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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 Connecticut College and the Pont-Aven School of Contemporary Art in Brittany, France. Her work has been exhibited in Los Angeles, New York, Boston, Chicago, as well as France, Scotland, Japan, the Dominican Republic and the Netherlands. Marks’ Video Composite Painting Series explores the increasingly hybridized world of nature and technology. To create the work, Marks has digitally captured different hand wrought watercolors from her previous Camouflage Series and combined them through video transitions. The resulting still frames are hybrids that are then translated by hand into larger scale acrylic paintings, a process that reflects the perpetual back and forth between the simulated environments of television and computers and the physical reality of everyday living. In this, her latest work, color and contrast are found in abundance. However, no single color dominates over another and even the many areas of extreme contrast are beautifully balanced with multiple areas of subtle, quiet distinctions. Marks brilliantly manipulates light and color to produce a kinetic perceptual experience where one’s eyes dart from spot to spot where holes of light appear to open and widen. What one witnesses are clear, sharp delineations between colors and shades, yet the overall experience is that of a blur, but not a blur in the sense of blending, but rather in the sense of dissolving, where the resultant fabric is rendered a spotted purveyor of pure light. This sense of subtraction is deeply intriguing as it stands in stark contrast with the process, which is utterly additive. Marks is clearly developing a unique language that serves to translate the complex abstract nature of the “in between”. Her work captures both the intensities and subtleties of interaction and transition. It portrays the continuum of cacophonic layered input and yet hints at a movement toward order and structure. |
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