Opening reception: Saturday, January 11th | 4pm–7pm

Anglim Gilbert Gallery is pleased to present Second Nature, an exhibition of new works by Pamela Wilson-Ryckman.

The artist will present a series of large and small paintings, her latest body of work combining elements of abstraction and representation.

Wilson-Ryckman’s oil and watercolor paintings depict hazy apparitions of buildings obscured at times by heavy overgrowth. Working from images of rural Southern churches, her paintings suggest both memory and a burdened history. The structures, whether pristine or in states of disuse, become abstract impressions of their architectural characteristics. Rooftops, church steeples, and outlines of white clapboard siding punctuate rich, encompassing color fields. The works, often intimate in scale, reward close looking and reflection.

While informed by the complexities of the social, political, and historical context of her subject matter, Wilson-Ryckman forgoes didactic specificity to craft open-ended, emotionally charged landscapes. In doing so, her images become receivers for narratives and individual recollections. Structures failing under the weight of accumulated vegetation subtly reference the unfixed nature of memory.

Pamela Wilson-Ryckman holds a BFA from the University of California, Berkeley and an MA in Art History, Theory, and Criticism from the Art Institute of Chicago. She is a recipient of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in Fine Arts and the Eisner Foundation Award and Grant. Her work is in the permanent collections of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, The MacArthur Foundation, the San Francisco Civic Art Collection, and the University of California, San Francisco.