Pam Douglas, SIGHT, Opening Reception at TAG September 30th

Sep 14, 2017

In A Dark Time, detail

Pam Douglas SIGHT

On view September 26th to October 21st Reception September 30th 5-8pm Artist Talk October 7th

TAG 5458 Wilshire Blvd Los Angeles, CA 90036 https://www.taggallery.net/ http://pamdouglasart.com/

Please join us for artist Pam Douglas’s solo show “Sight” opening at TAG, September 26th with a reception on September 30th from 5-8pm and an artist talk on October 7th.

In SIGHT, a solo exhibition of new work by Pam Douglas, she uses transparencies and reflections to reveal multi-layered perspectives of our times.

SIGHT evokes the courage to see what is happening. Douglas has enjoyed the metaphysical realms of vision in past works, and with this exhibition she continues her interest in the circle as an embrace of “oneness.” Amidst current national challenges, she felt these times call for boldness. That led her to images of women crying out in darkness, oil derricks spewing oil, the unflinching gaze of a woman inside a round sawblade, and the line from Thoreau beneath another work: “The question is not what you look at but what you see.”

Art critic Shana Nys Dambrot wrote: “Pam Douglas is steeped in the magical way assemblage creates meaning. But she also excels at using paint, light, and line to create thematic compositional elements of powerful abstract narratives. Motifs of landscape, stylized abstraction and portraiture, and elemental forces of earth, water, and air are depicted and embodied using plexiglass, rope, machine parts, and newsprint, as well as rich colors and mirrored surfaces. The works in SIGHT share material interests with her previous bodies of work, but for this series she has chosen those elements with increased specificity because their message has intensified as a response to society’s troubles. SIGHT evokes ideas about perspective and perception, truth and spectacle, evidence and witness, and includes both physical and metaphysical sensory experiences.”

Pam Douglas Received her BA in Art from Vassar and her MFA from Columbia. She took classes at the Art Students League in NY and Cornell University. Recently she has exhibited at the California African American Museum, LA Artcore, Tag Gallery, Arena 1, Tarfest, I-5 Gallery and Studio C. Currently she is professor at USC’s School of Cinematic Arts.