Balance Study #3, oil on canvas, seed beads, 12x12”, 2017
Balance Study #16, oil on canvas, seed beads, 12x12”, 2018
Night Cover, oil on canvas/seed beads, 24x24”, 2012
With Liberty and Justice for All, oil on canvas/seed beads, 24x36”, 2010
Balance Study #20, oil on canvas, seed beads, 12x12”, 2018
Balance Study #24, oil on canvas, seed beads, 12x12”, 2018
Balance Study #12, oil on canvas, seed beads, 12x12”, 2018
Balance Study #10, oil on canvas, seed beads, 12x12”, 2018
Balance Study #9, oil on canvas, seed beads, 12x12”, 2017
Balance Study #4, oil on canvas, seed beads, 12x12”, 2017
STATEMENT
Balance
Life is a balance. Relationships are about a balance of power. Our relationship to earth is a balance between using and preserving, our personal health (physical and mental) is a balance between too much and too little. How we interact with people outside our national borders is a balance between inclusion and exclusion.
I am using rocks as a metaphor for elements that are in a relationship with each other. If one rock is removed the balance is destroyed- the rocks fall. I am using stone walls as a metaphor for exclusion and inclusion. Walls, whether visible or invisible, are barriers. My stone walls are not mortared. They are structures of balance. Remove one rock and envision the collapse.
I ask myself and I ask the viewer -where am I / where are you in this balance-a disrupter or a person who maintains? I ask myself and I ask the viewer where am I/where are you positioned in relation to the wall – are you included or are you excluded? Do you build walls to keep in or to keep out? Are you an includer or are you an excluder? This body of work is not answering any questions-the only absolute presented is balance.
Pamela Flynn
412 Wildwood Place, Lake Como, NJ 07719
Phone:732-749-3577
Email: dmfbeach@aol.com
Education:
| MFA Painting and Drawing, New Jersey City University, NJ 1996 | |
| MA Fine Arts Education, Kean College, Union, NJ 1995 | |
| MA Fine Arts Education, Kean College, Union, NJ 1995 |
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
| Professor of Art/Coordinator of Fine Arts, Holy Family University, Philadelphia 1999-present |
SELECTED PRESENTATIONS and PUBLICATIONS:
| Presentation: Considering Harm: The Exhibit, 10/13 Holy Family University, PA | |
| Selected Participant- College Art Association, 2/07, NYC. | |
| Paper: Going Beyond the Studio Walls/A Liberal Arts Partnership | |
| Selected Participant- International Symposium on the Arts and Society 2/07, NYC | |
| Paper: The Making of an Artist: Building On Past Practices While Looking to the Future. Published in: The International Journal of the Arts in Society | |
| Selected Participant- Holy Family University Scholarship Conference 2010 | |
| Paper: Uncovering the Process | |
| Work Included In: Best of America: Mixed Media, Kennedy Publishing, 2007 |
GRANTS:
| 2006 | Puffin Foundation Grant -Project: Road Shrines: A Peripheral Blur |
ARTIST HAND MADE BOOKS:
| Three Green Rocks, Distributed- Printed Matter, NY, NY | |
| duel duty, T 3, Distributed Printed Matter, NY, NY |
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:
| 2018 | Floral Entities, Up Stairs Gallery, Ridgefield Guild of Artists, CTr |
| 2018 | Shelter, Group Exhibit, Da Vinci Art Alliance / Philadelphia Sculptors, Philadelphia, PA |
| 2018 | Lazy Susan Gallery, NYC group exhibit NYC Phoenix Art Collective |
| 2018 | One person exhibit Basil Yoga Gallery, Ridgefield, CT |
| 2018 | Dirty Little TRUMP Show, IMPeRFeCT Gallery, Philadelphia, PA |
| 2017 | Out of Context, one person exhibit, Arts Center East, Vernon, CT |
| 2017 | Considering Harm, one person exhibit, Hudson Pride, Jersey City, NJ |
| 2017 | Gritty in Pink, Bailey Contemporary Art, Pompano Beach, FL |
| 2017 | Bud Studies, one person exhibit, Tiny Gallery, Creative Arts Workshop, New Haven, CT |
| 2016 | Considering Harm, one person exhibit , ArtWorks Trenton, NJ |
| 2016 | Considering Harm, one person exhibit , Kelli Copeland Lofts, Orange, NJ |
| 2016 | Impending After, Phoenix Gallery, NYC |
| 2015 | Considering Harm, one person exhibit , Convergence Gallery, Alexandria, VA |
| 2015 | Voices: An Artist’s Perspective, online gallery |
| 2014 | Forget-Me-Not, one person exhibit, Phoenix Gallery, NYCr |
| 2014 | Best of 2014 WCA National, ARC Gallery, Chicago |
| 2014 | Visual AIDS Postcards From the Edge, NYC |
| 2013 | Considering Harm/Maryland, one person exhibit , The Delaplaine Visual Arts, MD |
| 2013 | Small Shrines, Sweetwater Center for the Arts, Sewickley, PA |
| 2013 | Violence, SPP Galleries, Conshohocken, PA |
| 2013 | Invitational, Monmouth University, NJ |
| 2013 | Considering Harm, one person exhibit , A Seed on Diamond Gallery, Philadelphia |
| 2013 | Demarcation, one person exhibit, Jed Williams Studio, Philadelphia |
