Discipline: Visual Art

Pamela Marks

Discipline: Visual Art
Region: Quaker Hill, CT
MacDowell Fellowships: 1999

Pamela Marks, an American painter, investigates the perceptual play of color in her abstract paintings. She has exhibited in France, Scotland, the Dominican Republic, the Netherlands, Japan, Greece and across the United States. Her work is in several private and public collections including the Tucson Museum of Art; IBM; Tokyo Ana Hotel; Florence Griswold Museum; Benziger Winery; Pabst Brewing Corporation; Singapore Sheraton Hotel; and the Sangre de Cristo Art Center. Her public commission, Healing, is on permanent display at the University of Arizona Health Sciences Library in Tucson.

Marks was an artist-in-residence at Altos de Chavon, Dominican Republic and in Auvillar, France. She has been a fellow at MacDowell and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Marks was also awarded an Exploratory Residency at the Golden Foundation in New Berlin, New York and participated in the Visiting Artist and Scholar Program at the American Academy in Rome. She joined Connecticut College in 1991 where she is now an associate professor of art.

Studios

Firth

Pamela Marks worked in the Firth studio.

Originally a working barn perched atop the namesake hill of Hillcrest Farm, this building was converted to serve the arts in 1956. A grand set of windows was installed to make the large interior suitable for visual artists, bringing in abundant natural light from the north. The addition of a screened porch and accessible entrance ramp…

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