Pamela Caughey Unforeseen
October 7 - December 31, 2023
For Moscow Contemporary’s fourth exhibit we present “Pamela Caughey, Unforeseen.” Hamilton, MT artist Caughey works in diverse media. She creates geometric abstract paintings across separate and overlapping media including encaustic, acrylics, oil, mixed media, and collage. Regular patterns are disrupted by sharp line and color changes to create moments of tension in balance with areas of calm. The exhibit includes more than a dozen large multi-panel pieces and a range of smaller works. Pam has developed a devoted following and online teaching platform during the pandemic. To engage her new students Pam invited them to send her color swatches from their studios. She then created a small piece based on what she received. Not knowing how this would turn out, it has culminated in the group project “Snail Mail” comprised of 150 individual panels.
Pamela Caughey
https://www.pamelacaughey.com/
Pamela Caughey grew up in Wisconsin, where she received her Bachelor of Science degree in Biochemistry from UW-Madison in 1983. After moving with her family to Hamilton, MT in 1986, she began her serious study of art, and in 2010 received her MFA in Painting and Drawing from the University of Montana School of Art. She works in many media, with special interest in cold wax/oil, encaustic, mixed media and acrylic. Her work is in the permanent collection of several museums (Missoula Art Museum, Holter Museum of Art, Nicolaysen Museum of Art) and public buildings nationally and internationally and her work appears in the newly published book by Rebecca Crowell and Jerry McLaughlin, “Cold Wax Medium: Techniques, Concepts, Conversations”. After teaching foundations courses at the University of Montana, Bitterroot College (Hamilton, Montana), she is now a full time studio artist and teaches workshops from her Hamilton, Montana studio, throughout the country and abroad.
