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Pamela Levy

Pamela Levy was an American-born Israeli artist and painter known for textile collages and large figurative oil paintings.

1949 to 2004Hand-sewn textile collagesFigurative oil paintings from photographsWoodcuts

Born: 5 June 1949, Fairfield
Died: 25 December 2004, Jerusalem
Occupation: artist, painter

Pamela Levy was born in 1949 in Fairfield

Pamela Denman was born on June 5, 1949, in Fairfield, Iowa. Her daughter Samantha was born in 1967. She earned a B.A. at the University of Northern Iowa.

In 1972 she joined an artists' commune in Santa Fe, New Mexico. In 1976 she converted to Judaism, married psychologist and art critic Itamar Levy, and moved to Israel. Their son Yuval was born that year.

Her early works were hand-sewn textile collages, close to the feminist Pattern and Decoration movement. From the 1980s she painted large figurative oils based on photographs. Her subjects included the First Lebanon War, the Palestinian issue, gender, and women and girls at pools and beaches.

She held solo exhibitions at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art and the Herzliya Museum, and in galleries in Israel, the United States, Germany and Australia. She was also a woodcut artist and illustrated a 1998 book of poems by Dahlia Ravikovitch. She died of cardiac arrest in Jerusalem on December 25, 2004.

Milestones in Pamela Levy's life

1949
Born in Fairfield, Iowa.
1972
Joined an artists' commune in Santa Fe.
1976
Moved to Israel after converting and marrying Itamar Levy.
1980
Received a Guggenheim Fellowship.
1987
Won the Jacques and Eugene O'Hana Prize for a young Israeli artist.
1990
Received the Minister of Education and Culture Prize for Painting and Sculpture.
1994
Held a solo exhibition at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art.
1996
Received a Heitland Foundation grant in Hanover, Germany.
1997
Was artist in residence at the Canberra School of Art.
2004
Died in Jerusalem.