Pamela Smilow

Smilow believes that now, more than ever, people have felt the need to notice joy in their lives.
Smilow, a well-known contemporary artist based in New York City, was immersed in an environment oriented towards art and artistic principles. Her father was Mel Smilow, a mid-twentieth-century furniture designer whose award winning and critically reviewed designs focused on clean lines and beautiful proportions. Growing up in the only fully realized Frank Lloyd Wright community in the U.S., in an environment that was all about the integration of home, furnishings and art, Smilow brings her keen intuition when helping an art collector choose one of her paintings.
Smilow works with a variety of mediums to produce works on paper, collage, and large scale acrylic paintings. Her work is characterized by a vibrant color palette and certain motifs that regularly appear. Typically, Smilow will choose a color family to work with on a given painting, such as a group of analogous pinks, reds and oranges, which will be offset by an underpainting consisting of many layers of complementary colors which add depth and dimension to the surface. Smilow uses recurring images such as houses, dresses, tall trees, circles and birds to convey meaning...

B.A., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Aix-en-Provence, France

2019 Galleri Liisberg, Hundested, Denmark; Henri Heerup Museum, Rødovre, Denmark; The Schoolhouse Gallery, Croton Falls, NY

2017 Scandinavian Heritage Foundation, Portland, OR;

2016 Galeria Krabbe, Malaga, Spain; Museum of Danish America, Elk Horn, IA; Paper Jam, Berkeley, CA; The Hammond Museum, North Salem, New York; Galleri Liisberg, Hundested, Denmark; Valley Variety, Hudson, NY; Private Exhibitions: Austin, TX; Houston, TX

2015 Washington Park Picnic Tables Comission, New York, NY;

2014 Private Exhibitions: Houston, TX; Berkeley, CA; Marin County, CA; Burlingame, CA; Philadelphia, CA; New York, NY

2013 Private Exhibitions: New York, NY; Woodside, CA; Menlo Park, CA; Westport, CT, Los Gatos, CA; Corte Madera, CA; Westport, CT; Upper Saddle River, NJ;

2012 Galleri Liisberg, Hundested, Denmark; Private Exhibitions: Burlingame, CA; New York, NY; Los Gatos, CA; Atherton, CA; Piedmont, CA; Ridgewood, NJ

2011 The Gardener Berkeley, California; Redbird Gallery Berkeley, California; Installation Urban Bistro Restaurant Burlingame, California; Rasmus Gallery, Odense, Denmark; Private Exhibitions: Lafayette, CA; Corte Madera, CA;

2010 Redbird Gallery Berkeley, California; Private Exhibitions: New York, NY...