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By ANN BROWN
Rappahannock New* Contributiiif Writer
Middle Street Gallery is the site for a one-person show by Pam Woods of Farmville and a group show on the theme of water.
The current exhibition is Woods’ first solo show. Although she is known for her delicately-colored and humorous collages (there are two on view in the group show), her new work stretches into untraveled waters. She has created a series of stark black and white drawings with hints of color that mix tight renderings of fish imagery with loose Itrokes and dramatic shapes in charcoal. Two pink flamingos also make an appearance.
Her pictures are frightening and funny, serious and exuberant, shy and bold. The work has a distinct intelligence.
The artist’s statement reads: “Pam Woods is a slow moving artist whose motivations include entropy, irony, images of fish and reptiles and places where she won’t live (like in the mud and dark murky water). These are some of the positive and negative spaces she uses to construct little truths that maybe you won’t immediately see in life.”
Three outstanding pieces include “The Persistence of Memory” - an image of a shark in the dark that calls up primal fear, “Eight Tools and a Robe” - a luminous octopus swarming about in spontaneous ink whose title pays homage to artist Jim Dine, and “The Jubilant Fish” - a transparent fish out of water, flying, while a school of rubberstamped, golden-eyed compatriots swim in the other direction in the
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