Pam Dixon – It’s Gotta Be Fun!

A curated exhibition featuring the wide-ranging artistic career of Benicia artist Pam Dixon. The exhibition will include paintings, mixed media, and ceramic works, and run concurrently with I Figure: Contemporary Figurative Art.

About the artist: Pam Dixon describes herself as a Bay Area figurative artist whose art developed during the California funk movement. She began her career in free-lance commercial and industrial art, later becoming a serious exhibiting artist in the 1980s. Born in San Francisco, she was raised in Carmel. She moved to Benicia in the 1970s, just as the art scene was beginning to flourish here. A longtime Benicia resident, she founded Gallery 621, a co-op for contemporary artists in Benicia.

Dixon currently shows her artwork at Gallery 621 in Benicia. She has been a guest artist/member at numerous studios, most recently at Happy Life Pottery in Benicia, the Sacramento Art Foundry, the Epperson Gallery in Crockett, Tony Natsoulas’ Sacramento studio, and the Berkeley Pot Studio. She developed the bronze foundry at the Benicia Camel Barns with Jerry Goss. She has been represented by the John Natsoulas Gallery in Davis and the Gregory Ghent Gallery in San Francisco. Her many exhibitions throughout California include retrospectives at the Richmond Art Center and San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art.

“You can’t really pigeon-hole my work, it’s hard to describe. I never know what I am creating until I am already into it.”