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The Naturalist’s Desk: Landscapes through a personal lens

January 20, 2018 by Tania Marien

© Pamela Burgess, all rights reserved
Mountain Aloe (Aloe marlothii), B&W photograph with digital color added, limited edition, museum-quality pigment print, 10 x 7.5 inches

the naturalist’s desk:
language + landscape

Los Angeles County Arboretum
& Botanic Garden
Arcadia, CA
January 27 – June 23, 2018

Pamela Burgess explores the concept and meaning of landscape through art and text in the naturalist’s desk: language + landscape, a one-person exhibition opening next weekend at the Los Angeles County Arboretum & Botanic Garden.

Installed throughout the Arboretum Library, the show features work in various media including drawings and poetry, sculpture and photography, selections from the Library’s collection of botanical books, and artwork based on specimens found in the Garden. Together, the library and the exhibition are presented as an oversized cabinet of curiosities adorned with books, drawings, and strange unidentified roots. A map and self-guided tour of the installation will be available for visitors.

Arboretum guests are encouraged to make repeat visits to this exhibition as additional works will be added throughout its six-month run. Meet Pamela and explore the recently renovated Arboretum Library during the opening reception on Saturday, January 27 (2:00-4:30 p.m). An Artist’s Talk will begin at 3:00 p.m.

The Los Angeles County Arboretum & Botanic Garden is located at 301 North Baldwin Avenue, Arcadia, CA 91007 (map).


About Pamela Burgess

Pamela Burgess is a contemporary Los Angeles artist whose work is motivated by a fascination with nature and its materials, and a reverence for craftsmanship.

Awards include a Durfee Foundation ARC grant and first Artist-in-Residence of Theodore Payne Foundation. Exhibitions include the Sturt Haaga Gallery at Descanso Gardens, Occidental College, Los Angeles County Arboretum and Botanic Garden, Avenue 50 Studio, and Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden.

Community environmental work includes board member of the Citizens Committee to Save Elysian Park (from 1997), board member of the Theodore Payne Foundation for Wild Flowers and Native Plants and chair of its Arts Council (2010-2016), member of the 2007 City of Los Angeles Elysian Park Master Plan Oversight Committee.

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