American artist Pamela Keilson received her training in fine art at San Francisco State University where she received her BFA. Later computer and graphic design training at the University of California at Irvine. Born in Pennsylvania, she currently lives in Southern California's Newport Beach.

After graduating she worked for many years in San Francisco as a commercial Interior Designer working for top Architectural firms on Hotel, Restaurant, Hospital and Office Projects and then to Marketing.

"The new technology of the computer and software enables the artist to expand their imagery (to include) anything "scanable", "drawable", and "photographable". Technology allows the artist to rapidly place images in any position - grow or minimize, create large format sizes, and repeat designs an infinite number of times at extraordinary speed of execution

The difference in digital painting and traditional art is in the tools used to create it. Art is not about the tools used to make it; but in the organization of color, line, form, composition, rhythm and the interplay of all these in support of the subject matter or intent of the work itself. These established tenants of visual art are fundamental to all media's, whether computer, oil, acrylic, pastels or watercolor.

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“I like to think that my work is a personal and social commentary on issues facing woman and on our distinctive American culture. It is a visual diary of my life's journey."

My compositions are gathered from my experiences and communicated in my choice of images and my emotional responses to them. Traveling and living in Europe has enabled me to see America through different eyes and more greatly appreciate its idiosyncrasies. My works are composites of real and imagined sources. Usually I construct each composition from various objects or models that I photograph. I add, re-arrange, delete and make-up information; whatever it takes to achieve a strong composition and create a picture which conveys my current and evolving concerns.

INFLUENCES:

I credit Matisse with his use of color and Wayne Thiebaud for composition as my major influences. Also Picasso for his technique of taking one image and experimenting with it in various colors and compositions.
I am inspired by the brilliant colors and intense light and shadows that are typical of Southern France and Southern California.

I am a member of the Artist run Gallery OCCCU (Orange County Center for Contemporary Art) in Santa Ana California; Southern California Artists; and Southern California Woman’s Caucus for Art.

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AWARDS:

Honerable Mention - Texas National 2004, Juried National Competition, Ed Moses Juror, Nacogdoches, Texas - April 2004
Best in Show, Call to Arts: Juried Exhibition, CSU Fullerton, Fullerton, CA - August 2003
First Place, Fantasy,Call to Arts: Juried Exhibition, CSU Fullerton, Fullerton, CA - August 2003

EXHIBITIONS:

LA Call 2004, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA July – Aug 2004

Lost Women of JuarezMary Paxon Gallery, Norwalk, CA - July, 2004

Scene/Unseen, Guggenheim Gallery, Chapman University, Orange, CA University - July 2004

2004 National Competition; Juried Show Juror Tom Lynch; Plano Art Association; Plano Texas- May 2004

Pop Group Show; National Competition, Juried Show Jurors Myra Casis and Meg Sheehy; Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL - April 2004

Texas National 2004; Juried National Competition, Ed Moses Juror; Nacogdoches, Texas - April 2004

Small Works Exhibition; Juried National Competition; Red Dot Fine Art Gallery, Santa Fe New Mexico - April 2004

Puppy Love and Sex Kittens; How Original Art Gallery, Juried Exhibition Laguna Beach, CA - April - May 2004

Centered on the Center; Huntington Beach Art Center, Huntington Beach, California -February 2004

Human; National Juried Exhibition of Imagery Representing Our Multi-Cultural Society;The Illinois Institute of Art, Chicago, Illinois - February 2004

Perceptions: Nine artist exhibition; Orange County Center for Contemporary Art (OCCCU) Santa Ana, CA - December 2003- January 2004

Beneath The Surface: Roots, Dreams Fears, and Fantasies; National Juried Exhibition; Christina Ochoa, Gallery and Visual Arts Director; Avenue 50 Studio Los Angeles - October 2003

Scene/Unseen: National Juried exhibition, Juror Amei Wallach President emeritus of the International Association of Art Critics/USA Runnels Gallery, Eastern New Mexico University,
Portales, New Mexico – November, 2003

Beefcake Cheesecake II; National Juried Exhibition, Juror Jamie Wilson; Orange County Center for Contemporary Art (OCCCU) Santa Ana, CA - September 2003

Fact or Fiction: Southern California Artists Exhibition, Wells Fargo, Laguna Beach, CA - September 200

Call to Arts: Juried Exhibition, CSU Fullerton, Fullerton, CA - August 2003

Beautiful III: Juried exhibition, Period Gallery, Period Gallery, Lincoln, NE - May - June 2003

Artists’ Best: Guggenheim Gallery, Chapman University, Orange, CA - June 2003

Hearts on Ice: Coagula Gallery, Santa Ana, CA - February 2003

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