About the artist:

Founder 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. 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 “Whatever happens between the wall-of-self and the wall-of-paint is the mystery which is worth everything.” - pam dixon, 2012 Recent Exhibitions: Art of a Community, Arts Benicia Gallery, Benicia, CA - Jan 21- March 8, 2015 Common Threads: New/Recent Work by Pam Dixon, Pablo Galvan & Somboun Sayasane Red Dot Gallery, Sacramento, CA - January 7-31, 2015 4th Annual Plate & Totems Invitational at the Blue Line Gallery, Roseville, CA, Oct 17 - Nov 15, 2014 Transmigrational, Benicia Museum of Art Invitational, Gallery 621, Benicia, CA, Oct 16 - Nov 11, 2014 Maskerade 2, Sacramento City College Kondos Gallery, Sacramento, CA - October 2-31, 2014 Art Bra Show, at the Blue Line Gallery, Roseville, CA - September 6 - October 11, 2014 Altered Landscapes, juror Phil Linhares, Arts Benicia Gallery, Benicia, CA - July 17- September 11, 2014 Car Talk at Pence Gallery, Davis, CA, June 13 - August 22, 2014 Transformation at Gallery 621, Benicia, CA, May 1 - June 8, 2014 The 5th Annual Altered Book/Book Arts Exhibition at the Marin MOCA, Novato, CA - May 2014 Plates & Totems Invitational at the Blue Line Gallery, Roseville, CA - May 2013 Myths, Legends, and Prophesies at the Loft Gallery, Sacramento, CA - March 2013 Dixon Revue, solo exhibition at Gallery 621, Benicia, CA, March 21 - May 6, 2013 Pam Dixon, Arts Benicia Presents at the Rellik, solo exhibition, Benicia, CA, March 2 - July 1, 2013 Art of a Community, Arts Benicia Gallery, Benicia, CA - February 2013 Los Angeles Art Association 2012 Open Show, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA, December - Jan 4, 2013 Guest Artist painting with the San Francisco Sinfonietta on the occasion of Arts Benicia’s 25th Anniversary, Benicia, CA - June 8, 2012 This is It! solo exhibition at Gallery 621, Benicia, CA - April 2012 EXCOR: Revival of the Exquisite Corpse: The Art of Chance at Firehouse North, Berkeley, CA - August 2011 Founder’s Show at Gallery 621, Benicia, CA - June 2011 X-Rated Valentine Show: The Great Art Seduction at Skinner Howard, Sacramento, CA - February 2011 Dixon is “... up and running as usual!” Selected Past Exhibitions: San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, Beyond Words - Three, juried by Ruth Braunstein, San Jose, CA Bruce Museum, Women in the American West, Greenwich, CT Richmond Art Center, Un-Still-Lifes: Pami Fat Face and her Friends, retrospective curated by Tomlinson, Richmond, CA Beverly Gordon Gallery, New Distinctions, Dallas, TX Crocker/Kingsley Art Museum, 63rd Annual Invitational, Sacramento, CA Gregory Ghent Gallery, Pam Dixon, San Francisco, CA San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Hosay Portriat, retrospective, San Jose, CA Women's New Museum NYC, 1980's, Museum Store Gracie Mansion NYC,1980's, Museum store Representation: Susan Alexander in the ’70’s, Gregory Ghent Gallery, San Francisco 1982-1987 J’nette Gardens, Janette McKinley, Montclair, 1983-1990 Ernest De Soto Workshop, SF/ Mexico since 1984-1993