February 11 - March 21, 2023

Reception:  Thursday, February 12, 5:30-7:30pm

Gallery Paule Anglim is pleased to present “Berlin Stories” an exhibition of new paintings and watercolors by Pamela Wilson-Ryckman.

The new works on canvas and paper were painted in Berlin and New York over the past year and focus on the buildings of Berlin architect Karl Friedrich Schinkel (1781-1841). Strongly colored abstract shapes float like still-life arrangements through a space that is only partly perspectival. The shapes interact with and reflect the neo-classical structure of the architecture – most distinctly seen in paintings like “Schloss Tegel” where the buildings have become divorced from the background, and appear to exist in and of themselves. In presenting renderings of these monuments while stripping them of their historical context, the paintings suggest an in-between space, creating pressure between abstract form and loaded historical consciousness.

Wilson-Ryckman’s work often draws inspiration from photographs, media images and the urban landscape. Typically employing thin layers of paint in both the mediums of watercolor and oil, the works in this exhibition employ a wide range of techniques shifting from graphic lines and loose color washes to thickly rendered strokes.

Pamela Wilson-Ryckman received her MA from the Art Institute of Chicago and has exhibited internationally.  For fifteen years she has lived and maintained her studio in San Francisco.  Her work was featured in the 2006 Seville Biennial and in 2009 she was the recipient of a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship. She has work in the collection of SFMOMA and has completed a public commission for the San Francisco Arts Commission.

For further information about the exhibition and the artist, please telephone 415.433.2710