About

Pam Poquette (she/her) is an artist based in the Hudson Valley, NY.

Contact: pampoquette@gmail.com
Instagram: @pampoquette
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STATMENT
I am interested in how paintings can create nostalgia through color and pattern, while evoking the feeling of a glimmer—a micro moment of joy. Glimmers remind us of the beauty in human connection, and I aim to celebrate that sense of shared experience.

My practice spans wall-scale paintings, stuffed handheld sculptures, and outdoor installations. Through a practice of looking, I visually distill my experiences and the natural world into representational drawings. I then manipulate these records of my surroundings into new gestures and patterns, transforming my reality into my own visual language. I often incorporate patterns and techniques within the language of embroidery—both in thread and paint—reflecting my invented stitching as well as my family's collective stitch archive.

Consolations is a developing body of large-scale work on fabric—both painting and sculpture—that moves beyond an imagined world and directly explores movement between spaces and voids. This work, inspired by my personal experiences over the past few years, celebrates the abundance of all that makes me human—the hard, scary, and imperfect.

Little Comforts is an ongoing body of work consisting of vibrant, tactile handheld stuffed paintings. This work is created to give to community members who identify as someone with a need for comfort, or who would like to give comfort to someone in their life. Comfort can be defined in many ways, and it is up to each community member to determine what that means for them.

BIO:
Pam Poquette (she/her) is an artist, educator, and arts administrator based in the Hudson Valley, NY, whose work explores themes of glimmers by evoking nostalgia through color and pattern. Pam's work has been supported by NYSCA's Statewide Community Regrant Program for her project Little Comforts, as well as by the Create Council on the Arts and Columbia County, NY, Catalyst Grant for her project Consolations. She has also received a Teagle Foundation grant in recognition of her work as an educator.

Pam has attended several residencies, including Vermont Studio Center, Walkaway House, and Collar Works, and she will be in residence at ChaNorth this summer. Alongside her studio work, Pam is the founder of Home Studio Chats, a project dedicated to supporting and promoting the work of artists who primarily create in home studios.

She received her MFA from the University at Albany and her BFA from The College of Saint Rose. Her work has recently been exhibited at the University Art Museum in Albany, NY; Joyce Goldstein Gallery in Chatham, NY; The Green Lodge in Chatham, NY; Collar Works in Troy, NY; Onondaga Community College in Syracuse, NY; and Trestle Gallery in Brooklyn, NY.