Art Pannonia Gallery
www.artpannonia.org

114 North Main Street
Blacksburg, Virginia 25060
(540) 552 - 0336

Monday – Saturday 11a.m. - 7p.m.
Sunday Noon - 5p.m.

Pam's Work on Display at Huthmaker Violins in Atlanta, GA
September 11-20, 2009
www.huthmakerviolins.com

Dixie Huthmaker, owner of Huthmaker Violins, presents Pam’s work “Dance and Bow” as a gift,
to members of the French Consulate who attended the opening of the event

Article on Pam Sable in Roanoke Times Newspaper
January 15, 2009
http://www.roanoke.com/news/nrv/wb/191130

By Amy Matzke-Fawcett
The Roanoke Times
Thursday, January 15, 2009
Photos by Matt Gentry | The Roanoke Times

Lines Become Art
That's all it takes for Blacksburg artist Pam Sable to create her artwork.


Blacksburg line artist Pam Sable went back to art school in 1993 but didn't become a full-time artist until she moved to Blacksburg three years ago.


One of Pam Sable's line drawings adorns a chair in her home.

Pam Sable displays a carpet she created in her line-drawing style in her Blacksburg home. Sable, who creates images from a single line that curves, weaves and flows, has an exhibit at Art Pannonia on Main Street in downtown Blacksburg.

BLACKSBURG -- A single line becomes a dancing couple, a cello player, a mother and child or an alley of oak trees leading to a plantation house.
Blacksburg artist Pam Sable creates line art, images from a single line that curves, weaves and flows. Most of Sable's drawings are black and white, but a few include bright colors. It depends on the subject.
"Many paintings catch the eye with color, and they're very beautiful," Sable said. "But in black and white, it can be hard, because if you want something to stand out, you have to figure out how [to] use more lines and shading."
Because these paintings are mostly black and white, they stand out against the colored ones, said Judy Garbera, owner of Art Pannonia, where Sable is now showing her work.
"The black and white is very popular because we have so much color," Garbera said. "People like to see the contrast."
This is the third or fourth time Sable has had a show in Art Pannonia, Garbera said.
In high school, Sable studied pottery, dance and music and played the cello. She has said she's always been fascinated with monochrome and line art but didn't start creating it until about 1998. She took it up because it was the easiest way to create and spend time with her children.
"It's easy cleanup," Sable said. "When you have kids, that's important."
She still dances and plays the cello, which inspires her art, she said. Many of her paintings include musicians and dancers.
"Sometimes, I'll play the cello a little, then draw a little," she said. "Then I'll go back and play more. I hope it [her art] gives off the impression of movement."
Sable studied design and worked as an illustrator and in advertising. She didn't think she could make a living as a full-time artist.
"Then I never really thought it was practical to be a fine artist, so I studied design," Sable said.
She went back to art school in 1993 but didn't become a full-time artist until she moved to Blacksburg three years ago. Her husband, Edward, encouraged her to try it.
"When something sells, it's a pleasure," Pam Sable said. "I'm very lucky, very privileged to be able to do this. It's an unusual career."
Sable isn't always able to produce the drawing she wants with one line on the first try.
Sometimes she will start drawing something and realize she would have to use more than one line to complete the drawing. So she traces what she's done so far, plans her next step and starts over.
"I have to plan carefully," she said. "I have to plan a skeleton and plan it in one line."
Sometimes the beginning of her drawings can be hard to find, she said, but the line always ends with her signature.

ART SHOW
December 3, 2008 - February 3, 2009

ART PANNONIA features "Dancing Lines" by artist in residence PAM SABLE. This is the exhibition we have been waiting for two years. The featured artist needs no introduction - she is Blacksburg's beloved graphic designer and freelance illustrator. No other Pannonia artist was commissioned so often (and successfully completed the art pieces) as Pam Sable. Pam is a true Renaissance women: she is an artist, a dancer, plays cello, writes poetry and has a wonderful sense of humor to the delight of her family and friends.

Pam used to swing between Blacksburg and Cherry Hill, NJ. Now, mostly in Virginia, she can devote more time to her art. Pam experiments with silver jewelry, clay figurines, carpets, murals and wire sculptures.

Her pen and ink drawings consist of a single continuous line, challenging the viewer to find the beginning and end. Many groups of people: lovers, family, musicians or dancers jump around and sometimes off the picture, capturing images of tender and humorous moments. Pam expresses with minimum lines a lot of motion and emotion. Each piece is furnished with a clever, poetic title. I bought seven years ago a beautiful picture: "Sugar Magnolia" from Pam's first Pannonia exhibit. It was such a hit in my house, family and friends still rave about it. In fact, one of my sons wants to inherit it. (Not so fast, Andy!)

Pam Sable's exhibition will be between Dec 3 and Feb 4, 2009.

You are cordially invited to a Holiday Open House and Meet the Artist Reception:
Friday, December 5, 2008, 5 - 7pm

In 2007, Sable's work was included in the internet publication
DARK ROASTED BLEND who had this to say about Pam's creative style:

"Music is a perfect match for the expressive line movement...the fluid, whimsical lines of Pam Sable's musicians demonstrate (the spontaneous character of line-drawing). Pam Sable's 'curiously compelling continuous contour drawings' are lively and quite eye-catching."

ART SHOW
November 2004 - January 2005

ART PANNONIA features graphic art by freelance illustrator PAM SABLE. Her pen and ink drawings consist of a single continuous line. Each picture captures images of tender or humorous moments. Any group of people: lovers, family, musicians or dancers jump around and sometimes off the pictures, challenging the viewer to find the beginning and the end. Pam Sable can express with minimum lines a lot of motion and emotion. Her show in May, 2003 was a great success and she is back by popular demand. Pam calls her November, 2004 exhibition: "Brass, Glass, String and Wire"

Art Pannonia Gallery
www.artpannonia.org

ART SHOW    May - June 2003

PAMELA SABLE divides her time between Blacksburg and Cherry Hill, NJ. She graduated in Advertising Design from the College of NJ and studied illustration at the School of Visual Arts in NYC. She has developed a unique way to show movement, shape and texture. Studying her pictures is an experience similar to reading poetry or hearing music. The artist explores the paper or glass with a single line, and it seems she never lifts her pen off the page. Her most essential strokes reflect multiple talents: Pam is not only a terrific graphic artist, freelance illustrator and designer, but also a dancer, musician, (probably a poet) and a woman with a great sense of humor. I enjoy studying her lines; each picture is a challenge to find alpha and omega.

PAM SABLE is an artist with a career worth watching. Those who buy her works today are ultimately smart investors.