The Beauty of Color

Organized by Ilaamen Pelshaw and Pamela Conyers-Hinson
September 9 - October 14, 2022

A photograph of three people adding to a collaborative painting in a gallery space. They stand in front of the canvas with their backs turned to the camera while they add marks to the painting’s evolving imagery.

Image: Debra S. Kaplan

The Beauty of Color, organized by Ilaamen Pelshaw and Pamela Conyers-Hinson, celebrates color as a functional apparatus to build solidarity across the experiences of diaspora and migration. In a considered acknowledgement of the mutual influence Latin American and African American cultures have on one another, The Beauty of Color synthesizes a shared visual lexicon that privileges culturally specific aesthetic traditions over Eurocentric norms.

To mark the opening, visitors were invited to freely contribute to a new painting that carried the exhibition’s spirit of collaboration and shared experience forward. 

Pamela Conyers-Hinson is an award-winning artist.  She holds a Master of Arts in Teaching, master’s in Organizational Leadership, and a Bachelor of Art in Studio Art. She is a classically trained sculptor using the lost wax method for bronze casting and the traditional methods for stone carving. Pamela is interested in sustainability within the arts. This is evident by her use of experimental natural mediums. She received the Council of American Art Society Inc, Award for Excellence in Representational Sculpture. She is a member of the National Association of Women Artist New York Chapter. She has exhibited her artwork in Nebraska, New York, Illinois, Virginia, and Venice, Italy.

Ilaamen Pelshaw is a Guatemalan artist and illustrator with a bachelor’s in graphic design. She is a visual storyteller who explores elements of everyday life colorfully and cheerfully, often focused on kindness and inclusion. Ilaamen has participated in more than 30 exhibitions in Omaha, Lincoln, Sioux City, Los Angeles, Santa Monica, San Diego, and 3 local solo shows. Her art can be found in private collections around Europe, Asia, Africa, and Central America, including the US Ambassador’s residence in Uganda as part of the United States Department of State’s Art in Embassies program. Ilaamen was selected as the Omaha Summer Arts Festival Featured Illustrator for 2 consecutive years, has been featured in Singulart Magazine, Paris, France as  One of 7 Illustrators to Watch, and was one of the winners of the 7 th edition of Latin American Illustration by AI-AP (American Illustration - American Photography).

Amplify’s programming is made possible with support from the Nebraska Arts Council and the Nebraska Cultural Endowment.

 
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