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MY NEW BLOG
Now that I am a full-time student at Lesley University/Art Institute of Boston, please take a look at my new BLOG called 
 
finding valois  
 
 http://findingvalois.blogspot.com/
 
I will be sharing my ongoing work, readings, travels, and musing with you
as I work towards an MFA in Visual Arts.  
Let me know what you think!  
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Cassandra's Dilemma & The Orchid is traveling!
 
Damiani Wine Cellars
Exhibition dates: December 1, 2011 – January 8, 2012
Reception: December 9, 2011 5:30-7:30
Here's a link to the website:   damianiwinecellars.com
 
                                                                                                                                                            

 
This just came in from Yukiko about my exhibition with Neil Berger in Osaka, Japan!

"Pamela's fifteen prints' which are displayed in the Tokonoma are great. Each print is independent and have a harmony on the whole. The Tokonoma is the most important space in a Japanese house and architecture.  We are very happy to welcome such a great artists."  
- Yukiko Nakajima
          Owner, Gallery Ami & Kanoko
 
                                                                                                                                                            

 

 Sunday, October 2, 2011  Noon-6 pm 
CLOSING RECEPTION: Cassandra's Dilemma & The Orchid

2-3 pm Special Guest Sandra Steingraber.  Sandra is a recent recipient of a Heinz Award of $ 100,000 all of which she is devoting toward the fight against hydro-fracking in upstate New York.  For more information about Sandra, visit steingraber.com/ and http://www.ithaca.edu/news/releases/20637/

The Gallery Belle
6243 Route 414
Valois, NY 14841

General gallery hours: Weekends 12-6 or by appointment through October 2nd.

You can find this new gallery in a renovated church on the eastern shore of Seneca Lake in the heart of wine country.

To view more images from this series, click here: 
www.pameladrix.com/portfolio/series/orchid-series-cassandras-dilemma

                                                                                                                                                            

 
Bill Chaisson has just written a wonderful review of my show in Valois.  
Take a look at this link for the article in the Ithaca Times!
 

http://www.ithaca.com/arts_and_entertainment/article_905cfa3c-d358-11e0-a51d-001cc4c002e0.html

                                                                                                                                                             


 

 

Cassandra's Dilemma & The Orchid

 The earth's climate is changing.  With tornados, floods, droughts, hurricanes, heat waves, melting ice caps, and rates of cancers on the rise, we are facing a potentially critical moment in time. We are at the tipping point. Can we change the trajectory?  Environmental activists worldwide are sounding the alarms, but often to deaf ears. It is as if Cassandra, the Greek tragic heroine, has spoken her prophecy, but no one is listening.

The role of the truth teller is often a difficult one.  In the case of Cassandra, her warnings are dismissed. Despite her gift for prophecy, she is unable to change the future.  It is my hope, though, that we heed the warnings, and that we can in fact change our direction.

Upcoming Exhibition of this series!

Opening Reception: 5 – 8 p.m., Sunday, July 31st 
Exhibition dates: July 31 – October 2nd 

This is a opening reception for a new gallery in Valois. This is the first show at The Gallery Belle!
You can find this gallery in a renovated church on the eastern shore of Seneca Lake in the heart of wine country.

The Gallery Belle
6243 Route 414
Valois, NY 14841

To view more images from this series, click here: 
http://www.pameladrix.com/portfolio/series/orchid-series-cassandras-dilemma

                                                                                                                                                             
 
Here's my page just posted on the Community Arts Partnership website. Take a look!  
Click here: CAP artist registry: Pamela Drix
  
                                                                                                                                                             
 
 
The Ink Shop Printmaking Center, Ithaca College and Cornell University hosted Karen Kunc
for a series of demonstrations and lectures in February of 2011.  I had a fabulous time sharing time 
with her and seeing her prints and artist books.  She inspired me in so many ways.
 
  
                                                                                                                                                             
 
Here you can get the sense of the process of a 4-color reduction woodcut.  

 This was hand printed in four different sessions letting each layer dry between printings.

                                                    

                                                                                                                                                             

 

 

  The green orchids at this link are new... hot off the press!  

http://www.pameladrix.com/portfolio/series/botanicals

                                                                                                                                                              

 

Click here for a video that Jiné Andreozzi put together of the Ink Shop Decadia Exhibit and Print sale.  

 

You'll recognize my orchid prints in there!  

 

                                                                                                                                                               

I am part of an Ink Shop member exchange portfolio called Decadia.  

Here is my 3-color woodcut print below.  

This piece is entitled "Orchids", inspired by my trip to Hawaii last summer. 

               
 
Here's a picture of me printing my woodcuts at the Ink Shop Printmaking Center:
 

 

                                                                                                                                                               
 
Fall 2010 and Spring 2011 : Breaking news!  
I'm teaching again at Ithaca College 
...the Introduction Relief & Intaglio course!

                                                                                                                                                               

The Earth Remembers: Reflections on the Holocaust, Gas Drilling, and the Haudenosaunee    

at the Main Street Gallery 105 Main St. PO BOX 161 Groton NY 13073

Below are pictures from my June 2010 solo show at the Main Street Gallery. 

 

The Earth Remembers focuses on the role of historic memory and how our activities impact the sense of place. Unique historic events, whether of the Holocaust or the devastation of the Native American way of life during the Revolutionary War, which are rich in metaphor and visual material, provide points of reference to begin understanding our role as gatekeepers and stewards of the land.   Through my travels and research I find what is left behind -- a record often missing key elements, but which nonetheless reveal profound truths. The earth inherits the results of our activities, for good or bad. This series of prints question and reveal some of the impact of our actions, and hopefully help begin a dialog about how we might create a better world for everyone.

                                                                                                                                                               

My Ithaca College Students' prints from the Intro to Printmaking Intaglio & Relief Class.

In order top to bottom and left to right: Tamar Mackay, Jill Petty, Hannah Siebold, Jine' Andreozzi, Kate Pike, Jill Petty, Kara Joyce, Tamar Mackay, Tamar Mackay, Hannah Siebold, Jine' Andreozzi, Caitlin Reiley, Jeffrey Willis

                                                                                                                                                               

 

Ithaca High School Advanced Placement Art Class visits the Ink Shop for a full day workshop.

IHS Art Class at the Ink Shop

                                                                                                                                                               

For a look at my catalog about the Haudenosaunee Project, click here.  If you are interested in purchasing one of these, please email me.  I will be selling them for $20 each, plus sales tax.    

                                                                                                                                                               

Pamela Drix in the Media:

Arthur Whitman's review of Tompkins County Public Library show 'Landscape and Memory':   http://www.ithacatimes.com/main.asp?Search=1&ArticleID=11809&SectionID=3&SubSectionID=119&S=1

Take a look at the Ithaca Journal review by Arthur Whitman, which appeared in March 2009: 
 
Also read the interview Wylie Schwartz had with me, also in the Ithaca Journal during March 2009,  at the same url above.  

Review in the Syracuse paper:
http://www.syracuse.com/cny/index.ssf?/base/living-6/1241686677267460.xml&coll=1

                                                                                                                                                               

Summer 2009: Trip to trip to Sicily, Italy, and Poland. 

I took over 1200 photographs, some of which were incorporated in The Earth Remembers series of prints.

Summer 2010: Trip to Hawaii.  More photographs.  Lots of orchids!

                                                                                                                                                               

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