PAMELA BURGESS is a visual artist based in Los Angeles whose practice explores the concept, beauty, and meaning of landscape as seen through a personal lens. Primary focus on California native flora, and related issues affecting horticulture.
The beauty of impermanence is the underlying theme of her work.
Her range of indoor and outdoor installations, drawings, photography, and sculpture reflects a broad professional background in fine art, design, fabrication and materials.
To learn more about Pamela, please click on the link to a 2024 interview with VoyageLA. https://voyagela.com/interview/conversations-with-pamela-burgess
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EDUCATION Carnegie Mellon University, Bachelor of Fine Arts, Graphic Design
AWARDS Metro Art Passageway Gallery at Union Station, Los Angeles; Durfee Foundation ARC Grant; Inaugural Artist-in-Residence, Theodore Payne Foundation; Dorland Fellow, Dorland Mountain Arts Colony
EXHIBITIONS Weisman Museum of Art, Occidental College, Sturt Haaga Gallery, Avenue 50 Studio, LA County Arboretum & Botanic Garden, El Camino College Art Gallery, California Botanic Garden, Bridge Projects Gallery, Arboretum Library, Theodore Payne Foundation, Education Center of Arizona Sonora Desert Museum
COMMUNITY SERVICE Publisher of MoonMails, a free, monthly community eNewsletter dedicated to the Full Moon. MoonMails celebrated its 20th Anniversary in 2024.
Theodore Payne Foundation, Board of Directors and chair of TPF Arts Council 2010-2016; Friends of Elysian Park, Board of Directors 1996-2019; Appointment by the City of Los Angeles to the Elysian Park Master Plan Oversight Committee 2007; Appointment, LA City Council District 13 Design Review Committee, Los Angeles, CA 2013-2015
Co-Chair, Workshop on Art and Nature, Los Angeles City Conference V: Global Climate Change 2008; Panel member, Ecofeminism, The Feminist Magazine, KPFK Radio, Santa Monica, CA, 1997; Invitation to present for groundbreaking series, Architecture and Craft in Contemporary Los Angeles, LA Forum for Architecture and Urban Design, Schindler House 1997