PAMELA BURGESS
Pamela is a visual artist based in Los Angeles whose practice explores the concept, beauty, and meaning of landscape as seen through a personal lens. She uses the details of landscape–plant material, especially California native flora–as a vehicle to express her ideas and concerns.
The fragility of life and the beauty of impermanence are the underlying themes of her work.
Pamela’s 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
RELATED EDUCATION Apprenticeship with a Los Angeles exhibits fabrication shop
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
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Publisher of MoonMails, a free, monthly community eNewsletter dedicated to the Full Moon. In 2024, MoonMails celebrated its 20th Anniversary. Ongoing.
Board of Directors, Theodore Payne Foundation and chair of TPF Arts Council, 2010-2016; Board of Directors, Friends of Elysian Park, 1996-2019; Appointment, City of Los Angeles, Elysian Park Master Plan Oversight Committee, 2007; Appointment, LA City Council District 13 Design Review Committee, Los Angeles, CA, 2013-2015
Panel Member, On Creativity, PAH:FEST Hollywood, Live Webcast, Moderator: Christopher Coppola, Los Angeles City College, Los Angeles, CA, 2008; Co-Chair, Art and Nature Workshop, Los Angeles City Conference V: Global Climate Change, 2008; Presenter, Architecture and Craft in Contemporary Los Angeles, LA Forum for Architecture and Urban Design, Schindler House, 1997; Panel Member, Activist Dialogue on Art, Religion, Native Plants, and Toxic-Free Communities, Econews Cable TV, Los Angeles, CA, 1997