pamela talese

A committed on-site painter, Pamela Talese works on location, painting en plein air during successive visits over several weeks. The length of time depends on the subject: how complicated the scene is or how long the central subject remains. Many of the sites that interest Talese are those in transition. Ships float off and structures are often bulldozed soon after or during the artists efforts to paint them. However Talese maintains that the on-site element is essential for the completion of each painting as "I can’t get all of the information I need any other way. My connection with the scene from the standing out in it, watching the weather, tracking the light, and scrambling to render the effects is so exciting that its make the challenges of truck traffic and dirt, the changing weather and wind worth it."

Talese is a New York City native whose ‘city paintings’ focus on old industrial structures, hidden classical architecture, curious monuments, and document features of New York City which were once vital but are now disappearing as a result of inexorable decay or the onslaught of development. She has also painted landscapes in Wyoming, Vermont, Italy and Scotland. Talese studied drawing, lithography, and typography at Smith College, and painting at The Arts Student League in New York and at The International School of Art in Todi, Italy. Her work has been reviewed in The New York Times, ARTnews, CityARTS, and other publications. Talese's paintings are in private and corporate collections, as well as in he Henry Luce III Center for the Study of American Culture atthe NEW YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY, New York, NY.

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