Lois Dickson and Pamela Salisbury “New Work 2016”

The Painting Center

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The Painting Center presents Lois Dickson: New Work 2016 in the Main Gallery and Pamela Salisbury: New Work in the Project Room.

Lois Dickson makes her paintings in response to images that emerge from her imagination. A painting can evolve using spontaneous sweeping and interlocking gestures. As images appear on her canvas, and colors ask to be present, the process of working and solving the painting begins. The result is a conflagration of images that are simultaneously imaginative and engineered, deliberate and accidental. She is very influenced by the work of early European abstract painters and by the Americans: Marsden Hartley and, especially, Arthur Dove. She states: “I continue to be interested primarily in the fundamentals of picture making: form, space, color. With this recent body of work, I am also opening the door to surprise narratives. While I always hope to invite something “dark”, I find humorous personalities taking up residence. I think I’ll let them stay for now.”

Lois Dickson was born in Cleveland, Ohio. She received a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Michigan, a Master of Fine Arts from the New York Academy of Art and Honors in Drawing from the New York Studio School’s full time Certificate Program. Lois has exhibited extensively the Northeast, including six solo shows at the John Davis Gallery, NYC and Hudson, NY; a solo show at North Point Gallery, Kinderhook, NY; and The Witherspoon Gallery, Princeton, NJ. Selected Group Exhibitions include: Nina Nielson Gallery, Boston, MA; John Davis Gallery, Hudson, NYC; and The Prince Street Gallery, The Bowery Gallery, Art and Democracy Gallery, The New York Studio School, and The Painting Center- all in NYC.
The Project Room is dedicated to an exhibition of recent work by Pamela Salisbury. The show is comprised of sixteen small-scale paintings, ranging in size from 4 x 4 inches to 12 x 12 inches. All works are acrylic paint on wood panel. The new work represents a departure from the artist’s earlier oil paintings, which were made from observation and often made reference to birds and their habitat. While she continues to borrow basic shapes from the natural world, the forms are more abstract, and in many examples, highly stylized. The space created through color juxtapositions, and by overlapping and fusing form, is of special interest.

Pamela Salisbury received a BA in Sculpture from Bennington College, VT, and an MFA in Painting from the New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting, & Sculpture, where she worked as an administrative associate through 2015. Her paintings have been shown in New Jersey and New York at venues including the Huntington Museum of Art, NJ; Riverside Studio, NJ; Panther Creek, NY; and The Studio School, NY. She is especially proud to be showing at the Painting Center with her mother, the artist Lois Dickson. Salisbury lives and works full-time in Kinderhook, NY.