Pam Douglas

Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA, USA

Artist statement

Pam Douglas is a Los Angeles mixed media artist who creates sculpture, painting and installations that continue her dedication to humanitarian issues. Mostly figurative, her work is an expressionistic naturalism. Her exhibits include the California African American Museum, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles Art Show, and USC Fisher Museum of Art. Recent grants and awards include the Puffin Foundation, Mozaik Philanthropy, Vibrant Cities, Repaint History, The Next Big Thing, and others. Her Sanctuary project presented more than 50 elements and incorporated sculpture, painting, and assemblage. In Part One figures of refugees walk to safety in wall-hung panels. In Part Two simulated 3-dimensional rafts escape across a gallery floor. Part Three are survivors in handmade tents. Her “Sanctuary” installation garnered praise from art critic Genie Davis, published in Art and Cake: “This is a passion project for the artist, and it is a fierce, galvanizing, heartbreaking one … an awe-inspiring experience.” At the close of Sanctuary, she expanded to an artbook/graphic novel, “Bearing Witness,” that tells the stories of refugee families. It is now with a literary agent. Her paintings based on the book have been exhibited at the Ontario Museum of Art, the Human Rights Exhibition at the College of Sequoias, the Irvine Fine Arts Center, Los Angeles Art Association and elsewhere. Next, she created life-size “Witness” sculptures. The 12 Witnesses echo 12 in a jury, 12 apostles,...

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