Pamela Drix
(US)
Pamela Rozelle Drix (born 1954) lives and works in upstate New York. She earned a BA in Fine Art at Kalamazoo College in 1976, a MA in Fine Art at State University of New York Oswego in 1979, and an MFA from Lesley University College of Art and Design in Boston in 2014. In 1999, Pamela co-founded a non-profit printmaking studio The Ink Shop Printmaking Center and Olive Branch Press, which is still in operation. Pamela taught all levels of printmedia and drawing at Ithaca College for twelve years, as well as mentored BFA students in independent projects for a college-wide Summer Scholar program, Freshmen Seminars in printmedia and collage, as well as the final keystone course in Theories and Practice for all BA and BFA students.
Pamela’s recent work focuses on the language of line and the meander using printmedia and drawing to investigate movement, navigation, orientation, and belonging. Fundamentally, Pamela is interested in the notion of place and place-making. Like lines of the wanderings of the bark beetle that function as mapped traces of their movement through space, Pamela’s work encounters site as experience at the edges of sustainable life. She considers psychological, ecological, topographical, geographical, existential, emotional, and aesthetic proclivities to understand the nature of place. Edge life is one of potential and transformation. Living and transforming lie at the center of that edge.
Pamela has participated in numerous exhibitions in the United States and abroad, including Washington D.C., Nevada, New Mexico, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Nova Scotia, Japan, Ireland, England, and Poland. Her work is in the permanent collections of the Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, the Wilson Corporation in Stowe, Vermont, and the San Souci Corporation in the Dominican Republic. She has recently been invited for residencies at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts in Virginia, the Museum of Loss and Renewal in Collemacchia, Italy, le Moulin a Nef in Auvillar, France, and next year at the Scuola Internazionale de Graphica in Venice, Italy.
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