"Marks's works are perplexing, ultimately intriguing statements of a private mythology. They demand a sort of calm devotion." - Kenneth LaFave, Arizona Daily Star, 1984.

Pictured above:
Dazzle Painting #18, 2007
watercolor on paper

?The Dazzle Painting Series combines military camouflage patterns with sacred geometry. Melding these two disparate forms offers unlimited possibilities for combining rich and contrasting visual forms. With military power and religious ideology currently at the crux of many global conflicts, this combination is especially timely. The contrast of the sacred with the profane is apparent but not paramount. Although this series incorporates military and religious cultural symbols, it is not a commentary on either, but an exercise in blending opposites to make something new.?

• Painting
• Drawing
• Color Studies: Theory and Applications

A member of the CC faculty since 1991, Associate Professor Pamela Marks teaches all levels of drawing and painting in addition to a course in color studies that explores the properties of color and color manipulation in our visual world. In 2004 one of the introductory projects from Professor Marks' popular course, Drawing Fundamentals (Art 205), was included in Anna Audette's innovative book, 100 Creative Drawing Ideas.

Professor Marks is also the Gallery Director for the Cummings Arts Center Galleries at Connecticut College.   She curates two exhibitions per year of nationally and internationally known artists. Palmo Quadrado: Brazilian Contemporary Art, Kyoto Today, Hot Wax: the art of encaustic painting, Progressions: Donald Judd, Sol LeWitt, Mario Merz, Anish Kapoor, Tony Cragg, Mel Bochner,   New York Textile Center: 9x9x9 and New York   Center for Book Arts: From the Center are just a few of the exhibitions brought to the college. She also organizes the annual Faculty Exhibition, All Student and Art Minor Exhibition, and the Senior Thesis Exhibition.

Prof. Marks has been a visiting critic at Yale University School of Art and continues to teach at the Pont-Aven School of Art in France during summer terms. "The opportunities to discuss and exchange ideas about teaching with faculty from other institutions has greatly expanded and enriched my approach to teaching. I am more informed as a teacher and, therefore, better prepared to contribute to the arts curriculum at Connecticut College," comments Marks.

"Developing a dialogue with the student, the work, and myself is a collaboration of sorts. The situation fosters a rigorous, working atmosphere for creative investigations that has a unique energy. Teaching is not static (and never, ever dull). It is always individualized and remains a new and exciting process with each student. Teaching students 'to see,' to think critically and to find their authentic voice is most rewarding," comments Professor Marks on her role as a teacher.

As an artist her paintings have been influenced by a long-term interest in nature and symbolic form. Her paintings have been shown in France, Scotland, the Netherlands, Japan, and Greece as well as numerous venues across the United States.

She has been a participant in the Visiting Artist and Scholar Program at the American Academy in Rome in 2006 and a recipient of a Fellowship at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts in 2007. She has also been an artist in residence at the MacDowell Colony, Altos de Chavon, Dominican Republic and in Auvillar, France.

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