PAMELA PHILLIPS & TREMAIN SMITH EXHIBITION

14 MARCH - 14 APRIL, 2018

Y:ART Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of its eighteenth exhibition, featuring the exceptional paintings by Pam Phillips and Tremain Smith. The opening reception will be held on Saturday, March 17, 2018 from 6pm - 9pm.

This exhibition will showcase work encompassing beauty, spirituality, and the connection to the world around us. Both Pamela and Tremain aim to reveal experiences unseen by the naked eye, yet felt within the physical body. They bring natural elements into their work, which guide them into the meditative state of creation. This is a crucial part of their practice that comes to life through the work.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS:

Pamela Phillips is mainly known for being a figurative painter. An underlying botanical dialogue and exploration weaves its way throughout each drawing or painting that she does, expressing the core message that man and nature must coexist as kindred spirits. Phillips uses the figure as a vehicle to convey her deep connection to nature and spirituality.

The eco-spirituality movement that continues today has greatly inspired and guided her work over the years. Books, poetry and travel influence the work as well, often conveyed through color and text that translate the feeling of a place she has previously traveled to.

Phillips’ work has been exhibited over the years in numerous group and solo exhibitions here on the East Coast, as well as in Venezuela, the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Costa Rica and Nepal.

Many paintings and drawings are included in numerous private and public collections including the Inter-American Development Bank, Washington DC, The Health Insurance Association of America, Washington DC, The Lockheed-Martin Corporation, Bethesda, MD, The Maryland Artists Collection of the University of Maryland and also in the permanent collection of the Nepal Academy of Fine Arts, Kathmandu, Nepal. Pamela Phillips has a BFA from Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD.

Tremain Smith has four works in the permanent collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Her work is in corporate and private collections across the country. She has had dozens of solo exhibitions in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Atlanta, Philadelphia, Scottsdale, Maine, Delaware, Florida and Hawaii. Group exhibitions include SOFA Chicago, Art Miami, the Painted Bride, the Philadelphia Art Alliance, and the USArtists American Fine Art Show. She was an artist-in-residence at the McColl Center for Visual Art in 2004.

Smith has been reviewed extensively including coverage by the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Chicago Tribune and the LA Weekly. Her work is included in Encaustic Art in the Twenty-First Century by Anne Lee & E. Ashley Rooney published by Schiffer Publishing, The Art of Encaustic Painting Contemporary Expression in the Ancient Medium of Pigmented Wax published by Watson-Guptill, and in the art journal New American Paintings. Smith studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Tyler School of Art, Carnegie-Mellon University and the University of Pennsylvania. She has a Teaching Artist Certificate from the University of the Arts.

Alongside her studio practice, Tremain teaches, lectures, and leads workshops. In 2014, she was a panelist at the Eighth International Encaustic Conference presenting on “The Roots of Contemporary Encaustic”.

Her artistic concerns center on portraying physical and spiritual beauty through the elements of painting. The lines, shapes and colors are mappings of the unseen world. The technique she uses is composed of layers of oil glazes, collaged elements, and transparent beeswax.

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Y:ART Gallery & Fine Gifts is a labor of love, brought to life by Julia Yensho on October 10th, 2015. The gallery exhibits primarily Baltimore-based artists creating exceptional one-of-a-kind artworks. Y:ART’s gift shop specializes in carrying original sculptures, paintings and quality hand-crafted jewelry. This unique space is open for artist showings and workshops, and the gallery is also available as a venue for private social gatherings. Our hours are Wednesday-Thursday 12pm-5pm, Friday-Saturday 10am-6pm.

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