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PAM DOUGLAS : SIGHT

1,586 views · Published 11 October 2017 · 8:01 · Indexed 20 October 2026

Channel: ERIC MINH SWENSON ART FILMS · 2017 · Education

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Los Angeles artist Pam Douglas has been well reviewed in shows including a large installation in the California African American Museum and at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. 

Art critic Shana Nys Dambrot reviewed her 2017 solo show in the Huffington Post: “Pam Douglas is steeped in the magical way assemblage creates meaning. But she also excels at using paint, light, and line to modify and repurpose her finds into thematic compositional elements of powerful abstract narratives.” 

In a Huffington Post review of her 2016 solo, Dambrot wrote: “Pam Douglas has an alchemical gift for transmogrifying materials beyond their conventional aspects in the service of emotionally rich, conceptually profound mixed media works that bridge the divide between gestural abstraction and allegorical narrative.” 

Douglas’ work has been critically acclaimed by Scarlet Cheng, contributor to the Los Angeles Times: “Pam Douglas adeptly combines drawing, painting and assemblage. …Her work so often expresses the universal polarities that define human existence. This cycle is joyful and sublime.”
Art critic James Bae wrote: “These paintings are stunning … never repetitive but endlessly unpredictable… distinct and unfolding their own vigorous abstraction…” 

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