Sculptures by Pam Brown

Patterns of Attachment: Sculptures by Pam Brown features small and large scale works by Pam Brown. Inspired by wildlife and American history, Brown’s sculptures explore themes of extinction, the human condition, and the interplay between nature and industry. Using wire, sheet metal and other salvaged materials from abandoned sites, she constructs skeletal, artifact-like forms that blur boundaries between the organic and man-made, familiar and uncanny. In a deliberate, painstaking approach that is evocative of craft traditions and domestic labor, Brown cuts the materials by hand with scissors, assembles and darns them together. Sheet metal and wire replace the fabric and thread of needlework alluding to both “women’s work” and early industrial manufacturing. Brown places gendered practices in new contexts and develops them as signifying elements.

Pam Brown received a B.F.A. from Alfred School of Ceramics, NY and an M.F.A. from Mason Gross School of Art, Rutgers University, NJ. She is the recipient of two National Endowment for the Arts awards, and a NJ State Individual Artist Grant. She served as sculpture faculty, curator and director of the Anthony Giordano Gallery at Dowling College for 17 years. Brown’s work has been exhibited in numerous local and regional galleries, museums and sculpture parks. She currently resides in Stony Brook, NY.

This exhibition is generously sponsored by Nancy Bueti-Randall, the Field Family, Jefferson’s Ferry, Pet ER 24/7, Printers 3 and Suffolk County’s Department of Economic Development and Planning. The exhibition, and reception, and ArTalk will be free and open to the public.