My newest series of waterscapes are done by painting with my hands. A tactile experience. Wearing surgical gloves, I apply the oil paint very quickly and create a spontaneous work by following the emerging forms. Viewers say they can hear the water. Except for the tiny stones in the foreground, which I used a small…
Pamela’s live painting during the Arts in Ada festival is featured on WZZM13 and mLive. The 18 x 24 inch watercolor painting created in front of a live audience is now part of the permanent Ada Township art collection. Photo credit: WZZM13 See feature on WZZM13… See feature on mLive… Photo credit: Arts in Ada…
This work was painted with my hands. I wore surgical gloves for the art making process. Waterscape, Pamela Alderman, Oil on canvas, 40 x 16 inches, 2016
Healing in Arts successfully creates community with a new healing paradigm for art making in a world where rapid cultural fragmentation alienates us. A superficial world where people ricochet from one activity to the next. A cyber culture where we rack up 5,847 synthetic Facebook friends. A culture where we spend less and less real…
That night I couldn’t sleep. Images of humans displayed like animals in a pet store window haunted me. When I was nineteen, while traveling through Europe, our tour bus stopped at the Red Light Windows of Amsterdam. As I stood in the middle of the district, window after window displayed women perched on chairs—selling their…
Exciting news! Wing and a Prayer, my ArtPrize 2013 installation, joined the permanent collection at the Hope Network Autism Center. For ArtPrize 2013, I displayed enlarged giclée reproductions of the Wing and a Prayer paintings in the Amway Grand Plaza Hotel; these reproductions were added to the permanent collection at D.A. Blogett and St Johns…