Pamela Levy (1949–2004) was an

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Biography

Pamela Denman (later Levy) was born in

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. She completed her B.A. at the

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. In 1972, she moved to New Mexico and joined an artists commune in Santa Fe. In 1976, she

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to Israel after converting to Judaism and marrying Itamar Levy, a psychologist and art critic. In 2004, Levy died in

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Art career

Levy's early works were hand-sewn textile collages influenced by the feminist

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art movement. From the 1980s, she began to paint large figurative oils based on photographs.

Awards and recognition

In 1980, Levy won a Guggenheim Foundation grant. In 1987, she won the Jacques and Eugene O'Hana Prize for a young Israeli artist, and in 1990, she was awarded the Israel Minister of Education and Culture Prize for Painting and Sculpture. She participated in group exhibitions at the

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, and held solo exhibitions at the Tel Aviv and Herzliya art museums, as well as art galleries in the United States, Germany, Australia and Israel. In 1996 she received a Heitland Foundation Grant, taking her to

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, Germany. The following year she was an Artist in Residence at the Canberra School of Art in Australia.

Solo exhibitions

*1978 Russ Gallery,

Tel Aviv Tel Aviv-Yafo ( he, תֵּל־אָבִיב-יָפוֹ, translit=Tēl-ʾĀvīv-Yāfō ; ar, تَلّ أَبِيب – يَافَا, translit=Tall ʾAbīb-Yāfā, links=no), often referred to as just Tel Aviv, is the most populous city in the G ...

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*1979 Debel Gallery,

, Israel *1981 American Cultural Center, Jerusalem, Israel *1981 Artists' House, Jerusalem, Israel *1981 Alternate Space Gallery,

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*1982 Ahad Ha'am Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel *1985 Aika Brown Gallery, Artists' Studios, Jerusalem, Israel *1987 Gimel Gallery, Jerusalem, Israel *1987 Artifact Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel *1989 Aika Brown Gallery, Artists' Studios, Jerusalem, Israel *1990 Nelly Aman Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel *1994 "Paintings, 1983-1994",

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, Tel Aviv, Israel (catalogueEven, Yael
"Pamela Levy: Paintings 1983-1994 (catalogue review)."
''Woman's Art Journal'', Vol. 18, No. 1 (Spring - Summer, 1997), p. 62-6?) *1995 Galerie im b.i.b.,

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(catalogue) *1995 Galerie Zonig and Mock, Hanover, Germany (catalogue) *1996 Nelly Aman Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel *1996 Kunstverein,

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, Germany *1997 Nelly Aman Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel *1997 "Aquarelle und Olbilder", Kunstverein,

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, Germany *1997 Photospace, Canberra School of Art, ANU,

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*1999 "Paintings: Class Picture", Herzliya Museum of Art,

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, Israel (catalogue) *1999 Nelly Aman Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel *2001 "Paintings", Golconda Fine Art, Tel Aviv, Israel (catalogue) *2002 "Woodcuts", Gallery of the David Yelin Teachers Academy, Jerusalem *2003 "Pamela's Zoo", Golconda Fine Art, Tel Aviv, Israel (catalogue)

Book illustrations

*1998 ''

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: Poems by Media'' by

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, with

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s by Pamela Levy, Even Hoshen,

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References

External links

Pamela Levy on ArtnetPamela Levy at AskArt
(images of 4 paintings)
Pamela Levy at the Hittleman Gallery
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