b. Albany, GA, 1956
Pam Glick is a painter whose practice is defined by formal play, layering organic mark-making with a grid structure. Glick describes her painting process “as a playground that I set up.” Calligraphic pencil marks disrupt the paint and trace cartographical contours inspired by flowing water. Glick imagines a ubiquitous connection between water and abstract painting; the architecture of water permeates her oeuvre, in the pull between straight line and gestural curve and a contained unruliness within the space of the canvas.
Glick studied Painting at the Rhode Island School of Design in 1980, where she was a recipient of the Florence Leif Award. She received her MFA from the University of Buffalo in 2019. Glick’s paintings were widely exhibited during the 1980s and 1990s, most notably with solo shows at White Columns, Wolff Gallery and Hirschl and Adler in New York and Michael Kohn Gallery in Los Angeles. In 1981 Glick was included in the ‘Western New York’ exhibition at Buffalo AKG Art Museum. In 1995, Glick moved to Vermont to focus on her young family. During this time, her practice predominately centered around collage and works on paper. In 2019 Glick was awarded an artist residency at BuBu, Budapest, Hungary, culminating in an exhibition at Budapest Art Factory. Glick’s work is included in several collections including Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York; The Broad, Los Angeles, California; Burchfield Penney Art Center, Buffalo, New York; The Eli & Edythe Broad Foundation, Los Angeles, California; Deutsche Bank, New York and Citi Bank, New York.
