Pam Shields
STILL Standing – STILL Here speaks to the invisibility of women as they age. It is a self-portrait showing folds of skin and sagging breasts. While I am no longer “young”, I am still here on this planet and I still have things to say. We are losing the very rights we fought so hard to win decades ago. The war on women is STILL alive and well. The struggle for women’s rights must continue. My drawing strikes a pose of defiance. We must never give up. We must continue to speak out for future generations. Don’t Shut Up!
Pam Shields is a figurative artist whose work explores the female body as it actually is, rather than the idealized version perpetuated by culture. She works in charcoal and pen and ink. Her work is based on stop motion photos of herself and on selfies taken by other women. In her One Body series she examined the taboo of female masturbation and in her Project S series, she asked anonymous women in her small town to submit selfies of their own vulvas. Shields then made large charcoal drawings based on these selfies.
Pam Shields has had solo shows at Ceres Gallery in NYC and various galleries in Pennsylvania. She has participated in exhibitions at A.I.R. and Pen & Ink in NYC and with EmPoderArte in Madrid, Spain. Her studio is located in Reading, PA.
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