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Pamella Allen is a Jamaican born, Brooklyn based visual artist in practice for over 30 years whose works have been exhibited in traditional gallery and non-traditional settings, in site specific public art corporate commissions for healing spaces such as Bellevue Hospital for the HHC Art-In-Medicine program, community centers and private collections across the globe.
A largely self-taught expressionist artist, Pamella's work is layered in process. Utilizing traditional acrylic, oil and encaustic painting, printmaking, sculpture, paper making, collage, Installation, photography/video essay & prose to develop her own archetype, a universal language of images inspired by symbolism, indigenous practices and the mystic of the natural world that speak to the diversity of her Jamaican/African heritage, relationship with death and lived experiences as a woman, a world traveler and sailor and an immigrant living in the USA.
“My works create a space to find connection, place & peace, informed by memory, culture, ritual and kinship with our natural landscapes.”
Series: Mixed media Paintings: Portraits of Souls-Mandalas/Circles & Symbols- Handmade Paperworks created with recycled elements- Journalistic Art Books- Mixed Media Collage works- Installation/Video- Prose
A largely self-taught expressionist artist, Pamella's work is layered in process. Utilizing traditional acrylic, oil and encaustic painting, printmaking, sculpture, paper making, collage, Installation, photography/video essay & prose to develop her own archetype, a universal language of images inspired by symbolism, indigenous practices and the mystic of the natural world that speak to the diversity of her Jamaican/African heritage, relationship with death and lived experiences as a woman, a world traveler and sailor and an immigrant living in the USA.
“My works create a space to find connection, place & peace, informed by memory, culture, ritual and kinship with our natural landscapes.”
Series: Mixed media Paintings: Portraits of Souls-Mandalas/Circles & Symbols- Handmade Paperworks created with recycled elements- Journalistic Art Books- Mixed Media Collage works- Installation/Video- Prose