PAM LONGOBARDI
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
DRAWING, PAINTING, PRINTMAKING
plongobardi@gsu.edu
website: www.pamlongobardi.com

Pam Longobardi joined the School of Art and Design faculty in 1997 as a member of the newly configured Drawing, Painting, and Printmaking Area, where she was Area Head for 1999-2001. She served as the Associate Dean of Fine Arts from 2001-2003.Longobardi has her M.F.A. from Montana State University, 1985, and a B.F.A. from the University of Georgia, 1981. Prior to her move to the School of Art and Design at Georgia State University she taught for ten years at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Longobardi teaches all levels of drawing and painting as well as experimental, multi-media, and collage classes, including providing a formal grounding in the history of the medium, followed by exploration of a broad diversity of materials, a crossing of traditional academic boundaries, and a re-examination of the relationships between art object and audience to include the site-specific. She encourages direct exploration and manipulation of the possibilities that chance, change, and process offer and presents alternative methodologies in order to engage students to formulate their own working method rather than following a prescribed course.

A prolific artist, since 1990, Longobardi has had over 20 solo exhibitions and 52 group exhibitions in galleries and museums in the US and abroad. She describes her own artwork as primarily grounded in painting but moving fluidly between painting and the fabrication of objects to installations. Her paintings are done with patinas, oils, and enamels on copper surfaces, thin sheets that have been drawn into, embossed, riveted and stretched over strainers or wooden forms. She is interested in the naturally occurring processes of the patinas providing a foil to the more subjective act of painting. The paintings and works on paper incorporate phenomenological process such as chemical patination and light-sensitive imaging. Like the paintings, Longobardi1s installations also involve elements of phenomenology. Double/Split, which was shown in two variations in Helsinki, Finland, Bratislava, Slovakia, and three US locations incorporated slide-dissolve projection sequences on two 8 ft. diameter weather balloons. Longobardi in collaboration with Craig Dongoski will exhibit a video and sound installation in Wroclaw, Poland in July 2003, and works on paper in Florence, Italy also in July. A digital version of her 1992 work entitled 31614-1914 (A Disappearance of Wings)2 will be included in the 2004 exhibition 3Birdspace2 at the New Orleans Contemporary Art Center and will travel. Large-scale digital photographs are featured in 3Skin: Contemporary Views of the Body2 with artists Tony Oursler and Rona Pondick at the Jacksonville Museum of Modern Art. Longobardi will also have a solo exhibition of paintings at this museum in 2004. Awards include an artist1s residency fellowship at the Franz Masereel Center in Belgium and a major public art commission for the Fulton County Medical Examiner1s Facility in Atlanta. In 1995 she finished a major commission permanently displayed in the First Tennessee Bank building in downtown Memphis. She was honored with a 1994 Southern Arts Federation Regional NEA Visual Artist Fellowship in Painting, the 1996-97 Tennessee Arts Commission Visual Arts Fellowship, and was chosen in 1996 as Alternate for the SAF/American Academy in Rome Fellowship. In 1994 she was awarded the College of Arts and Sciences Faculty Excellence in Research Prize and in 1997, the Chancellor1s Award for Research and Creative Achievement from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.