Pamela Staker

Pamela Staker

Chicago, IL, United States

About Pamela Staker

BIOGRAPHY: Pamela Staker is a Chicago-based contemporary artist. She shares her work/live studio with Chukwu, Wyatt, Chi Chi, and Monkey - all rescue animals. Staker received her BFA in painting from the University of Illinois at Urbana / Champaign and has received several grants and awards including an Illinois Arts Council Fellowship and a CAAP Individual Artist Grant from the City of Chicago, Department of Cultural Affairs. WORK STATEMENT: Staker's work has an urban/rural duality strongly influenced by growing up in a small Midwestern town and then transplanting to downtown Chicago directly after art school. She is forever trying to capture fragments of the colors and shapes etched in her memory and mix them with her current observations as a city dweller. Staker's art making process is a performance of sorts – spontaneously choreographed, playful, sensitive, and free-flowing. She allows herself a great deal of freedom in paint handling, creating energy in the works by applying marks quickly and with a confidence that is intuitive and decidedly unfussy. *** View Pamela's complete body of work at www.pamelastaker.com

Education:

1990 BFA in Painting, University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana

AWARDS/GRANTS (SELECTED):
2014 Dave Bown Projects - 7th Semiannual Competition (Curators: Jeremy Adams, CUE Art
Foundation, New York; Janet Dees, SITE Santa Fe; David S. Rubin, San Antonio Museum of
Art) Honorable Mention.
2014 Herradura Art Barrel Project Chicago, 3rd Place
2013 Top Ten Finalist, In Living Color Showdown, Saatchi Online,
Juror Barnaby Furnas
1995 Artists Fellowship, The Illinois Arts Council
1994 CAAP Grant, City of Chicago, Department of Cultural Affairs

Events:

OPEN STUDIO EXHIBITION
New paintings and works on paper from my Haiku Series and more.
June 2-4, 2017

WEEKEND HOURS
Friday, June 2nd: 6-10 p.m.
Saturday, June 3rd: 1-5 p.m.
Sunday, June 4th: 1-5 p.m.
*also open by appointment*

LOCATION
Pamela Staker Studio
1830 S. Canalport Avenue
Chicago, IL 60616
312-925-0989
pamela@pamelastaker.com

Plenty of parking on the street.

Exhibitions:

SOLO EXHIBITIONS (SELECTED):
2016 Moberg Gallery, Des Moines, Iowa
2014 The Orland Park Public Library, Orland Park, Illinois
2013 Fountain Art Fair at Mana Contemporary, Chicago, Illinois
2009 The Showroom, Sera Davis Art Advisory, Nashville, Tennessee
2008 The Showroom, Sera Davis Art Advisory, Nashville, Tennessee
The Artist Project at Artropolis, Chicago, Illinois
2004 Pilsen East Artists' Open Studios (also 2003)
2001 Wakely Gallery, Illinois Wesleyan University, Bloomington, llinois
ARC Gallery, Chicago, Illinois (also 1998, 1997, 1996, 1994)
1999 Southwestern Michigan College, Dowagiac, Michigan
1998 Adrian College, Adrian, MichiganBeverly Arts Center, Chicago, Illinois
1996 "A Room Full of Crutches" - Mabee Gallery, Culver-Stockton College, Canton, Missouri
1995 2nd Street Gallery Charlottesville, Virginia
CIU Art Lounge, University of Illinois at Chicago
Contemporary Art Center, Arlington Heights, Illinois

GROUP EXHIBITIONS (SELECTED):
2016 Detroit Biennale, Museum of New Art|MONA, Armada, Michigan
2016 Tangent Planes, Matthew Rachman Gallery, Chicago, Illinois. Curated by Justine Salva
2015 Large Works Group Exhibition, Moberg Gallery, Des Moines, Iowa
2014 Works on Paper Exhibition, Moberg Gallery, Des Moines, Iowa
Group Show at The Nest Gallery, Des Moines, Iowa
2013 Dock 6 Collective, Chicago, Illinois
“Pamela Staker & CJ Hungerman” Renaissance Blackstone Chicago Hotel, curated by Indiewalls.
“Made in Chicago” The Golden Triangle, Chicago, Illinois
2012 “The Artists Relief Project” Online Exhibition: artistreliefproject.com
“Modmen” Alfred Williams & Company, Nashville, Tennessee
2011 “Double Take” Chicago Art Source Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
2009 From Scratch Chicago Art Source Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
Frozen Emotive - Robert Wayner/Black Walnut Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
2008 In a Nutshell A retrospective of gallery artists, The Showroom, Davis Art Advisory, Nashville, Tennessee
Around the Coyote 2008 Fall Arts Festival - Chicago, Illinois
One by One Lloyd Dobler Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
2000 "Squirrels on Parade" - Rainbo Club, Chicago, Illinois
1999 "Small Works Exhibition" - Fassbender Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
OTHERVILLE" - Work by Emerging Chicago Artists, University Galleries, Illinois State University
1998 Sydney College Gallery, Australia
"Made With Metal" - Elgin Community College, Elgin, Illinois
1997 STEELHEAD gallery, South Bend, Indiana
SPARK gallery, Denver, Colorado
1996 "Contemporary American Sculpture" - Snite Museum of Art, Notre Dame University, Southbend, Indiana
1995 Sioux City Art Center, Sioux City, Iowa
Quincy Art Center, Quincy, Illinois
1994 Viridian Gallery, New York City
University of Wisconsin Memorial Union, Madison Wisconsin
Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, Illinois

COLLECTIONS:
Cascade Hills Country Club, Grand Rapids, MI
Federal Reserve Bank, Chicago, IL
Heidrick & Struggles, Chicago, IL
Insight Behavioral Health Centers, Evanston, Northbrook and Chicago, IL and Cincinnati, OH
Lewis, Rice and Fingersh, Edwardsville, IL
Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals, St. Louis, MO
North American Company, Chicago, IL
Raven Industries, Sioux Falls, SD
Talbott Hotel, Chicago, IL
Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
Winthrop Club Condominiums, Evanston, IL
Numerous Private Collections