Mixed-Media Works on Paper
by Pamela Lanza and
Ellie Barrett Wilder

Sponsored by the
Expressive Arts Therapy Program at CIIS

Exhibit Dates: March 5 – April 27
CIIS Main Building, Third Floor

Reception and Slide Presentation
Friday, March 9, 7–9pm
CIIS Main Building, Namaste Hall

Pamela Lanza, MFA, has exhibited her work locally and nationally (Stanford University Arts Center, Works Gallery in San Jose, University of Alaska). A faculty member at San Francisco Art Institute and UC Berkeley Extension, Lanza applies
figures that appear to arise from a murky darkness, a miasmic underworld, yet the images simultaneously illustrate an embodiment of purity. Such artistic duality projects an elevated spiritual quest allowing the viewer to hover face to face with the so-called implications of a civilization’s ruins. Fashioned in detailed ink line over wash and acrylic on paper (some contain collaged elements), Lanza captures the foreboding desolate images of a transient wasteland, yet she also provides a harbinger of the triumphant human spirit.

Ellie Barrett Wilder is a published mixed-media artist who studied at Indiana University and has since exhibited throughout the United States, including many reputable galleries in the Bay Area. San Francisco’s Linden Hayes Gallery exhibited her series, “The Decline of the Great Society,” in 2003, followed by an exhibition at Chautauqua Institution in 2004. Wilder’s elaborately collaged and painted snapshots of the collective unconscious unveil today’s socio-political extremes. Wilder executes wit and grace in her depiction of mass destruction and decline, while simultaneously implying the possibility of transcendence that pulls for the evolution of human culture.

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