Pamela Dodds
Artist Statement
Dodds chose Flax paper because it has characteristics so different from any kind of paper she has experienced before. Due to its natural sizing, the paper isn’t porous when dry. It is crisp, crinkly, assertive, resistant. The oil-based ink adopts a similar confidence by sitting sculpturally on the surface.
Dodds’ relief print practice includes linocut, woodcut, printed wood grain and tree bark and imagery of interacting figures, where complex and layered moments are revealed through the nuance and gesture of the human form.
Pamela Dodds, Leap of Faith, relief print on flax paper, 10 x 20 inches, edition of 20
Bio
Pamela Dodds is a visual artist and printmaker. She was born in Halifax, NS, grew up in Toronto and was transplanted to the USA, returning to Canada in 2008. Her work has been exhibited in numerous exhibitions across the USA and Canada. In 2014 she received the Barbara Deming grant for Feminist Art. She has also received support from the Ontario Arts Council, Massachusetts Cultural Council, and Gottlieb Foundation, N.Y. She was 2008 Nick Novak Fellow and 2013 Hexagon Fellow at Open Studio Printmaking Centre, Toronto. Her work has been reviewed in Art New England, Boston Globe, and Globe and Mail, among others, and purchased for public collections including Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio; Purdue University, Illinois; Boston Public Library, Massachusetts; The Japanese Paper Place, Toronto; and is included in the collection of Carleton University and many private collections. She currently lives in Toronto.
