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 a multi-disciplinary artist working in soft, stuffed textile paintings and participatory installation.
Through wall-scale paintings, stuffed handheld sculptures, and outdoor installations, I explore 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.
This interest is driven by personal experiences with chronic illness and reproductive health. I explore the body as a site of both vulnerability and resilience. The softness of my materials offers a sense of comfort—both emotional and physical—creating space for reflection, care, and glimmers.
My stuffed paintings feature voids, cut-outs, and layered forms, which derive from medical descriptions of what is happening inside my body, as well as my own reckoning. I reflect both absence and presence: the parts of my body that feel misunderstood or unseen, and the emotional weight the voids carry. My visual language of mark-making transforms the familiar, shaping my environment into an ongoing dialogue between perception, memory, and imagination. I incorporate embroidery patterns and techniques—both in thread and paint—reflecting my invented stitching as well as my family's collective stitch archive into my visual language. This work celebrates the abundance of all that makes me human—the hard, scary, and imperfect.
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 ChaNorth. Alongside her studio practice, 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.
