Pamella Allen Contemporary Art Studio: PEACE & A PRAYER

Pamella Allen Contemporary Art Studio: PEACE & A PRAYER: Its been a while since I put something down here, i have been on lockdown in my studio making art, living & looking at life as I do.. I hav...

PEACE & A PRAYER

Its been a while since I put something down here, i have been on lockdown in my studio making art, living & looking at life as I do.. 

I have a wish for all in this holiday season and the coming 2012..

I have a wish in word and image that i want now to share with you.

For everyone i have a wish for peace and my prayer is for all to be inspired to a good thought followed by a good deed. FAITH.. in ourselves and in one another..Faith pure and True..

 From the shores of a New York Bay to a sacred place of pilgrimage at the foot of the Himalayas evidence of pure love & faith is everywhere.....

  From the Heavens a Rainbow Smiles...

From my studio, a new focus and effort to make my works more accesable to all in the form of Living Art Cards that are available now on line, they are reproductions of past favorites for you to keep on your alter or share with those whom you love!

   http://www.pamellaallen.com/shop-online-living-art-cards.html

Some say that the world will end in 2012..Surely for some that is true, eventually for us all the world does end weather in fact or metaphore.

 Change is inevitable, necessary in fact, for without it we do not evolve and our survival mental, spiritual and psysical depends on such change. So to quote the wise Mahatma Ghandi "Be the change you wish to see.."

THIS MEANS I LOVE YOU

P

Pamella Allen Contemporary Art Studio: IN MY STUDIO

Pamella Allen Contemporary Art Studio: IN MY STUDIO: Greetings!! It has been way too long since my last blog post back in January that was an intro to "In Plain Sight" the artist interviews. To...

IN MY STUDIO

Greetings!! It has been way too long since my last blog post back in January that was an intro to

"In Plain Sight" the artist interviews. To read all of the blogs re-titled Living Arts, go to http://fort-greene.thelocal.nytimes.com/2011/04/07/living-arts-kathleen-hayek/#more-55984

With that journalistic desire fulfilled...Now it is all about ME !! I figured now it is time to invite y'all into my studio to share the goings-on in my little world so here we go. I will try not scare the bejesus out of you by turning this into some kind of deranged therapy session, I promise. 

To call someone prolific is a polite and intellectual way of saying that they are obsessed.... I'm good with that.

A Shadow of My Former Self is a series of self studies that I made a few months ago. Over the past twenty years I have been periodically making self portraits, this is something that most artists do. I think most everybody does this, after all family vacation photos, profile pictures and the like are all a form of the self portrait. We all feel the need to see ourselves objectively and we artists, and me specifically are just more "prolific" about it than most. This series of self portraits came after a succession devastating losses, talk about getting ones proverbial ass kicked, as a result, I could no longer see myself and I needed to take a good look at how such devastating change manifested itself on me. I was amazed to find that the most revealing truths resided in the shadows cast by my flesh when touched by the light of the evening sun.

Here is an Oil Sketch from A Shadow of My Former Self.

You can see the entire body of works on my website

www.pamellaallen.com

More about the self...I love nature , it brings me to an inexplicable peace.

I was commissioned to do a series of photos on the flora and fauna in Brooklyn and as I was shooting plant life I kept seeing shadows and faces within the lines of leaves and in reflections of flower pedals and trees. Following my "prolific" nature, I was brought to "Self Studies and the Natural Mystic"

I realized that these profiles that keep floating around  are some kind of archetypal version of me viewing the world, or if you wanna get really deep into the creative psychobabble, they are manifestations of us mirrored in the mystic of nature. Well that's how I see it anyway, so here is some more.

On a visit to my dear friend and fellow artist G's magical home she asked me to shoot this piece of driftwood that she somehow managed to get back to her 

place from the bay near her home.

I say some how because this old tree is about 7 feet long, yea we artists are a crazy Lott! 

But oh how worth it for her efforts, 

this piece of driftwood carries all of 

the magic in its death that it carried in its life..truly a metaphor for us all..

 

What remains after the sap has left the tree is just as beautiful as it was when its sap flowed freely and its roots clung to the earths nutrient soil.

There is beauty and wisdom in life.

There is beauty and wisdom in death. 

Needing Nature.. I go 'A Cayakin' with G to catch some air to breath...

After a day on the water... I hit the studio in G's creative paradise to adorn Queen Alessandra with the elements of nature in her mystic kingdom.

 Behold the Queen~ Queen Alessandra in her court In the Kingdom of G!

A final though for this day ~ My many silent chyme's whispering ...

Till next time...Peace Love & Light.

P

IN PLAIN SIGHT~ What this thing is all about...

"In Plain Sight" ~ A print and video essay series of studio visit interviews with artists who live full and divergent lives under the fire of their own creative process.

In this series we follow a diverse cross section of artists for one year.

There are a large and diverse number of artists who are hiding “In Plain Sight” working successfully and prolifically outside of the mainstream markets; they are doing inspiring and groundbreaking work in their homes, studios and communities.

These artists are entrepreneurs, educators, engineers, community organizers, etc.

They are men and women of all ages, races, cultures and religions and practice a number of creative genres in the visual, literary and performing arts. 

By evidence of their prolific and divergent lives, these artists challenge and dispel the many myths and pre-conceived notions about what an artist is, and replace them with the fuller story of the many ways in which art, and arts creation direct and inform all aspects of their lives, the lives of those in their community and by extension, the world.

These artist’s stories and their works are woven into the rich fabric of all communities they inspire… and must be shared.

This blog is years in the making!! 

In the coming weeks I will be featuring a selection of dynamic artists, their lives and their works along with some interesting tid~bits, impressions, observations or straight up conjecture on happenings & goings on both globally and locally. Here creativity & humanity meet to tell a story...