Pamela Harris’s drawings are driven by the idea that systems and patterns form the basis of everything, from science and evolution to intellectual and emotional choice. She begins with a single mark, an arced piece of code, that is both organic and manufactured. Following basic architectural/genetic principles of construction (and deconstruction), she builds a drawing by intuitively repeating one mark. The replication creates a system that becomes a macro and a microcosm of the whole. Overlaps, linkages and blends confuse the way space is defined; it’s as if her drawings are describing forms that are in fact absent (Jesse Lambert, curator and writer, from an upcoming exhibition, “Systems Crash”). Close up their lyrical violence pulses with the random order of code, and from a distance their gestural emotion can evoke flesh meeting flesh, life meeting death

Pamela Harris has exhibited widely since 1993, including solo exhibitions at DCKT Contemporary, Linda Kirkland and Clementine Gallery and is now working with Littlejohn Contemporary. The artist has been in numerous group shows and her work has been reviewed extensively by the New York Times, Flash Art International, Newsday and other publications. Her work can be found in many corporate and private collections including General Dynamics, RJ Lee Group, the American embassies in Kabul, Afghanistan, and Sofia, Bulgaria, and John W. Henry, Inc.