Artist Statement

The natural environment is my source of inspiration and material.

Experience on family farms has brought me close to fields and animals and from that experience compelled me to look at nature’s creations. I collect my material from the land. I see them as gifts from nature. I try to respect the environment while foraging for my materials. Paper wasp nests, a material that I frequently use, are collected only after the wasps have died off for the winter.

My aesthetic exploration has evolved from collage on flat surfaces to working on sculptural pieces, musical instruments as pure sculptural form. As a cellist, the violin family of instruments was a form I was drawn to work with. Stringed instruments are visually beautiful to me and my intimate connection with them has inspired me to "play" on them with my gleanings from the earth.

- Pallas

** Pallas Athene is currently represented by The Wit Gallery, Lenox, MA **

Exhibitions

2022-2024 - The WIT Gallery, Lenox, MA 

2022 - Studio Around the Corner, Brewster, NY 

2019 - In Plain Sight, Arts on the Lake (AOTL), Lake Carmel, NY

2018 - The 83rd National Juried Art Exhibition, Cooperstown, NY 

2015-2017 - Her Nature Group Show ‘Four ladies in the Hudson River Valley’ including at The Putnam Arts Council, Mahopac, NY 

2007-2019 -  Member of the Visual Arts Committee Spring and Fall exhibitions at AOTL 

2017- The Bass at the International Society of Bassists Art Exhibition, Ithaca, NY --invited by Arnold Schnitzer  

1988 - White Pond Center, Stormville, NY best in show

Pallas Athene ©2024

Photography by Chris Casaburi