Pamela Golden: Charlie Don't Surf

Marlborough Contemporary presents an exhibition of new works by artist Pamela Golden, marking her second solo show with the gallery. Charlie Don’t Surf (11 November – 30 December 2015) explores generational relationships with imagery and visual culture, considering how associations adapt and alter over time. In the exhibition large-scale sumi watercolour and ink works reimagine found photographs and illustrations to embody an interrelation between past and present. Depictions of American soldiers surfing during the Vietnam War, exploration and the prehistoric period provide visual references to the relationships between pleasure and freedom and man versus nature. Through these works Golden explores cultural anxieties in relation to visual culture; by painting the ‘unthinkable’ – be it conflict, apocalypse or a long lost time-period – the artist exposes universal concerns of the human psyche.

Born in Chicago in 1959, Golden has lived and worked in the UK since 1989. She has exhibited extensively for over 20 years throughout Europe and America, including Fondacion Elektra, Paris and Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon.