Fri 4/17 @ 11AM
Artist Pamela Dodds, who is Canadian and currently lives in Toronto, lived in Cleveland in the 00s, and exhibited her paintings, drawings and prints at the William Busta Gallery, Jean Brandt Gallery and Asterisk Gallery in Tremont.
In February she opened her first Cleveland show in five years at 78th Street Studios’ Suite 215 Gallery. Something I Want to Tell You — Big Paintings by Pamela Dodds features life-sized paintings, which, she says “address some of the most pressing socio-political issues of our time, including structural segregation in America’s urban centers, domestic violence and sexuality. The resulting works are reflections on the quiet, private struggles that everyone experiences, often as momentous challenges.” She says the work was created through the prism of her feminist, lesbian sensibility.
The powerful, intriguing paintings with their suggestive narratives were originally scheduled to be on view through Friday April 17, but unfortunately the building closed in mid March and both the March and April Third Fridays were cancelled. it’s now scheduled to be on view though May 15, fingers crossed that May’s Third Friday takes place.
However, Dodds is doing a digital artist talk called “Queer Love and Belonging in a Fractured World,” co-hosted with the LGBT Community Center of Greater Cleveland via Zoom. She’ll also talk about her linocut and woodcut prints which she says “investigate harmony and dissonance through paired women and non-binary figures and “explore personal relationships as microcosms of social and cultural landscapes.” Find out more and RSVP here.
Much of the work is viewable at the artist’s website: pameladodds.net/