PAMELA KROLL
EDUCATION
University of Arizona, BFA, 1972
UCLA, Extended Study in Fiber Arts with Neda Al-Hilali, 1975
SHOWS AND EXHIBITIONS
2005 4 Person Exhibit Hanson Howard Gallery Ashland, Oregon "Visual Poetry from the Heart" (Juror's Award) Mirror Pond Gallery Bend, Oregon 2004 Group Show White Bird Gallery Cannon Beach, Oregon "In Celebration of the Human Spirit" Hanson Howard Gallery Ashland, Oregon "25th Year Anniversary Invitational" Sunbird Gallery Bend, Oregon 2003 "Women with Heart" Sun Valley Gallery Sun Valley, Idaho "Soaring Spirits" Hanson Howard Gallery Ashland, Oregon "The Inscape of Us" Mirror Pond Gallery Bend, Oregon "Spring Unveiling Show" White Bird Gallery Cannon Beach, Oregon 3 Person Show Sun Valley Gallery Sun Valley, Idaho "Our Story" Sun Valley Gallery Sun Valley, Idaho 2002 "Made in America" Smith and Jones Gallery Bend, Oregon "Free Spirits" Hanson Howard Gallery Ashland, Oregon White Bird Summer Show White Bird Gallery Cannon Beach, Oregon 2001 "Pamela Kroll - Whimsical Narrative Collage" White Bird Gallery Cannon Beach, Oregon "Magical Realism" Hanson Howard Gallery Ashland, Oregon 2000 "Contemporary Images of the West" Smith and Jones Gallery Bend, Oregon "Contemporary Iconography" (Invitational) Mirror Pond Gallery Bend, Oregon 1999 "Featured Artist Show" Sunbird Gallery Bend, Oregon 1998 "The World of Imagination" Sunbird Gallery Bend, Oregon Juried Show, "Art in Sedona" Sedona, Arizona 1997 Quilt and Fiber Show Sunbird Gallery Bend, Oregon "Personal and Cultural Symbolism in Art" Invitational Mirror Pond Gallery Bend, Oregon 1996 Winner of Juried "Bend Summer Festival" Poster Contest Bend, Oregon 1994 Group Shows 1994 to present Sunbird Gallery Bend, Oregon 1993 "Flying Gypsies" & Selected Work Harvard Square Gallery Claremont, California 1989-93 Fringe of the Fringe Show Invitational & Auction Claremont Graduate School Claremont, California 1990-91 Selected Work Artist Trait Gallery Upland, California 1990 "Christmas Fantasies" Invitational Galleria Beretich Claremont, California 1988 Professor's Choice III Montgomery Gallery, Pomona College Claremont, California 1987 Julia Morgan Memorial Exhibition (Juror: Suzanne Muchnic) Riverside Art Museum Riverside, California 1985 "Walking the Periphery with Juanita & Dr. Strange", Installation The New Gallery, Riverside Art Museum Riverside, Calif. Visual Arts "85" 1st Annual Juried Show (Juror: Roland Reiss) Laguna Beach, California OCCCA 5th Annual Juried show (Juror: Josine Janco-Starrels) Orange County Art Museum Orange County, California Group Show Wilde Meyer Gallery Scottsdale, Arizona "Claremont Locals" Chrysalis Gallery Claremont, California Ink and Clay XII Juried Show (Juror: Paul Darrow) Cal Poly State College, Pomona, California 1983 "Juanita Goes to Japan" Wandering Eye Gallery Claremont, California 1982 Materials Interests Chrysalis Gallery Upland, California National Fiberarts Double Exhibition University of Missouri Columbia, Missouri 1981 Fibrecations Invitational Show Riverside Art Museum Riverside, California Fiber Structure National (Juror: Neda Al-Hilali) Downey Museum of Art Downey, California Diversities '81 Designs Recycled Gallery Fullerton, California 1980 Focus Mills House Garden Grove, California 1979 All Media Exhibition Guggenheim Gallery, Chapman College Orange, California
Work is found in California hotels, health centers, hospitals, and corporate offices as well as hotels in Arizona, Hawaii, and Taipei, and in many private collections.
ARTIST STATEMENT
The art process for me is similar to going on a journey and being presented with a mystery to solve. There are clues, a few signs. Symbols reveal themselves and roads appear. Layers of color and texture become layers of consciousness. Scratching through paper is searching for the map, looking for the inner structure. And beads sewn on paper are seeds of energy that momentarily become visible.
Many of the images I'm attracted to are found in other cultures: "The Tree of Life," saints, demons, animals with human characteristics. Skeletons are reminders of our past and our ancestors. Men wearing animal faces are symbolic of our primitive, intuitive nature. Figures floating in space are moving through time or spiritual dimensions. I am creating my own mythology made up of diverse symbols, but it is for the viewer to decipher the mystery.
Making art is a process that always amazes me. I take an idea along and travel some magical track - sometimes one of a spiritual nature, sometimes one of self-discovery, until I arrive at my destination, which is, of course, the finished piece. The adventure is full of surprises and once in a while, a detour or two. But it's lots of fun, kind of like life.