Pamela Chipman
Pamela Chipman is a Portland, Oregon based visual artist who explores themes of memory, domesticity, and femininity, through photography, video, installation, and fiber projects. She creates work that speaks to the history, strengths, and struggles of women in our culture. Chipman’s work centers around the female experience, inspired by her own challenges growing up female and as a single mother navigating the changing cultural landscape for women in the 20th century. While her work plays with the multiplicity of femininity, it also examines identity traits of duty, strength, and courage, as well as grace, vulnerability and endurance. Her visual storytelling utilizes photography, video, installation, and fiber arts. She received her BA in psychology from Marylhurst University, she studied photojournalism at Boston University and fine arts at UCLA. Chipman’s work has recently been featured in exhibits at The Pacific Northwest Drawers at Blue Sky Gallery, Portland OR, Imogen Gallery, Astoria, OR, The Walters Cultural Arts Center, Hillsboro OR, Vashon Center for the Arts, Vashon WA, and the Art at the Cave Gallery, Vancouver WA, where her photo based installations Inner Voices and Threads debuted in 2019. Chipman’s photographs are in permanent collections at the Portland Museum of Art and The Portland Visual Chronicle. Her innovative video books, which utilize a creative approach to QR code technology, are held at the UCLA Library and the UC Santa Cruz Library. Her video work has been exhibited internationally in galleries at film festivals, and on television. Jumptown, her multichannel video piece, is permanently installed on an exterior wall in Portland Oregon. Additionally she created and curates the PDX Red Wall Project, an exterior public exhibition space with monthly changing exhibits; she has received funding through a RACC grant.