Pamela Levy
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Pamela Levy was an Israeli artist
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Pamela Levy was born in Fairfield, Iowa
. She completed a B.A. at the University of Northern Iowa
(1972).
In 1976 she immigrated to Israel where she started exhibiting her work in solo shows soon after. She received a Guggenheim Foundation
grant (1980), the Jacques and Eugene O'Hana Prize for a young Israeli artist (1987) and the 1990 Israel Minister of Education and Culture Prize for Painting and Sculpture. She participated in group exhibitions at such venues as the Israel Museum
in Jerusalem and held solo exhibitions at the Tel Aviv and Herzliyya art museums and art galleries in the United States, Germany, Australia and throughout Israel.
In 1996 she received a Heitland Foundation Grant, taking her to Hanover
, Germany. In the subsequent year she was an Artist in Residence at the Canberra School of Art in Australia.
Levy died in 2004 in Jerusalem of heart failure.
Artist
An artist is a person engaged in one or more of any of a broad spectrum of activities related to creating art, practicing the arts and/or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse is a practitioner in the visual arts only...
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Pamela Levy was born in Fairfield, Iowa
Fairfield, Iowa
Fairfield is a city and the county seat of Jefferson County, Iowa, United States. The population was 9,464 in the 2010 census, a decline from 9,509 in the 2000 census. - History :...
. She completed a B.A. at the University of Northern Iowa
University of Northern Iowa
The University of Northern Iowa is a college located in Cedar Falls, Iowa, United States. UNI offers more than 120 majors across the colleges of Business Administration, Education, Humanities and Fine Arts, Natural Sciences, and Social and Behavioral sciences, and graduate college.UNI has...
(1972).
In 1976 she immigrated to Israel where she started exhibiting her work in solo shows soon after. She received a Guggenheim Foundation
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation was founded in 1925 by Mr. and Mrs. Simon Guggenheim in memory of their son, who died April 26, 1922...
grant (1980), the Jacques and Eugene O'Hana Prize for a young Israeli artist (1987) and the 1990 Israel Minister of Education and Culture Prize for Painting and Sculpture. She participated in group exhibitions at such venues as the Israel Museum
Israel Museum
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem was founded in 1965 as Israel's national museum. It is situated on a hill in the Givat Ram neighborhood of Jerusalem, near the Bible Lands Museum, the Knesset, the Israeli Supreme Court, and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem....
in Jerusalem and held solo exhibitions at the Tel Aviv and Herzliyya art museums and art galleries in the United States, Germany, Australia and throughout Israel.
In 1996 she received a Heitland Foundation Grant, taking her to Hanover
Hanover
Hanover or Hannover, on the river Leine, is the capital of the federal state of Lower Saxony , Germany and was once by personal union the family seat of the Hanoverian Kings of Great Britain, under their title as the dukes of Brunswick-Lüneburg...
, Germany. In the subsequent year she was an Artist in Residence at the Canberra School of Art in Australia.
Levy died in 2004 in Jerusalem of heart failure.
Solo exhibitions
- 1978 Russ Gallery, Tel AvivTel AvivTel Aviv , officially Tel Aviv-Yafo , is the second most populous city in Israel, with a population of 404,400 on a land area of . The city is located on the Israeli Mediterranean coastline in west-central Israel. It is the largest and most populous city in the metropolitan area of Gush Dan, with...
, IsraelIsraelThe State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea... - 1979 Debel Gallery, Jerusalem, Israel
- 1981 American Cultural Center, USIS, Jerusalem, Israel
- 1981 Artists' House, Jerusalem, Israel
- 1981 Alternate Space Gallery, New YorkNew YorkNew York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...
, United StatesUnited StatesThe United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district... - 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", Tel Aviv Museum of ArtTel Aviv Museum of ArtThe Tel Aviv Museum of Art is an art museum in Tel Aviv, Israel. It was established in 1932 in a building that was the home of Tel Aviv's first mayor, Meir Dizengoff. The Helena Rubinstein Pavilion for Contemporary Art opened in 1959. The museum moved to its current location on King Saul Avenue in...
, Tel Aviv, Israel (catalogue) - 1995 Galerie im b.i.b., HanoverHanoverHanover or Hannover, on the river Leine, is the capital of the federal state of Lower Saxony , Germany and was once by personal union the family seat of the Hanoverian Kings of Great Britain, under their title as the dukes of Brunswick-Lüneburg...
, GermanyGermanyGermany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
(catalogue) - 1995 Galerie Zonig and Mock, Hanover, Germany (catalogue)
- 1996 Nelly Aman Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
- 1996 Kunstverein, HolzmindenHolzmindenHolzminden is a town in southern Lower Saxony, Germany. It is the capital of the district of Holzminden. It is located directly on the river Weser, which here is the border to North Rhine-Westphalia.-History:...
, Germany - 1997 Nelly Aman Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
- 1997 "Aquarelle und Olbilder", Kunstverein, GifhornGifhornGifhorn is a town and capital of the district Gifhorn in the east of Lower Saxony, Germany. It has a population of about 42,000 and is mainly influenced by the small distance to the industrial and commercially important cities nearby, Brunswick and Wolfsburg...
, Germany - 1997 Photospace, Canberra School of Art, ANU, CanberraCanberraCanberra is the capital city of Australia. With a population of over 345,000, it is Australia's largest inland city and the eighth-largest city overall. The city is located at the northern end of the Australian Capital Territory , south-west of Sydney, and north-east of Melbourne...
, AustraliaAustraliaAustralia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area... - 1999 "Paintings: Class Picture", Herzliya Museum of Art, HerzliyaHerzliyaHerzliya is a city in the central coast of Israel, at the western part of the Tel Aviv District. It has a population of 87,000 residents. Named after Theodor Herzl, the founder of modern Zionism, Herzliya covers an area of 26 km²...
, 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)
Illustrations
- 1998 MonsoonMonsoonMonsoon is traditionally defined as a seasonal reversing wind accompanied by corresponding changes in precipitation, but is now used to describe seasonal changes in atmospheric circulation and precipitation associated with the asymmetric heating of land and sea...
: Poems by Media by Dahlia RavikovitchDahlia Ravikovitch-Biography:Ravikovitch was born in Ramat Gan on November 27, 1936. She learned to read and write at the age of three. Her father, Levi, was a Russian-born Jewish engineer who arrived in the British Mandate of Palestine from China. Her mother, Michal, was a teacher who came from a religious...
, with woodcutWoodcutWoodcut—occasionally known as xylography—is a relief printing artistic technique in printmaking in which an image is carved into the surface of a block of wood, with the printing parts remaining level with the surface while the non-printing parts are removed, typically with gouges...
s by Pamela Levy, Even Hoshen, Ra'ananaRa'ananaRa'anana is a city in the heart of the southern Sharon Plain of the Central District of Israel with a population of 68,300, . Ra'anana is bordered by Kfar Sava on the east and Herzliya on the southwest...
External links
- Pamela Levy on Artnet
- Pamela Levy at AskArt (images of 4 paintings)
- Pamela Levy at the Hittleman Gallery (404 as of 30 December 2007; last archived successfully 7 June 2007)