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PAM TOLL OPENING JUNE 1st
"Swimmers" by Pam Toll, acrylic and pastel on paper, 50" x 50", photo by Gary Breece Pamela Wallace Toll was born in Stillwater, Oklahoma. Narrative and myth engaged her imagination from an early age as she heard stories from both sides of the family. The women in her family made quilts and she admits that her own paintings are made of pieced together myths, narratives, and images in addition to a mixture of materials. “I am in some ways as fascinated with words as with color, but painting, for me, is a more immediate and economical form of expression.” Toll’s work is driven by narrative themes of time, memory, and myth. Paintings are painted on paintings in an effort to merge dualities of the conscious and unconscious, surface and depth, reality and the subterranean of dreams and memories, reality and the imagined, the spoken and unsaid, myth and history, and narrative and the still moment. Her process is a cycle of creating chaos, creating order, creating chaos and then creating order once again. The painting nearest the primer is figuratively the pool from which the surface is fished. Toll studied Art and English Literature at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. She earned a Masters of Fine Arts in painting at East Carolina University. In addition to painting, Pamela co-administrates Acme Art Studios (where 23 artists work at their art), co-organizes No Boundaries International Art Colony, and is an assistant professor in the Art and Art History Department at the University of North Carolina in Wilmington. In 2008 she participated in two “Paint-a-Future” symposiums; Florianopolis, Brazil in May and Rully, France in September. In 2009 she was a guest artist at Simposio Internacional de Artistas en Noja, Spain and was also nominated for a United States Artist Fellowship. Opening on Friday, June 1st, 6-9 p.m. and on display through June. |
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