Gallery: Pam Glick

June 4–July 16, 2016 320 West 13th Street Gallery
(Blue Lines) Niagara, an abstract painting composed of horizontal and diagonal blue lines on a plain white background. The work is installed above the stairs near the gallery entrance.

Pam Glick, installation view, 2016

Ten similarly sized abstract paintings installed salon style on a wall.

Pam Glick, installation view, 2016

The abstract paintings NF Incolor and Life Starts Now - A Page from Marilyn Monroe's Diary installed side by side on a wall. The latter work is significantly larger than NF Incolor.

Pam Glick, installation view, 2016

Three paintings installed on two adjacent walls: Niagara-USA-Canada and Flanges on the left, and 2 Niagaras on the right.

Pam Glick, installation view, 2016

Four paintings installed along two walls. From left to right: Red, White, and Blue Dowser, Black and White Niagara, Reclining and Wild Turkeys Tracks.

Pam Glick, installation view, 2016

A large, abstract square painting made from white and red marks of various colors and textures over a blue background.

Pam Glick

Red, White, and Blue Dowser, 2016

Oil and enamel on canvas

72 × 72 in.

An abstract depiction of a waterfall composed of similarly sized horizontal and vertical black lines on a plain white background.

Pam Glick

Black and White Niagara, 2015

Oil and enamel on wood

24 × 24 in.

An abstract painting composed of large black and yellow strokes over a surface that appears to have been covered with scribbled crayon marks of various colors.

Pam Glick

Bag of Toys JFK-Phoenix, 2016

Oil and enamel on canvas

24 × 18 in.

An abstract painting composed of black marks resembling spray paint, superimposed over various red, purple and pink markings.

Pam Glick

Just Friends, 2016

Oil and enamel on canvas

24 × 18 in.

Press Release

White Columns is proud to present a solo exhibition by the Buffalo, New York-based artist Pam Glick – her first exhibition in New York in almost 25 years. Glick’s exhibition comprises of a recent group of twenty paintings – typically made with oil and enamel paint – that together might be understood as psychologically-charged landscapes. In her work, Glick often returns to, or perhaps more accurately departs from, a schematic image of Niagara Falls – a recurring visual metaphor for both the inevitability of change and the potential for renewal – which she subsequently abstracts and deconstructs, creating in turn visceral, complex, and labyrinthine paintings that suggest a form of psychological and emotional mapping. Glick’s gestural mark making is often calligraphic; fragmentary language, from a wide range of sources, manifests in the work, establishing a kind of visual ‘patois’, a lyrical aesthetic-narrative form, at once legible and illegible.

Pam Glick lives and works in Buffalo, New York. She received a BA in painting in 1980 at the Rhode Island School of Design, Her first solo exhibition took place at White Columns in 1981. Her work was subsequently exhibited widely during the 1980s and 1990s, including solo exhibitions at the Wolff Gallery, New York; Hirschl and Adler, New York; and Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, among others. Group shows included White Columns (1982); Pat Hearn Gallery (1983), and the Drawing Center (1990), among others. She recently had a solo exhibition at BT&C Gallery, Buffalo (2016), and her work was included in the Hallwalls survey exhibition ‘Amid/In Western New York’ (Buffalo, 2015.)

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Checklist

(Blue Lines) Niagara, an abstract painting composed of horizontal and diagonal blue lines on a plain white background. The work is installed above the stairs near the gallery entrance.
Ten similarly sized abstract paintings installed salon style on a wall.
The abstract paintings NF Incolor and Life Starts Now - A Page from Marilyn Monroe's Diary installed side by side on a wall. The latter work is significantly larger than NF Incolor.
Three paintings installed on two adjacent walls: Niagara-USA-Canada and Flanges on the left, and 2 Niagaras on the right.
Four paintings installed along two walls. From left to right: Red, White, and Blue Dowser, Black and White Niagara, Reclining and Wild Turkeys Tracks.
A large, abstract square painting made from white and red marks of various colors and textures over a blue background.
An abstract depiction of a waterfall composed of similarly sized horizontal and vertical black lines on a plain white background.
An abstract painting composed of large black and yellow strokes over a surface that appears to have been covered with scribbled crayon marks of various colors.
An abstract painting composed of black marks resembling spray paint, superimposed over various red, purple and pink markings.

Pam Glick, installation view, 2016 ((Blue Lines) Niagara, an abstract painting composed of horizontal and diagonal blue lines on a plain white background. The work is installed above the stairs near the gallery entrance.)

Pam Glick, installation view, 2016 (Ten similarly sized abstract paintings installed salon style on a wall.)

Pam Glick, installation view, 2016 (The abstract paintings NF Incolor and Life Starts Now – A Page from Marilyn Monroe’s Diary installed side by side on a wall. The latter work is significantly larger than NF Incolor.)

Pam Glick, installation view, 2016 (Three paintings installed on two adjacent walls: Niagara-USA-Canada and Flanges on the left, and 2 Niagaras on the right.)

Pam Glick, installation view, 2016 (Four paintings installed along two walls. From left to right: Red, White, and Blue Dowser, Black and White Niagara, Reclining and Wild Turkeys Tracks.)

Pam Glick Red, White, and Blue Dowser, 2016 Oil and enamel on canvas 72 × 72 in. (A large, abstract square painting made from white and red marks of various colors and textures over a blue background.)

Pam Glick Black and White Niagara, 2015 Oil and enamel on wood 24 × 24 in. (An abstract depiction of a waterfall composed of similarly sized horizontal and vertical black lines on a plain white background.)

Pam Glick Bag of Toys JFK-Phoenix, 2016 Oil and enamel on canvas 24 × 18 in. (An abstract painting composed of large black and yellow strokes over a surface that appears to have been covered with scribbled crayon marks of various colors.)

Pam Glick Just Friends, 2016 Oil and enamel on canvas 24 × 18 in. (An abstract painting composed of black marks resembling spray paint, superimposed over various red, purple and pink markings.)