Pamela DiMauro

Artist Statement

My work addresses reverence towards the natural world and explores my connection to it. Plants have always been part of my life and therefore a priority in my visual language. My work is done in the old, process driven method of etching on copper. I was initially seduced by the infinite amount of details one is able to obtain. With etching the line is emphasized. A line is created by first coating the plate with a resist. Then a needle is used to draw a design into the resist thereby removing areas where the etchant can bite out a trench. The trench is capable of holding ink while the resisted areas are left flat and the ink can be buffed away.

With etchings I draw upon the medium’s sensitive nature to build richness and depth composed out of hundreds of lines. In addition, I use aquatints to give the work a more graphic feeling. Aquatints are created by covering the plate with very fine particles so that the almost invisible openings between those dots can be etched. To the naked eye those tiny etched dots will appear as a gray tone. Shades of gray are achieved by altering the length of the etch, the longer the etch, the darker the tone will appear.

I often wonder at plants and how effortlessly they make growing look, how beautifully they cycle through the seasons, and how graceful they are in their dying. How much we could learn from there nature? My etchings are a tribute to that spirit.

Biography

Date and Place of Birth: 1975, Menomonie, WI

Education:

1998, Bachelor in Fine Arts, St Olaf College, Northfield, NM

Additional Art Education:

1999: University of New Mexico, graduate level photo printmaking

1998: Post-Baccalaureate Apprentice Program

1996: Pratt-Manhattan

1997: Global Semester, Chinese Art, Kowloon University

Selected Exhibitions

2008: Made in New Mexico, Wolverhampton College, Wolverhampton, England

           Art Expressions in Technology and Science, The Art Center at Fuller  

                        Lodge, Los Alamos, NM

2007: Reverence, solo exhibition, New Grounds Gallery, Albuquerque, NM

2006: Print Portfolio X2, Richland College, Dallas, TX

2005: Perrenial Spirit, solo exhibition at New Grounds Gallery, Albuquerque, NM

2003: Drawn From Nature, Flatten Art Museum, Northfield, MN

2002: Waxing Perspective, New Grounds, Albuquerque, NM. Solo show

2001: Strange Fruit, In Hot Water, Annandale, MN

           Recent Landscapes, Emma’s Gallery, Menomonee, WI

          Terra Firma, Around the Comer Gallery, Rio Rancho, NM

2000: Shimmer, Fort 105 Gallery, Albuquerque, NM

1999: Memory Maps, Emma’s Gallery, Menomonee, WI

           Directions, Northfield Arts Guild, Northfield, MN

           Apprentice Show, Steensland Art Museum, Northfield, MN

Awards

1998: Magna Cum Laude, St. Olaf College, Northfield, MN

1998: St. Olaf Art Department Distinction Award

1998: Post-Baccalaureate Apprentice Award

Major Collections:

Albuquerque Museum

Museo de la Estampa, Mexico City

Western University, Silver City, NM

UNM Law School, Albuquerque, NM

UNM Hospital, Albuquerque, NM

Loyola College, Baltimore, MD

Roland Park Country School, Baltimore, MD

Richland College, Dallas, TX

University of North Carolina at Fayetteville

Wolverhampton, England