Pam Dixon at Happy Life Pottery
March 5 – June 24, 2025
Jean Purnell, Curator
Happy Life Pottery
632 First Street, Benicia
Wednesday – Saturday: 10am to 6pm
Sunday: 11am to 5pm
About the Artist:
Founder and current member of Gallery 621, a co-op for contemporary artists in Benicia, Pam
Dixon began her career in free-lance commercial and industrial art, later becoming a serious
exhibiting artist in the 80′s.
Dixon’s checkered life history – a mad-cap mixture of Hollywood, Carmel and San Francisco
“contribute to (her) inspired playfulness and sense of poignancy as refreshing as a blast of fresh
air”, Mark Van Proyen. Art Week.
Dixon was guest artist working in the Sacramento studio of Tony Natsoulas from 2013-2014.
She was a driving force in bringing an incredible array of ceramic talent to Benicia in
Transmigrational: Ceramics from the Corridor, the opening exhibition of the Benicia Museum
of Art project in 2014. In 2015 she was also included in the publications Why Make Art by Hedi
Desuyo, Kurt Fishback’s 51 Women Artists. Past publications and their companion exhibitions
include Excor: Revival of Exquisite Corpse, the Art of Chance by Sherry Parker. Notable
exhibitions (from a long list) include two retrospectives: Richmond Art Center, Un-Still-Lifes:
Pami Fat Face and her Friends, and San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Hosay
Portrait.
Studio: Benicia, California
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Artwork: Pam Dixon