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ART MEDIUM:
Acrylic
Oils
Pencil
Watercolor
ARTIST'S STATEMENT:
With a passionate and well-crafted line, Pamela Carvajal Drapala paints faces. She depicts the wholeness of a person's being through a careful study of that person's life, as well as his or her facial features. Her paintings portray a dignified ethnicity in her subjects. Before painting a person, she conducts thorough research into the person's country, customs and costume. Through this investigation she accentuates the individuality and fullness of her subjects. Her portraitures are a collection of multi-cultural identities. At times, however, she works completely from intuition, letting her portraitures take shape from her subconscious. In these instances, her work may resemble old acquaintances or lost loved ones. Since childhood in the Southwest, Drapala has studied painting with a concentration in portraiture. As a constant creative spirit, she also enjoys writing poetry and writes short stories. She currently lives and works in the Southwest, where her work has been
sold at auctions in Arizona as well as in New York. Individuals have commissioned her work across the U.S. Her proudest moment as an artist was selling the Farm Workers' Series I on April 6, 2005 to a local farm owner in the Yuma area.
ARTIST'S BIOGRAPHY:
Pamela Carvajal Drapala - Born and raised in Yuma, Arizona, 1954. Graduated Yuma Union High School '72. Received an AA Degree, Business, Arizona Western College '74. Presently working towards BA in English. Member of Phi Kappa Phi and Sigma Tau Delta. Founder of the Vincent A. Carvajal Art Scholarship Fund for graduating Yuma high school area seniors in 2004.
CURRENT WORK:
Western Portraiture, Mail Order Bride, 24" x 36", Acrylic
Len and Connie Martin attended my exhibit, "A Gathering of Three" at the Yuma Fine Arts Museum in the summer of 2006. Prior to the exhibit, Len had seen the Farm Workers' Series I. He was impressed and within a few weeks of the exhibition, he and his wife asked if I'd paint their portraiture. Surprisely, the three-month process was an adventure. I learned the difference between a portrait and portraiture. I finally discovered that I had my own art technique and style after all of these years. It was there all along I just couldn't see it. I found that my true calling was painting and that I should have been painting a long time ago.All these realizations came to me later in life, but how many of us find what we like and what we do best? When time travels at a fast pace when you are doing something you like, you will know as I did. And, Len and Connie's portraiture; they loved it!
CAREER BACKGROUND:
Education: Three courses until I receive my English Degree from Northern Arizona University, December 2007.
EXHIBITIONS:
Current Exhibitions:
Represented by Benacquista Galleries 2006-2007.
Upcoming Exhibitions:
Represented by Benacquista Galleries 2006-2007.
Past Exhibitions:
Yuma Fine Art Museum Gallery Exhibition, "A Gathering of Three", 2006. Galeria Tonantzin - Las Mujeres Exhibit, San Juan Bautista, California, March 11, 2006. Night of 1,000 Drawings, Artists Space, New York, New York, December 2005. Arizona Western College - On the Border Exhibit - Farm Worker Series - September 2004. Agora Gallery, Soho New York - June through July 2004. Taste of Fine Art Auction - Yuma, Arizona - Donation of Frida at Peace. Hospice Ocean to Ocean Art Show - October 2003 - Donation of The Crossing and African Sunset Tiles.
AWARDS:
Voted Best of Yuma Visual Arts Award, second place, 2005. Honorable Award of Diploma of Excellence Award, London, England, Farm Worker Series, Outstanding Purple Ribbon, Fine Art Competition, Yuma, AZ 2005, Pay Day, Farm Worker Series. Blue Ribbons: Fine Art Competition, Yuma, AZ 2005, Geronimo and Adam, Farm Worker Series. Cash Award Gold Rosette and Purple Rosette, Art Competition, Yuma, AZ 2005. Luz, Farm Worker Series. Purple Ribbon, Art Competition, Yuma, AZ 2005, Jorge, Farm Worker Series. Outstanding Ribbon: Fine Art Competition Yuma, AZ 2004, Yuma Eve, Farm Workers' Series. Grand Champion (Cash Award) and Outstanding 2003: The Weaver, Outstanding, The Green Eyed Girl, 2003 Outstanding: My Daughters and Angel, 1990s. Three Cash Awards for Costume Design - Yuma Country Fair. First Place: Frida at Peace, 2003 First Place: Frustration, 1990s. First Place: Blue Moon, 1990s. Second Place: My Friend Hong, 2003. Second Place: Laura and Ashley, 1980s.
PUBLICATIONS:
Poetry and Paintings: Arizona Colorado Crossing, Poetry: "Shuz Magazine", Poetry: In the Eyes of the Wild, Poetry and short stories: Yuma Daily Sun, currently authoring, "The Fruitful Yuma Valley" and "A Little Bit of Heaven."
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