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        Pamela Marks (Connecticut) (see images below) Pamela Marks received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting and Drawing at the University of Illinois. She went on to receive her Master of Fine Arts in Painting from the University of Arizona. She teaches at the Pont-Aven School of Art in Brittany, France and Connecticut College. She is the current Gallery Director at the Cumming Arts Center in New London. Her work has been exhibited in the Tucson Museum of Art as well as galleries in Los Angeles, New York, Boston, Chicago, Paris, Tokyo, the Netherlands, and Greece. Marks’ Dazzle Paintings reference the dazzle ships of WWI and WWII that were painted in wild, abstract patterns intended to disrupt the volume of the vessel and confuse the enemy. Also featured in the gallery are Marks’ DPM (Disruptive Pattern Material) Series. Marks arrived at these works through her previous Magnetic Field Series acrylic paintings where cellular forms multiply, recombine, stretch, and mutate in an atmosphere of flux generated by repellent forces. The resulting amoeba-like patterns are very closely related visually to camouflage, an abstraction of nature and a powerful symbol. The Dazzle and DPM watercolor paintings leave behind the deep space and volume of the Magnetic Field Paintings for patterns that disrupt and dissolve edges of strong geometries with subtle layers that connect and disconnect shapes. The world of these most recent paintings is still very much in flux but now more so in lateral shifts and flickering color. Marks latest watercolors are enticing studies of abstraction where current themes and universal paradigms serve as the structure in which to explore opposing forces of artistic expression such as depth and flatness, transparency and obfuscation, minimalism and complexity, and vividness and de-saturation. Ironically, eo’s Nature’s Veil exhibition “reveals” Marks’ astute use of watercolor and her brave use of color to “highlight” nature’s wondrous forms and patterns. |
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