Pamela Keravuori is an American artist whose mixed-media paintings combine expressive markmaking and controlled but colorful energy to explore visual metaphors from a long, passionate and only sometimes comprehensible life.
With a fluid abstraction, Keravuori allows legibility and ambiguity to teeter across pictorial space. Memories and impressions emerge and coalesce, investigating the contradictions of a peripatetic life through the lens of reflex and recall. These paintings are delicate unhurried responses to a memory, a place, an experience that has become abstract with time but still reveals a story.
Keravuori currently works from her new light-filled studio in the Virginia treetops. Until her last solo show in 1989, she regularly exhibited in the U.S. and Germany. Her Athenaeum solo exhibit in 2020 marked her happily renewed relationship with painting.
Her works are in private and public collections in the US, Germany and France. For information on available pieces or to arrange for a studio visit, please enquire.
SELECT SOLO EXHIBITIONS
Oct - Nov 2020 Painting While Barefoot, The Athenaeum, Alexandria, VA
May - Jun 1989 Pamela Keravuori, The Art League, Torpedo Factory, Alexandria, VA
Feb - Mar 1982 Pamela Keravuori Mischtechniken, Atelier Moering, Wiesbaden, Germany
SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 Not Strictly Painting 14, McLean Project for the Arts, McLean, VA; curator Tim Brown, Director of IA&A at Hillyer
2023 Volume Up: Artists Responding to Music and Sound, The Painting Center, New York City, NY; curator Monica King
2023 Spring to Life, 311 Gallery, Raleigh, NC
2022 You don't remember me but I remember you, Studio 9D, New York City, NY
2022 Body Autonomy, Latela Curatorial, Washington, DC; curator Marta Staudinger
2022 Invasion, IA&A at Hillyer Gallery, Washington DC
2021 Women in the Arts 2021, Latela Curatorial, Washington, DC; curator Marta Staudinger
2021 Garden Party, Latela Curatorial, Washington, DC
2021 All Abstract, 311 Gallery, Raleigh, NC
2020 Moments in Time, Athenaeum Annual Invitational, Alexandria, VA; curator Twig Murray
2019 Board Games, Athenaeum Annual Invitational, Alexandria, VA; curator Twig Murray
1981 Amerikanische Künstler in Berlin (American Artists in Berlin): Lynn Bowers, Jimmy Clark, Pamela Keravuori, John Schuetz, Gary Rieveschl, Christine Viera; group exhibit at Amerika Haus, Berlin; curator J. W. Ludwig
1980 The Swans of Tuonela, Kunstamt Neukölln Rathaus Galerie, Berlin
SELECT FELLOWSHIPS/RESIDENCIES
2023 Vermont Studio Center residency
2022 Painting Marathon, New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture
1976 Rhode Island School of Design, President's Fellow
SELECT PUBLICATIONS
2020 In the Galleries: Pamela Keravuori: Painting While Barefoot, by Mark Jenkins, Washington Post review (https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/museums/art-shows-dc-galleries/2020/11/19/7383102c-2835-11eb-9b14-ad872157ebc9_story.html)
2013 Mastering the Art of French Eating: Lessons in Food and Love from a Year in Paris, by Ann Mah, Penguin Books, cover photo by Pamela Keravuori
1989 Pamela Keravuori at the Torpedo Factory, Washington Post review
1982 Zwei Seiten der Energie: Pamela Keravuori und A.M. Graselli, by Verena Flick, Wiesbadener Kurier, März 1982
1981 Amerikanische Künstler in Berlin (American Artists in Berlin): Lynn Bowers, Jimmy Clark, Pamela Keravuori, John Schuetz, Gary Rieveschl, Christine Viera, by Ludwig, J.W., Berlin, Amerika Haus, exhibition catalog
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
US State Department, Berlin
EDUCATION
Freie Universität Berlin/Boston University, International Relations
Rhode Island School of Design, President's Fellow
American University of Beirut, Fine Arts/Sculpture
University of Kentucky, Behavioral Psychology
University College London
Oxford University, Heinz Scholarship
Universités des Toulouse et Bordeaux
Arcadia University, French Literature