PAMELLA ALLEN AND DONCHELLEE FULWOOD: WALKING TO A DIFFERENT BEAT

Artists Pamella Allen and Donchellee Fulwood represent Black woman artists using art to explore identity and process. The making of work for each is a long experimentation process with ideas and mediums that result in pieces that have a defined character.

Pamella Allen is a descendent of a long line of mystic storytellers. Through her work, she investigates the intersections of memory and nature, body and soul. A Jamaica born, Brooklyn based artist, she uses artifacts from her life experiences pulled from memory and observation, her work is layered in process: mixed media paintings, printmaking, sculpture, paper making, Installation, photography/video essay & prose combine to create her own archetype; a universal language of images found and remembered that speaks to the diversity of her heritage, lived experiences and reverence for the mystic found in our natural world.

Donchellee Fulwood is a Visual Artist born in Secaucus, NJ, and raised in Jersey City. In the course of her work, she creates by using acrylic paints on both canvas and basswood surfaces. She also uses ink on paper to create compositions. By using both mediums, Fulwood came up with a unique trademark of pattern designs within a full shape and in compositions, both in black-and-white and in color. In the course of her work, Fulwood looks back to the flow of lines that she has drawn in her sketchbook. She selects different techniques for her paintings so that she can express her personality and her creativity through unique styles of abstract patterns and blocks of color. Fulwood would fill the whole shape of an object like a shoe or a branch with small patterns in order to define that shape and suggest deeper relationships with nature and life. Through contrasting patterns, she tries to illustrate both sides of emotion in human relationships, based on reality and everyday life. Ever since the Jersey City Art and Studio Tour in 2017, Fulwood has shown her artworks at the Jersey City Rotunda Gallery in City Hall.

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