| 2012 | “There’s No Racism in America”, The Imperfect Gallery, Philadelphia |
| 2012 | Woman + Body Exhibition, Kepco Plaza Gallery Museum in Seoul, South Korea, Gwangju Cultural Foundation’s MediaCube Gwangju, South Korea |
| 2012 | Considering Harm, one person exhibit, Phoenix Gallery, NYC |
| 2012 | Gender Issues, International House, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia |
| 2012 | Making HerStory, Center for Green Urbanism, Washington DC |
| 2012 | In Liquid Benefit V.12, Philadelphia, PA |
| 2011 | Stretching the Medium, Arizona State University School of Art |
| 2011 | Impact, Swing Space Gallery, Ohio State University |
| 2011 | Women and Water, International House, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia |
| 2011 | Demarcation, one person exhibit , Phoenix Gallery, NYC |
| 2011 | Visual AIDS Postcards From the Edge, James Cohan Gallery, NYC |
| 2010 | SEPCHE Group Faculty Exhibition, Chestnut Hill College, PA |
| 2010 | Road Shrines: A Peripheral Blur, one person exhibit, East Gallery, William Paterson University, NJ |
| 2010 | Wall to Wall, City Without Walls, Newark, NJ |
| 2010 | The Lens Based Image, Desotorow Gallery, Savannah, GA |
| 2010 | Quintet, Phoenix Gallery, NYC |
| 2010 | Women, International House, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia |
| 2010 | Wish You Were Here, AIR Gallery, NYC |
| 2010 | Visual AIDS Postcards From the Edge, James Cohan Gallery, NYC |
| 2009 | Four Cultural Stories, Pierro Gallery of South Orange, NJ |
| 2009 | SEPCHE Group Exhibition, Rosemont University, PA |
| 2009 | Projection Show, Artist Unite, NYC |
| 2009 | Wish You Were Here, AIR Gallery, NYC |
| 2009 | Road Shrines: A Peripheral Blur, one person exhibit, Phoenix Gallery, NYC |
| 2009 | A.C.E., Program for the Homeless Auction, NYC |
| 2009 | Ponderings, one person exhibition, Plastic Club, Philadelphia |
| 2009 | Freedom, Eastern Kentucky University, Richmond, KY (best 2-d in show award) |
| 2009 | Visual AIDS Postcards From the Edge, James Cohan Gallery, NYC |
| 2009 | Invitational Small Works, New Arts Program, Kutztown, PA |
| 2008 | Think Tank, Eagle Art Gallery, Murray State University, KY |
| 2008 | Road Shrines: A Peripheral Blur, one person exhibit, Brookdale Community College, Lincroft, NJ |
| 2008 | Artists Unite Live, Our Savior’s Atonement’s Cornerstone Center, NYC |
| 2008 | Environmental Distress, Louis Redding City Building, Wilmington, DE |
| 2008 | Space Place Life, Eastern Kentucky University, Richmond, KY |
| 2008 | Generations VI, Invitational, A.I.R.Gallery, NYC |
| 2008 | Making Marks, Brookdale Community College, NJ |
| 2008 | Invitational Small Works, New Arts Program, Kutztown, PA |
| 2007 | Visual AIDS Postcards From the Edge, James Cohan Gallery, NYC |
| 2007 | Ponderings, one person exhibition, Monmouth University, NJ |
| 2007 | Ponderings, one person exhibition, Phoenix Gallery, NYC |
| 2007 | Invitational Small Works, New Arts Program, Kutztown, PA |
| 2006 | Continuing contributor to Artist Unite/Now Hear This, Artist Unite Gallery |
| 2006 | Dada Domestique, Cazenovia College, NY |
| 2006 | Generations 5, AIR Gallery |
| 2006 | The Space In Between, Bruce Gallery, one person exhibition, Endinboro University, PA |
| 2008 | Invitational Small Works, New Arts Program, Kutztown, PA |
| 2005 | My America, Gallery 125, Trenton, NJ |
| 2005 | Making History: Then and Now, WCA Members, Highwire Gallery, Philadelphia |
| 2005 | Self-Portraits: Inside and Out, Ayer Lofts Gallery, Lowell, MA |
| 2005 | Testifyin’ 2005, Rosenthal Gallery, Fayetteville State U, NC |
| 2005 | Invitational Small Works, New Arts Program, Kutztown, PA |
| 2004 | The Space In Between, one person exhibition, Phoenix Gallery, NYC |
| 2004 | Multeity, WCA Group Exhibit , Zonk Gallery, Philadelphia, PA |
| 2004 | Salon de Expace #2, About Glamour, Brooklyn, NY |
| 2004 | Dream WCA Group Exhibit, B Square Gallery, Philadelphia. PA |
| 2004 | Invitational Small Works, New Arts Program, Kutztown, PA |
| 2004 | Masquerade, Mills Pond House Gallery, St. James, NY |
| 2003 | Douglas Dibble Memorial Art Auction, Hunter College, NY, NY |
| 2003 | Backroads and Boulevards International, The Printmaking Council of NJ, touring |
| 2003 | Documenting Women’s Lives, WCA-DC, touring exhibition |
| 2003 | TechArt, South Shore Art Center, MA |
| 2003 | The Photographic Process V International, Period Gallery, Periodgallery.com |
| 2003 | Spring Forward, Fall Back, Gallery Mia Tyson, Wilmington, NC |
| 2003 | 5”x5”x5”, Ladyfest, Philadelphia, PA |
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS:
| Ceres Gallery, NYC | |
| NYC Phoenix Art Collective | |
| Philadelphia Chapter –Women’s Caucus For Art | |
| College Art Association | |
| International Sculpture Center |