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Artist Statement: I am interested in how a painting can create nostalgia, particularly through color and pattern, while evoking the feelings of a glimmer - a micro moment of joy. Glimmers can remind us of the beauty in human connection, and I aim to cultivate a collective sense of well-being. Synthesizing moments I experience and nature that I encounter, I celebrate the abundance of all that makes me human - the hard, scary, and imperfect. My work ranges from wall-scale paintings to stuffed handheld sculptures. Through a practice of looking, I distill objects, plants, and people, inhabiting my domestic space into representational drawings. I manipulate these records of my surroundings into new gestures and patterns, warping my reality into my own visual language. I use the language of embroidery, both in thread and in paint, to bind my experiences of this world together, while exploring my family’s collective stitch archive that was passed down to me.

Pam Poquette (she/her) is an artist, educator, and arts administrator in the Hudson Valley, NY. Pam received her MFA from the University at Albany, SUNY, and her BFA from The College of Saint Rose. She has been an artist in residence at Vermont Studio Center, Walkaway House, and Vinegar Projects. She is a grant recipient from the Teagle Foundation for her teaching work, and a past fellow at the Mandeville Gallery at Union College. She has exhibited at the University Art Museum, Albany, NY; Melrose House, Albany, NY; Joyce Goldstein Gallery, Chatham, NY; Collar Works, Troy, NY; Onondaga Community College, Syracuse, NY; WAAM, Woodstock, NY; and Trestle Gallery, Brooklyn, NY.