About:
Pamela Simon is a Santa Monica based artist whose practice includes painting, photography, film, and drawing. She currently creates human-scale, intimate, catalytic color paintings. Inspiration is drawn from the grace and exaltation in dance, the passion and vulnerability in human emotion, and the contemplative expanse of the Pacific Ocean. These expressionistic gestural abstractions move rhythmically, with color, line, and texture ranging from delicate and soft to vigorous and exuberant.
Simon’s childhood was equally divided between Paris and Los Angeles. She began painting at an early age, greatly influenced by Europe’s classical arts and Los Angeles’s contemporary culture. Simon’s focus on painting is evolving from figurative work to energetic gestural abstraction. Her paintings have been exhibited in Arena One Gallery, Artsy, the Other Art Fair, and other various galleries. Simon received her BA from Brown University and studied filmmaking at UCLA.
Contact:
pamelasimonart@gmail.com
Pamela Simon’s studio is located at the Santa Monica Airport Art Studios
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Born in Los Angeles, raised in Paris and Los Angeles
Resident artist, Santa Monica Airport Art Studios
EDUCATION
1994 UCLA Film and Television, ABD MFA
1987 Brown University, BA, French Literature
Rhode Island School of Design, Photo Department
California College of Arts and Crafts, Fine Art
EXHIBITIONS
2024 Glider Mural, Curated by Kris Kuramitsu, Santa Monica, 18th Street Arts Center CA
2024 Whiplash: Art in Ever-Changing Now, curated by Rebecca Youssef and Alexandra Dillon, Propeller Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2023 Art of Water VII, James May Gallery, online exhibition through Artsy
2022 RED, Art Fluent, virtual group show
2020 Las Hijas de los Dias: Postfeminism in the Diaspora. Curated by Begoña Torres and Frida Cano, Propeller Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2020 Drawing Connections, 18th Street Arts Center, Airport Campus, Santa Monica, CA
2020 Airport Art, 18th Street Arts Center, Airport Campus, Santa Monica, CA
2019 Other Art Fair, Solo booth, and inclusion in Drawing Selection, Barker Hangar, Santa Monica, CA
2019 Estimated Time of Arrival, curated by Kristin Zethren, ARENA 1 Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2018 SuperGirls, Marie Baldwin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2018 Points of Departure, Arena 1 Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2017 More Art Here, Santa Monica Art Studios, Santa Monica, CA
2014 MAS Attack 7, curated by Max Presneill and Kio Griffith, Arena 1 Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2007 Tracks, Traces & Folds, 418 Bamboo Lane Gallery, Three person show
COMMUNITY EVENTS
2020 Open Studios, 18th Street Arts Center, Airport Campus, Santa Monica, CA
2010-19 Open Studios, Santa Monica Art Studios, Santa Monica, CA
2010-19 Art Walk, Santa Monica Art Studios, Santa Monica, CA
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Peter Mays, Los Angeles Art Association Volume 5, 2023
Begoña Torres, “Las Hijas de los Dias: Postfeminism in the Diaspora - Pamela Simon-Jensen”, Artist Feature, Youtube 2020
Deborah Lynn Irmas, Artist X Artist, 18th St. Arts Center blog, 2020
Steven Zevitas, Studio Visit Magazine, Juried selection of international visual artists, Volume 43, 2018
RELATED PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
1989-present Board member Norton Simon Museum
1989-present Lucille Ellis Simon Foundation Board member, rotating President
1989-present LACMA Children with Art collaboration and support