Pamela Joseph is a multi-media artist who lives and works in Aspen, Colorado. Her paintings and sculptures address ideas of feminist critique and socio-political issues. Her work was described as "well-executed, powerful and edgy" by the Colorado Council on the Arts, who awarded her a Visual Arts Fellowship in 2001. She was subsequently selected as a Visiting Artist at the American Academy in Rome in 2003 and 2004. Francis M. Naumann Fine Arts in New York City represented Joseph from 2007 until the gallery's closing in 2019. In the fall of 2021 she exhibited bas-relief sculptures of mask/headdresses called Radical Beauty at the Michael Warren Contemporary in Denver. Joseph recently completed a three-year master program at Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Snowmass, CO., with instructors Holly Hughes and Shahzia Sikander.
 
Highlights of her work include The Sideshow of the Absurd a large-scale interactive multi-media contemporary carnival that has travelled to over 10 locations in the country and was most recently on exhibit at the Colorado Springs Arts Center. A short film is available to stream on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OAA15Fx46Q&t=4s.
Also The Censored Series of paintings addresses the obliteration of any nudity by famous artists in art books produced in Iran. Images from "Censored" are featured in The Artist, the Censor and the Nude: A Tale of Morality and Appropriation (DoppelHouse Press, 2017).
 
January 2025