PAMELA BURGESS
I am a visual artist based in Los Angeles whose practice explores the concept, beauty, and meaning of landscape as seen through a personal lens. My focus is on California native flora and related issues affecting horticulture.
The beauty of impermanence is the underlying theme of my work.
I produce a range of indoor and outdoor installations, drawings, photography, and sculpture that reflects a broad professional background in fine art, design, fabrication and materials.
To learn more, 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
COMMUNITY SERVICE
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