ARTIST STATEMENT
Currently is a mixed media piece that I made in 2009 as a push back on immigration issues. It is 2025 and this piece is still relevant. My mom and her family came to USA as immigrants and I grew up with her story of travel and assimilation. It was a beautiful story. This piece is a reaction to how unwelcoming America has become. How dark and dangerous the immigration process has become. In 23 years the immigration process has gotten worse. In another 23 years what will the process look like? I hope that the country can celebrate the beauty that immigration brings to the American fabric. I will continue to respond artistically.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Pamela Flynn is a mixed media artist. Her work is founded in social/cultural issues. Flynn holds an MFA from New Jersey City University and is a Professor of Art and Fine Arts Coordinator at Holy Family University, Philadelphia. She is an exhibiting artist at the Ceres Gallery, NYC, and is a member of The Women’s Caucus for Art. Her work has been exhibited nationwide and in South Korea. She is a recipient of the 2006 Puffin Foundation Grant for the project Road Shrines: A Peripheral Blur. Her anti gun violence Project Considering Harm has been exhibited in many cities in the United States. Flynn’s work is a response to living. She gives no answers in her work, she searches for the why.
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