Pam Evelyn, A Handful of Dust at Pace Gallery
Pam Evelyn, a London-based artist, is renowned for her captivating abstract paintings. Her works, teeming with intricate layers and textured depth, serve as contemplative reflections on nature, the human form, and materiality. Evelyn's artistic process is driven by intuition, transforming her life experiences into vibrant, multifaceted compositions on canvas. Her masterful use of oil paints, meticulously applied, scraped, and reworked over an extended period, evokes the raw energy found in Abstract Expressionism, yet maintains a contemporary and unique flair.
Evelyn's latest exhibition at Pace's London gallery spans two floors and showcases a series of painstakingly crafted paintings created over several months. Her artistic process involves a constant interplay between creation and deconstruction, freedom and control. The paintings, rich in texture and depth, almost seem alive as layers of oil paint obscure and reveal over time. Evelyn views her works as quasi-sentient entities, letting them shape their own direction.
Evelyn holds a BFA from the Slade School of Fine Art (2019) and an MA in Painting from the Royal College of Art (2022). She has earned recognition such as the Cass Art Prize in 2019 and a prestigious residency at Porthmeor Studios in 2022. Her art can be found in public collections like Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo in Turin, Italy, and the Zabludowicz Collection in London. Recent exhibitions include The Reason for Painting at the Mead Gallery in Warwick (2023) and New British Abstraction at the Centre for International Contemporary Art in Vancouver (2023). In 2023, she was commissioned by the Whitechapel Gallery in London for two etchings as part of the exhibition Action, Gesture, Paint: Women Artists and Global Abstraction 1940-1970 (2023)
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