Searching for a LullaBYE

This exhibition is an exploration of feminine signification through personal histories, technology, and fantasy toward the creation of new mythologies and creation stories. Artists Pamela Burris and Roni Nicole Henderson explore the vagaries of life cycles. Burris studies the isolation and loneliness of childhood Using 3-D animation. She mines her memories of childhood trauma, re-framing the narrative as adventure in a developing digital game replete with watch towers, prowling animals and shadowy humans. Images in the exhibition will include digital prints, and 3-D animation.

Henderson rebuilds the creation myth with woman at center, powerful female spirits guiding and protecting a young soul into existence through her film Grace, an urban retelling of a savior’s beginning. For this exhibition she will show three film shorts accompanied by photography. Burris and Henderson each play with themes of memory, desire, personal and public history. Magic realism is at play in the narratives, taking viewers on a journey through interior and exterior vignettes at once real and fantastic.

Henderson Headshot
Roni Nicole makes fiction, fine art, experimental, documentary and with prayer, feature-length narrative films in the very near future. As a photographer, she delights in fashion + fine art, documenting artists and everyday folk, especially during major life initiations. As a fine artist, she projects this work in odd places so as to inject impulses to heal the self into our environment, impulses that inspire change and growth. Having earned an M.F.A. from the Savannah College of Art and Design, Roni Nicole desires to continue her professional work as a fine artist in the gallery, museum and especially the public spheres.

Burris Headshot Pamela Burris was raised in Cedar Falls, Iowa. Growing up in a small city with an abundance of green space and adjacent farm communities provided her with an environment to explore and develop her imagination. As a child she always loved art. With the encouragement and cultivation of her parents, being an artist became her life’s goal. She moved to Washington DC to attend college at Howard University. where she earned a BFA in Experimental Studios, dividing her focus between the disciplines of printmaking, painting, and ceramics. She continued her training at Howard University and completed an MFA in Sculpture. Currently she resides in Washington, D.C. and works as a public school teacher in Prince George’s County, teaching Art and Computer Graphics while continuing to work as an artist.
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