Pam Evelyn. Photo: Robert Glowacki, courtesy of Pace Gallery
Pam Evelyn
PROJECT
Created using a process that can take several months, Pam Evelyn’s paintings are composed of layers of applied paint intended – at least at first – to reveal all marks from the first to the final. The artist sees her works as inherently figurative but with their own distinct logic whereby bodily associations and emotional states emerge from the painterly field. Though her work is closely associated with the Abstract Impressionist movement of the 1950s, Evelyn also pulls inspiration from music and diverse art-historical periods. Focal length exemplifies Evelyn’s manipulation of non-representational forms, which operate closely with bodily and topographical forms.
Gift of iArtis Foundation
ABOUT
Award-winning artist Pam Evelyn holds a BFA from the Slade School of Fine Art, London, and an MA in Painting from the Royal College of Art, London. Evelyn’s work is held in the public collections of Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin (Italy) and the Zabludowicz Collection, London (UK). She has held solo exhibitions at Warwick Arts Centre (UK) and Massimo De Carlo Pièce Unique, Paris (France), and her work has been featured in group exhibitions including A New British Modernity, Burberry Art Space, Seoul (South Korea); Alchemists, Pond Society, Shanghai (China); and Abstraction (Re)Creation – 20 Under 40, X Museum, Beijing (China). In 2023 Evelyn was commissioned by London’s Whitechapel Gallery to create two etchings to accompany the major exhibition Action, Gesture, Paint: Women Artists and Global Abstraction 1940–1970.