Artist Pam Brown constructs skeletal, artifact-like sculptures that are built from wire, sheet metal, and salvaged materials. Inspired by wildlife, extinction, and American history, the forms reference animal and human anatomy. Delicate and sometimes whimsical, they utilize positive and negative space to allow light and air through their open structures.
Her process is deliberate and painstaking. Shapes are cut from sheet metal with scissors, and assembled or "darned" together using sewing techniques, with metal and wire standing in for fabric and thread. This approach consciously evokes both domestic craft traditions and early industrial manufacturing, re-contextualizing gendered labor as something corporeal and emblematic, distinct from the heavy-handed conventions of traditional sculpture.
Pam Brown is a sculptor based in Stony Brook, New York, whose work spans large-scale public installation and intimate tabletop and wall pieces rooted in American history and the natural world. Educated at Alfred University, the Maryland Institute of Art, and Rutgers University, she has been awarded fellowships at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, residencies at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York Foundation for the Arts. Her public sculpture has been exhibited at Socrates Sculpture Park, Chesterwood Preservation, and institutions across the Northeast, while her studio practice continues to explore urgent themes of deforestation, extinction, and the fragile relationship between politics and the environment.
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