Founder of Gallery 621, a co-op for contemporary artists in Benicia, Pam Dixon began her career in free-lance commercial and industrial art, later becoming a serious exhibiting artist in the 80′s.

Dixon’s checkered life history - a mad-cap mixture of Hollywood, Carmel and San Francisco “contribute to (her) inspired playfulness and sense of poignancy as refreshing as a blast of fresh air,” Mark Van Proyen. Art Week.

Dixon is currently represented by Gallery 621 in Benicia. She was previously represented by the John Natsoulas Gallery in Davis and has also worked on casting at the Sacramento Art Foundry.  She was a member of the Berkeley Pot Studio before joining Jerry Epperson in his ceramics studio in Crockett and recently with Happy Life Pottery in Benicia.

Dixon was guest artist working in the Sacramento studio of Tony Natsoulas from 2013-2014. She was a driving force in bringing an incredible array of ceramic talent to Benicia in Transmigrational: Ceramics from the Corridor, the opening exhibition of the Benicia Museum of Art project in 2014. In 2015 she was also included in the publications Why Make Art by Hedi Desuyo, Kurt Fishback’s 51 Women Artists. Past publications and their companion exhibitions include Excor: Revival of Exquisite Corpse, the Art of Chance by Sherry Parker. Notable exhibitions (from a long list) include two retrospectives: Richmond Art Center, Un-Still-Lifes: Pami Fat Face and her Friends, and San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Hosay Portrait.

Studio: Benicia, California

“Whatever happens between the wall-of-self and the wall-of-paint is the mystery which is worth everything.”

- pam dixon, 2012

contact Pam Dixon at mz.pam@mac.com