Pamela Davis Kivelson “A Gentle Madness: Art Collectors And Their Passion”
Mark Miller Gallery
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Mark Miller Gallery presents a solo exhibition/installation by Pamela Davis Kivelson working between theater and painting.
Kivelson’s paintings are presented as characters in a kind of theater installation in which we are presented with an intimate view of the precise details that catch a collector’s eye when they are living with art. Why is the experience of discovering art so powerful? What matters – refrigerator art, taste, trends, fashion, investment, personal satisfaction, or being a custodian of culture? Kivelson portrays the places, details and objects that shape the collector’s vision - for example, the way a color field painting seems less “precious” displayed on a shelf with books on the subject.
“Pamela Davis Kivelson’s work is intriguing because she is doing something different, something no one else is doing,” said Mark Miller of Mark Miller Gallery. “The stories created through her work reveal a different perspective of the inner life of these collectors.”
Kivelson has portrayed nine collectors in a series of images whose iconography tells stories of objects found and bought. Jackson Pollock, Ellsworth Kelly, Jeff Koons, Morris Lewis, Richard Diebenkorn and others are represented in the irreverent invocations Kivelson has painted of the collectors’ prized possessions. In this meta-exhibit, the art-lover becomes the art; collectors become the collected. A portrait is created of the individual behind the collection.
About The Artist
Pamela Davis Kivelson is a Silicon Valley based artist and Stanford University lecturer. Kivelson has exhibited her work nationally and internationally in a number of solo shows in museums and galleries including Krannert, DeSasset, Wight Art Gallery, Robert Koch, Stephen Cohen and Moreton Street. Kivelson has also exhibited at many universities including Columbia, Stanford, Texas at Austin and Michigan State. She has been artist in residence at the American Institute of Mathematics and at Stanford University. Recently, Kivelson and her group, Drawing Orchestra, performed “Drawing with Tetrahedra” with the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra at Stanford University’s Bing Concert Hall.
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Schedule
from May 16, 2014 to June 29, 2014
Opening Reception on 2014-05-17 from 18:00 to 21:00