Pamela Goode is a mosaic artist based in Charlotte, North Carolina. As a creator of fine and functional art, installations, and community projects, she works with a variety of materials, including glass, porcelain, stone, and found objects. As owner of Ciel Gallery, she presents juried international exhibitions focusing on mosaic art, as well as offering classes at every level, including intensive workshops with visiting artists. Her work has been selected for inclusion in Mosaic Arts International three times, and has appeared twice in Mosaic Art Now, a publication featuring mosaic art across the globe.
"For me, art is an opportunity to capture a pivotal moment of epiphany that can't be adequately expressed in words. For most of my life I've been a silent observer, and I'm deeply struck by the philosophical implications of everyday events and assumed happenstance. Through art, I hope to capture and momentarily magnify archetypal awakenings that resonate with the human spirit.
I'm drawn to create with mixed materials because I want, above all, to create as large and as full an image as I can manage. I pull from the miscellanea of life -- sometimes messy, sometimes arbitrary, always fascinating, always more cluttered than we had hoped. I don't feel I can fully evoke the "real" without an intense and sometimes slightly wayward compilation. For me, the complexity of a moment spotlights the achingly poignant.
The pruning and fitting together of disparate materials becomes an ordering of my own thoughts, emotions, and priorities, and allows the finished piece to serve as a kind of talisman along the path."
New Orleans; Georgetown, SC; Charlotte, NC GRADUATE OF Duke University BA English, Minor in Comparative Religion STUDENT OF Luciana Notturni, Ravenna, Italy Carolina Zanelli, Spilimbergo, Italy Marziano Verdi, Corsica Helen Bodycomb, Australia Laurel True, Oakland, CA Martin Cheek, UK Sue Gianotti, USA Michele Petno, Orlando, FL Josef Norris, San Francisco, CA EXHIBITIONS Mosaic Arts International 2010 Smith Museum of Stained Glass, Navy Pier Chicago, IL Mosaic Arts International 2009 Museum of Man San Diego, CA Mosaic Arts International 2007 Mesa Contemporary Arts Center Mesa, AZ Ciel Gallery 2008-Present Charlotte, NC The Art Collective 2007 Foust Studio Charlotte, NC COMMUNITY ART Community Mosaic Project 2009 Co-Chair & Technical Advisor Charlotte, NC 200 Square Foot Mural with 300 Volunteers Kefa Coffee Mural 2008 Oakland, CA In conjunction with Laurel True, Institute of Mosaic Art Community Mural 2008 Oakland, CA 2008 In conjunction with Josef Norris, Institute of Mosaic Art Pews on Parade Citywide Exhibition, Artist, 2007 Charlotte, NC PUBLICATIONS Mosaic Art Now, 2010 Breakout! by Britt Hammer-Dijcks, 2010 Mosaic Art Now, 2008 Gallery Guide Art, Mosaic Arts International 2007 Pews on Parade, Invitation Artwork, 2007 Sculptural Pursuit Magazine, Winter 2007 Mosaic Yearbook 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 MEMBER Society of American Mosaic Artists British Association for Modern Mosaic North Carolina Arts Council Arts and Science Council Charlotte Art League OWNER & INSTRUCTOR Ciel Gallery and Mosaic Studio, Charlotte, NC Wild Hair Mosaics, Charlotte, NC CONTACT pamgoode@earthlink.net
