Short Bio
Pamela Kogen is a mixed media artist working out of a studio in the Marinship section of Sausalito.
Statement
Living by the bay and sailing year round in this magnificent landscape, is a deep influence on my work. The grandeur of the Headlands, being buffeted by the always evolving weather and wind, is a humbling reminder of my powerlessness and the constancy of change. My work seeks to capture, abstractly, the shifts I observe and sense. I often incorporate textiles into drawings and paintings for their history and cultural reference. I’m drawn to “working” textiles and most recently have been up-cycling “dead” sails in my work- an attempt to find utility in the piles of unwanted sails lying in sail lofts and boat yards in the neighborhood around my studio. These panels feature Ticking fabric- historically used to cover pillows and mattresses, as well as sections of discarded, well used Dacron sail material. Wavering line, shifting planes, this series of abstract panels is a reflection of our watery landscape.
Biography
Pamela Kogen has moved between careers in fine art to fashion— as a wardrobe and prop stylist for advertising and editorial media, to illustration— drawing for books, editorials, and advertising, and back to fine art. Her illustrations appeared in publications such as The New York Times Magazine, Mademoiselle and Forbes, as well as for MoMa(NYC), and advertising for Barneys NY, Estée Lauder and Liz Claiborne, amongst many. Pamela’s art work appears consistently in Bay Area shows. She is a featured artist in the 2022 publication ‘Artists of the Bay Area – Volume ll’, curated by Jen Tough Gallery, as well as ‘American Artwork 2023’ .
