Pamela Council

(b.1986 Southampton, New York, lives and works in New York City & Newark, NJ)Pamela Council is a New York-based interdisciplinary artist creating fountains for Black joy. Guided by material, cultural, and metaphysical quests, Council’s practice embodies a darkly humorous, maximalist, and inventive Afro-Americana camp aesthetic called BLAXIDERMY. Through this lens, Council uses sculpture, print, design, architecture, writing, and performance to shed light on under-examined narratives and to make tributes, offerings, and dedications.Council has created commissions, exhibitions, performances, or presentations for the New Museum for Contemporary Art, United States Library of Congress, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Studio Museum in Harlem, Nike, and MoCADA. Council has been Artist-in-Residence at MacDowell Colony, ISCP, Red Bull Arts, Bemis Center, Mass MoCA, and Wassaic Project. A recipient of the Joan Mitchell Painters and Sculptors Grant, Toby Devan Lewis Award, and Newark Creative Catalyst Award as a studio member of Project for Empty Space, Council holds a BA from Williams College and an MFA from Columbia University.Photographer: Alex Webster; alexwebsterphoto.com; @alexwebsterphotoPhoto assistant: Tony D. White; tonydwhite.com; @tonydwhiteStylist: Isaiah Dorty; isaiahdorty.com; @isaiahdortySkirt by: Karmen Jones; Lei’ LaVu DesignsMakeup: Pearl Cyrene; @bypearlc