ABOUT
Pamela Fedderson is a multimedia artist living in Washington State. Her work is best known for mixing mediums and dancing between realism and surrealism. Her most recent works focus on the intricacies and fluidity of nature and anatomy, touching on themes of metamorphosis, duality, and our individual perception of reality.
Pamela’s creative roots stem from her childhood in a small town in Wisconsin where her imagination was nurtured from a young age. Her parents' involvement in regional theater combined with her visits to the annual circus, introduced her to the transformative power of scenery and costumes in storytelling and inspired her to spend hours building puppets and props out of everyday objects. Pamela spent most of her days outdoors, observing the details of insects and flowers, and letting her imagination roam free as she created her own make-believe worlds. These experiences can be seen in the wide range of mediums Pamela has worked in including set design, sculpture, textiles, and fine art.
Pamela earned a master of fine arts from UCLA. Her work has been featured in numerous publications and exhibited at art galleries across New York, Nashville, and Los Angeles. Her anthropomorphic sculptures were featured on the Skyboat album cover for Mac Gayden and showcased in all eight store-front windows of Neiman Marcus on Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles, California. Pamela also taught art at the Ensworth Academy, the Cheekwood Museum in Nashville Tennessee, and the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena California.
ARTIST STATEMENT
Throughout my youth, I would wake up in the middle of the night and spend hours pouring over our family’s Encyclopedia Britannica, gazing at the glossy color inserts protected by a layer of tissue paper. I was fascinated by the varieties of flora and fauna, and the detailed drawings of living internal organs.
All those memories cycle back in the series of artworks I’m now creating. My work explores the duality of the human body and other natural forms. It creates a narrative between beauty and resilience vs the decaying and ugly. I’m fascinated by the contrast between planned order and improvisation with random psychic automatism.