Hope You Can Make
it!
Solo Art Exhibition
Respite
Still Full of Life, Just Out of Bloom
Opening:
Saturday, September 28, 7-10pm
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Fogartyville Art Center
525 Kumquat Court
Sarasota, Florida
For more information and photo requests, please contact Pamela Callender
941.932.2993
callenderpamela@gmail.com
www.pamelacallender.com
Artist and curator Pamela Callender opens Fogartyville Art Center 2019/2020
visual art season with her solo showRespite: Still Full of Life, Just
Out of Bloom,a retrospective collection of artwork accomplished while
caring for her parents over the past twelve years.
After her father died in 2009, Pamela left a successful dance-teaching
career to care for her disabled mother. While tightly tethered to the
home for what turned out to last ten years, she completed her Master
of Fine Art degree in Interdisciplinary Art and focused on an Environmental
Art practice. Respiteis presented with a mix of a little bit of Callender’s
sense of humor while offering insight to the resolution that caregivers
face.
The term "Environmental Art" in the 1930’s has been
described as conceptual art in three-dimensional atmospheres. This application
unites reality with art by providing the audience with a sense of inclusion
while displaying metaphors of everyday life and far-reaching societal
issues. A more contemporary characterization of Environmental Art is
artwork made from nature, in nature. Callender’s Respitecollection
offers examples of both definitions as well as a series of work she
has developed and calls, Patina Prints.
On opening night of Respite,the Fogartyville food truck and beer &
wine bar will be open for business, and live music playing on stage
with James Varnardo on drums. Callender’s wide range of style
will be demonstrated and on display in the patio gardens and main gallery
space. A champagne toast will be given in thanks to all the people who
visited and became part of Pamela’s respite during this caregiving
period.
Callender is the recipient of the 2018 John Ringling Tower Fund grant
that helped support the development of her website, www.ecoartnews.com
launching at the Respite opening reception. Pamela is also
an Adjunct Professor of Environmental Art at Eckerd College, and Art
Curator for Friends of Sarasota County Parks and Fogartyville Art Center.
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