Mid-life, acrylic paint on paper, 28 x 72 inches

Biography
​Pamela was born in Boston and raised on a farm in Rockland, Massachusetts where she was the youngest of ten children. She received a BFA from Southeastern Massachusetts University in 1972 and an MFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts/Tufts University in 1984. She taught drawing in the Fine Arts Department at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth for thirty years and retired in 2018.

During graduate school Pamela received a travel award to Italy where she was moved by Giotto’s murals at the Scrovegni Chapel in Padua. While attending the Museum School she traveled to the Prado Museum in Madrid with Eleanor Sayre, (MFA Curator of Prints and Drawings), where she had access to hundreds of Goya’s drawings in the Prado Library. Pamela received a National Endowment for the Arts, Regional Visual Artist’s Fellowship in 1994 for works on paper. She has several pieces in the Drawing Collection at the Boston Public Library.

​Pamela has exhibited nationally and regionally in university galleries, commercial galleries and museums. Selected exhibitions include the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Boston Center for the Arts (Cyclorama), the Art Complex Museum in Duxbury, Concord Center for the Visual Arts, the Fitchburg Museum, the Danforth Museum in Framingham, the Fuller Museum in Brockton, the Attleboro Museum and the New Bedford Art Museum. 

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Artist Statement
I often use myself as a vehicle for expression. Some of my portraits are intimate investigations, while others, using full body postures, are theatrical large scale narratives. Both elucidate my life as a woman in the roles I have played in life as a daughter, mother, artist, teacher and wife. Self-portraiture has allowed me to uncover what could not easily be perceived. Documenting the past with the present, I look at myself through the lens of time, with a conscious awareness of age, gender and loss. Since 1984 I have maintained studios in large warehouse spaces. I moved my studio in 2021 into my New Bedford home where I have been painting portraits, self portraits and flowers from the gardens I grow.