Pam Glick

Formal play typifies Pam Glick’s practice. Hallmarked by her interest in the universal language of abstraction, Glick describes her painting process “as a playground that I set up.” Calligraphic pencil marks disrupt the paint, undermining the grid structure of the canvas; the layers of mark-making add a cartographical aspect to the work. In The New York Times, Roberta Smith described the paintings as ‘beautiful castoffs, relics of better times, which adds gravity to their improvisational flair.’

Born in Albany, Georgia in 1956, 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. She was also included in group exhibitions at Pat Hearn Gallery and the Drawing Center in New York. In 1981 Glick was included in the ‘Western New York exhibition at Buffalo AKG Art Museum (formerly Albright-Knox Art Gallery). More recently, Glick had a second solo exhibition at White Columns, New York in 2016 and at The Journal Gallery, New York in 2021.

Image and text courtesy of Stephen Friedman Gallery