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Pamela Masik Beneath the Veil
About Pamela Masik
Vancouver based artist Pamela Masik creates art that is challenging yet hypersensitive; an uncommon paradox. In previous work, she sequestered herself in a sensory deprivation box for five days; meditated for extensive periods of time before unleashing her creative forces on canvas; and activated her whole body, covered in brushes, to create paintings. Like the mid-20th century American painter Mark Tobey, Masik attempts to clear away all rational and exterior practices in an effort to access a rich inner experience.
To the accompaniment of music, she unleashes her creative forces using buckets of paint and brushes fashioned from brooms, mops, sponges and rakes. The performance, and the videotape accompanying the event, offers a rare glimpse of her studio techniques. With this intention, Masik moves into the act of creation and the witnessing of such in an effort to access a rich inner experience translated in her expansive canvases.
For the upcoming traveling painting performance, Beneath the Veil, Masik goes beyond her form of expression to create a dialog of the idea of marriage as a mirage. Her views are exposed in the details throughout the performance, from a reconstructed environment of an outdoor garden wedding, walking down the isle in a wedding dress to wed her canvas, to a series of video projected images serving as a backdrop and canvas, gestures and ceremonial enactments, symbolizing ideals that are often necessary to release, to truly marry another.
Masik's "events" have a romantic, inimitable quality of personal expression that is hard to categorize. She succeeds on several levels: for her intensity and directness, for her emotional orchestration, and for her lyrical pictorial vocabulary of color and gesture. The American critic Clement Greenberg defended abstract painting on the grounds that "art succeeds in being good only when it incorporates the truth about feeling". In Masik's work, the feeling is as visible during the performance as it is in the completed pieces - resulting in an exceptional tour de force.
In 2005, Masik introduced her performance to Europe, as the featured performer at the Spring 2005 Copenhagen Performance Art Festival. From her first museum performance, Masik went on to perform at an exclusive event in Spain. For this performance, projected video images swept across the canvas while she painted over them.
While Masik’s performance work can be experienced exclusively at events, her work is found in private and corporate collections throughout Canada, USA, China and Europe. Masik will present Beneath the Veil when she represents Vancouver at the Florence Biennale in December, 2007.
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