Pamela Flynn

STATEMENT

After
always trying to understand

After is a collection of new works that explore what is left behind after. We live in a world where the after is the state that so many are faced with. In this work I am acknowledging the after: the destruction, the emptiness, the loss. I am using the tree as a metaphor for life/death.

The When Only The Charred Are Left works include small lifeless trees that represent what is left behind after. These small trees are tediously cloaked with beads as a way to cover up death. The group of works on paper are further depictions of what remains after. 

The Shadow Study paintings are contemplations on the spaces that are left after living ends. I am exploring the notion that one’s understanding of death is the empty space left.

I am a mixed media artist. My work is founded in social/cultural issues. I hold an MFA from New Jersey City University and I am a Professor of Art and Fine Arts Coordinator at Holy Family University, Philadelphia.

My work has been exhibited nationwide and in South Korea. I am a recipient of the 2006 Puffin Foundation Grant for the project Road Shrines: A Peripheral Blur. My anti gun violence project Considering Harm has been exhibited in many cities in the United States.

I give no answers in my work. I share the act of the contemplation of life.

Pamela Flynn
412 Wildwood Place, Lake Como, NJ 07719
Phone: 908-596-9469
Email: dmfbeach@aol.com