PAMELA WILSON-RYCKMAN ::::

Pamela Wilson-Ryckman transforms photographic images from the news media into paintings. Whether from news print or televised photography, the artist distills images of the aftermath of disasters into watercolors. The destruction and chaos, whether manmade or caused by nature, are rendered quiet and fragile, mirroring the situation portrayed. Her paintings suggest the physical forms these violent images eventually might take as they are tacitly stored in our memories. Her work juxtaposes order and beauty with the horrors of daily disaster, striving to unsettle the viewer’s malaise and apathy.

Wilson-Ryckman has had solo exhibitions at Monique Meloche Gallery in Chicago and Gallery Paule Anglim in San Francisco. Group exhibitions include such venues as the San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art; the International Center for the Arts at San Francisco State University; Bienal Internacional de Arte Contemporáneo de Sevilla (BIACS) in Seville (Spain); the Mills College Art Museum in Oakland; and James Cohan Gallery in New York.