Pam Fox

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Pam Fox is a Professor of Fine Arts at Hampden-Sydney College. She holds her B.F.A. and M.F.A. from Virginia Commonwealth University in Communications Arts and Photography respectively. She is the recipient of many awards and honors in the Arts, including two Virginia Commission for the Arts Fellowship Grants, two Virginia Museum Fellowships, and the Theresa Pollack Prize in Photography. Her work is represented in many corporate and museum collections, including the permanent collection of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.

Lives and works in Richmond, VA

EDUCATION
1990
MFA, Photography, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
1980
BFA, Communication Arts, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA

TEACHING
Elliott Professor of Fine Arts, Hampden-Sydney College

SELECT COLLECTIONS
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA

SELECT EXHIBTIONS
2019 View Find 8: A Group Exhibition, Page Bond Gallery, Richmond, VA

AWARDS
2015
18th Annual Theresa Pollak Prize

Photography Virginia Commission for the Arts Fellowship Grant Virginia Museum Fellowship

Statement – Trace series

I am interested in still life imagery that combines the fluidity of drawing and painting with the optical specificity and technical control offered by photography. In this series of images, I am photographing backlit glass and other still life items through printed linen. Lit from behind, the still life casts shadows forward onto the linen. These shadows and the objects behind the loosely woven fabric distort and fuse. Cubist-like, the shapes break down as foreground and background merge. The resulting images are ambiguous, yet “straight” and un-manipulated photographs.