Holzman Gallery Opening "Awaken"
On view June 18- July 21, 2024
The pure joy and energy of Pamela Crockett’s swirling autumn leaves and dried pods bursting with seeds thoroughly upends the idea that the dying back of autumn into winter’s cold is a time of sadness. In her oil paintings on view in the Visitor’s Center at Adkins Arboretum through March 1, this Baltimore artist proves it to be a beautiful, ever-changing period crowning the whole cycle of the year. There will be a reception to meet the artist on Saturday, January 13 from 2 to 4 p.m.
So Impotent Our Wisdom
Solo Show: "So Impotent Our Wisdom"
In her oil paintings on view in the Visitor’s Center at Adkins Arboretum through March 1, this Baltimore artist proves it to be a beautiful, ever-changing period crowning the whole cycle of the year. There will be a reception to meet the artist on Saturday, January 13 from 2 to 4 p.m.
East City Art Openings in DMV
(not) Strictly Painting, McLean VA, 2023
Not) Strictly Painting is a juried biennial exhibition celebrating the depth and breadth of paintings–or works related in some way to painting–from artists throughout the mid-Atlantic area. Now in its 14th iteration, Strictly Painting is one of the region’s most important painting exhibitions. (Not) Strictly Painting was juried by Tim Brown, Director of IA&A at Hillyer.
Regional Juried Group Show, Washington, DC 2023
Juried Print Edition of Book- Listings in alpha order- Crockett on page 41
See the third listing: Dance of Decay, May 10, 2019
By Mark Jenkins
May 10, 2019 at 5:19 p.m. EDT
Pamela Crockett
The vivid colors and shimmering facets of Pamela Crockett’s oil paintings are not meant to be glamorous. Not exactly, anyway. The Baltimore artist’s Honfleur Gallery show, “The Dance of Decay,” portrays the decomposition of organic matter, mostly vegetal. Yet the large, highly detailed pictures find beauty in rot.
“These delicate remains of life,” declares Crockett’s statement, “reflect both the fragility and the vitality of the earth and its oceans.”
Despite that big-world perspective, the artist focuses on the small stuff, its dancing originally observed under a magnifying glass. Two ragged anchovies face away from each other, and the guts of a dying bloom droop toward the ground. While the depictions are largely realistic, Crockett emphasizes geometry and pattern. “Cartesian Vortices (Onions)” ponders vegetables past their prime but also highlights gleaming skins and parallel bowed lines. In these snapshots of messy metamorphosis, some forms appear eternal.
Pamela Crockett: Dance of Decay Through May 25 at Honfleur Gallery, 1241 Good Hope Rd. SE.
Honfleur Gallery, S.E. Washington DC, May 2019