ARTIST STATEMENT
Founder (2011-2022) began as a look at the US Founding Fathers through the lens of my experience as a new mother and female professor at a university founded by one of the country’s most prominent patriarchs, Thomas Jefferson. Reflecting on the intersection of personal, political, gendered, and geographic histories, I brought the local landscape (and its traces of the Founding Fathers) into the studio to scan, print, cut, collage, and re-photograph it. The project expanded when I relocated to the Boston area and the birthplace of the American Revolution. Founder challenges notions of recorded history–questioning the authors and considering their identities as mostly white men.
I am a multi-disciplinary artist whose practice is rooted in photography. My current process has two distinct phases: first to research and gather, and then to intuitively assemble works in my studio. I respond to color, pattern, and form, using a range of analog, historic, and digital processes to create unique mixed media collages and re-photographed assemblages. I explore the relationship between photography and history, and how both are often perceived as the truth, despite their inherent subjectivity. I use collage and the juxtaposition of imagery as a reminder that varied stories can be told from the same set of facts.
ARTIST BIO
Pamela Pecchio is a Boston-area multidisciplinary artist whose practice is rooted in photography. She received her BFA from the University of Georgia, and her MFA from Yale University where she was awarded the Richard Dixon Welling Prize.
Her work has been included in exhibitions at Aperture, Daniel Cooney Fine Art, and Wallspace Galleries in New York, as well as internationally at The Jordan National Gallery of Art in Amman, International Art Camp in Beijing, China, the Amsterdam DreamBike Festival, and Köeln Art in Cologne, Germany. Recent group museum exhibitions include the Lowe Art Museum, Figge Art Museum, Chrysler Museum of Art, Columbus Museum of Art, and Georgia Museum of Art. Her work has been reviewed in The New Yorker, the Village Voice, and Art Papers. She is the author of two books, eight, (Nexus Press) and 509, a limited edition monograph (Daniel 13 Press).
Permanent collections include the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, the Yale University Art Museum, the North Carolina Museum of Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, and the Ogden Museum of Southern Art. Pecchio is currently Professor of the Practice at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University.