Pamela Golden

Pamela Golden often works in series, developed from source materials, where her research is rendered through miniature paintings in oil and encaustic. The separate works have the effect of found images yet with the artist consciously constructing changes evolves a new coherence within the series, creating a different archive. Golden’s images play with the inherent photographic qualities of their original sources, and the intimacy suggested by their small scale. The practice often involves her reimagining absent or potential histories, filling in gaps to generate a strong sense of narrative.  The small scale of the paintings is an important counterpoint to the monumentality of the modernism with which she is engaged.  Recent work has also engaged with other media, such as home video, and musical soundtracks.Having lived and worked in the UK since 1989, Golden often integrates her own cross-cultural referencing into the work.

Golden has exhibited extensively for over 20 years throughout Europe and America, including solo shows at the Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Marlborough Contemporary, London, Graystone, San Francisco, Margaret Murray Fine Art, New York, and Fundacao Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon.

Courtesy of Marlborough Contemporary