ARTIST
| Chief Executive Officer (CEO) & Founder – Pamella Allen Creative
| O.D.D. Room EXPO JUDGE
Pamella Allen is a Jamaican‑born visual artist whose practice spans more than 35 years. Her mixed‑media paintings, works on paper, and earthworks have been exhibited in traditional galleries and museums as well as non‑traditional settings, including site‑specific public art commissions for healing spaces such as Bellevue Hospital through the HHC Art‑In‑Medicine program, community and learning centers, the ACLU corporate collection, and private collections worldwide.
Allen’s participation in artist residencies has taken her across India, Europe, the UK, and the USA. A largely self‑taught expressionist, her work is layered in process, integrating acrylic, oil, and encaustic painting, printmaking, sculpture, papermaking, collage, installation, photography, video essay, and prose. Through this multi‑genre approach, she has developed her own archetypal language — a universal visual vocabulary inspired by symbolism, indigenous practices, and the mystic of nature.
Her art reflects the diversity of her Jamaican and African heritage and her lived experiences traveling the world and making art over land and sea. In 2018, Allen published The Language of Listening: Image and Prose, which received the AfriCan Authors Award. The second edition, The Infinite Electric, is scheduled for release in 2026.
“My works seek to create a space of activation and connection. Informed by memory, moment, culture, ritual and kinship with our ecoscapes in the cyclical nature of life, death, life.” — Pamella Allen 2025.
Check out this interesting offering from Pamella:
Create and Exhibit a Unique Mixed Media Self-Portrait to tell a story of YOU!! – No experience required to join this creative community! Create & Exhibit A Unique Mixed Media Self Portrait Using Autobiographical Expressionism!
In this series of Virtual Creative Art Sessions, Visual Artist (& Master Teaching Artist) Pamella Allen will share the tools & techniques that she utilizes in her 35+year studio practice to guide you in creating a Unique & Powerful Self Portrait with what she calls Autobiographical Expressionism.
“This is self exploration through arts practice in a Safe Creative Space! Perfect for all amounts of experience from just getting started, to the seasoned artist!
We will touch on the Principles & Elements of Design and Color theory as we explore basic visual arts tools and techniques in printmaking, illustration, painting, and collage; to de-mystery art-making and give participants a safe creative space to reflect on, to process and to express in today’s ever-changing, and at times traumatic world. And as I do in my visual arts practice, we will also incorporate text into the mixed media works by touching on literary elements of the self-portrait in poetry, prose & observational essay with simple sensory prompts (ie: I see, I hear, I touch, I remember, I feel).
