives. Motifs of landscape, stylized abstraction and portraiture, and elemental forces of earth, water, and air are depicted and embodied using Plexiglas, rope, machine parts, and newsprint, as well as rich colors and mirrored surfaces. The works in SIGHT share material interests with her previous bodies of work, but for this series she has chosen those elements with increased specificity because their message has intensified as a response to society’s troubles. SIGHT evokes ideas about perspective and perception, truth and spectacle, evidence and witness, and includes both physical and metaphysical sensory experiences.”

Pam Douglas, In a Dark Time the Mind Begins To See, Ink, acrylic, mirror on plexi, 14 x 47"

Opening Reception: Saturday, September 30, 6 – 9pm
Artist Panel Discussion: Saturday, October 7, 3pm

Current Exhibition: Pam Douglas, Joe Pinkelman, Marion Wood

Tuesday, September 26 – Saturday, October 21, 2017

Opening Reception: Saturday, September 30, 6 – 9pm
Artist Panel Discussion: Saturday, October 7, 3pm

Pam Douglas – SIGHT

Pam Douglas, Forecast From the Deep, Ink, string, acrylic on plexiglas, 55 x 43”

Joe Pinkelman – More China

Joe Pinkelman, Cloud #1, Porcelain, 26 x 19 x 19”

Marion Wood – Gravity

Marion Wood, Off the Grid, Acrylic on canvas, 72 x 60"

Artist Spotlight: Elyse Wyman's Positive From Negative

Elyse Wyman, Kick, Cast Aluminum, 41 x 32 x .5"

In art as in life, a slight shift in perspective can transform negative into positive. While creating the positive shapes for the sculptures in her previous show, Elyse Wyman noticed the remaining negative shapes were intriguing in their own right and reserved them for future inspiration. In the spirit of recycle, reuse, renew, those raw pieces evolved into new sculptures, retaining some of the shapes and characteristics from the previous artwork, but emerging as something distinctly novel in her new show, Positive from Negative.

Elyse Wyman, Evolutionary Venture - 2S Recycle, Cast Aluminum, 9 x 8 x 5.5"

Wyman utilized the negative shapes born from earlier sculptures of the female torso to create positive sculptural forms cut and carved from Styrofoam. She then buried them in sand and cast them in aluminum. As she dug the sculptures from the hot sand, she noticed that an unforeseen surface pattern had spontaneously emerged from the path of the molten metal. 

Elyse Wyman, Winged Defeat, Cast Aluminum, 9 x 6 x 5"

Intrigued with the reticulated patterning, she ventured further, making pencil and wax rubbings on paper and employing gold leaf to further reveal and enhance the shapes and patterns. With this exhibition, the negative has transformed into positive.

Elyse Wyman, Undulation, Gold leaf on paper, 45.5 x 35"

August 29 – September 23, 2017

Artist Panel Discussion:
Saturday, September 23, 3pm