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.
The fragility of life and the beauty of impermanence–the sacred in nature–are the underlying themes of her work.
A broad background in art, design, and fabrication enables her to realize her ideas in various media at scale.
For more information on Pamela’s story, 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, Los Angeles exhibit fabrication shop
AWARDS Metro Art Passageway Gallery at Union Station, Los Angeles, 2025; Durfee Foundation ARC Grant, Los Angeles, 2010; Inaugural Artist-in-Residence, Theodore Payne Foundation, Sun Valley, CA, 2008; Dorland Fellow, Dorland Mountain Arts Colony, Temecula, CA, 1987
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
COMMISSIONS Radiant Light, outdoor sculpture exhibition, California Botanic Garden, Claremont, CA, 2010; 17′ stainless steel outdoor sculpture, The Los Angeles Mission (for the unhoused), Downtown Los Angeles, 1991; Private commissions for one-of-a-kind dining tables, 1989-1999
COMMUNITY SERVICE
Board of Directors, Theodore Payne Foundation, chair of TPF Arts Council, Sun Valley, CA, 2010-2016; Board of Directors, Friends of Elysian Park, Los Angeles, 1996-2019; Appointment, City of Los Angeles, Elysian Park Master Plan Oversight Committee, 2007; Co-Chair, Art & Nature Workshop, Re-Enchanting The City Conference V: Global Climate Change, Los Angeles, CA, 2008; Invitational Presenter, Architecture and Craft in Contemporary Los Angeles, LA Forum for Architecture and Urban Design, Schindler House, 1997
Publisher of MoonMails, a free monthly eNewsletter dedicated to the Full Moon, from 2004