Artist Statement: My work is about light, space and movement, a dance of colors that glow and mysteriously merge, luminescent in a silent space, transcending the limits of their original hues. It's an instant in time caught with a click.
When I aim my camera, it's fast and furious. I enter a zone where the work takes on a
life of its own. I am merely a vessel. Chasing images and holding my breath as I trick
the shutter speed and snap away, mystified by the process and the images that evolve.
As I watch my work grow and morph, I find that the journey is all about color, light and
imagination. The harmony of linear lines and the thrill of abstraction. The work becomes
its own kind of storytelling. That's where the magic happens, ever evolving, with a
landscape that is vast and limitless.
Pamela Beck is a writer/producer whose novels include the New York Times best sellers Fling and Rich Men, Single Women. She has written screenplays as well as novels and has developed/produced various film and television projects, including the adaptation of one of her novels, Rich Men, Single Women for Aaron Spelling and ABC.
Beck's shift into working as a visual artist taps into her lifelong love of contemporary art, a passion for color, and the joy (and challenge) of creating. Her art practice is concerned with pushing the limits of abstraction; elegant, powerful, eye-popping, and optimistic - distinctive at every turn. Through several series, she's striven to capture light and motion.
Following a successful career as a novelist, Beck approaches making art with the same interest in narrative that drove her forward in her former career, only she does it through visual means rather than words. What look like formalist abstractions are much more. Beck is interested in exploring concepts of the unseen. She makes visible that which you cannot see - time and space, and motion becomes palpable in Beck's ever-changing vocabulary of color and geometry.
Beck's works may look like paintings, with their velvety surfaces, but they're photos. Beck is secretive about her techniques, but she centers her work around photos she takes with an ingenious framing apparatus she's created and assembled and a system of changing lights. Beck is like Edward Steichen, who waited patiently in the snow for hours for the right moment of light for his famous photo of the Flat Iron building. She does the same, often staying up into the small hours of the night waiting for the right moment to take the photo.
Pamela has had various works selected for multiple online exhibitions as well as in-person group shows. Her work is part of some very substantial collections.