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Pam Cartmel
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Biography
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PAM CARTMEL
Bio
I received a B.F.A. from Arizona State University in Painting and Drawing. Throughout school I worked as a scenic artist in the opera theatre. One of our most notable productions, "Mozart's Magic Flute", designed by a native American Indian was sold to an opera house in Vienna, Austria - six 30' x 60' backdrops and several set pieces we had drawn and painted. The production was sold out throughout its entire run.
After finishing my degree I taught sculpture at the Parks and Recreation Department, worked in an artist's studio in Phoenix and then moved to New York City where I worked at the Sculptor's Guild in Soho selling paintings and sculpture. The Guggenheim Museum followed and then the Museum of Folk Art several years later.
At the Guggenheim, I worked in the Preparations Department as the coordinator for three years helping to organize and mount exhibitions, working with their five other departments and on their Children's Art program.
I returned to painting for the theatre and after working for scenic and commercial studios in New York, I painted backdrops for Off-Broadway on 42nd Street and several of the small theatres in Manhattan - the Cherry Lane Theatre in the West Village was one where we did "Nunsense". At Lincoln Center I worked on a play by David Rabe, "Goose and Tom Tom" that was Madonna's acting debut when she was making the transition from a music star to the screen. Some television work in New York followed.
I then returned to school and finished the graduate program in Art Therapy at New York University and worked as the Assistant Gallery Director at the Folk Art Museum for a year, supervising 45 docents and working on exhibitions in the gallery as well as with the psychiatry department at Columbia University to set up an artist-in-residence program for at-risk youth, before leaving New York to work as an Art Therapist in Los Angeles. After five years of working with patients, psychiatrists and psychologists from Harlem to Santa Monica, I opened an Art Gallery at Bergamot Station in Santa Monica that I had for nearly two years.
I returned to television work and film. The most notable productions I've worked on are Tom Hanks/Spielbergs'
"The Pacific", Clint Eastwood's "Bloodwork", "Million Dollar Baby", "Flags of Our Fathers", "Letters from Iwo Jima" "Changeling", and Allison Eastwood's, "Rails and Ties. Next was Garry Marshal's "Valentine's Day".
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Statement
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I make art because I feel compelled to. It reflects many different moods and phases in my life. My work at times has been a direct expression of some raw emotion. Other times just silly and playful. The latest piece uses symbols as a metaphor of life experience. What I hope to express in my work are feelings that are universal, common to everyone as they make their way through life, a shared humanity with common ground.
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Exhibitions
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Gallery 800
5108 Lankershim Blvd.
North Hollywood, CA 91601
(818)763-8052
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