About The Artist

Pamela Laurence has dedicated her life to teaching and inspiring others to becoming their personal best. As President and Founder of Face Your Self®, Inc., Pamela has developed coaching and transformational programs for both businesses and schools throughout the U.S.

Inspired herself by years spent in nature, Pamela created Face Your Self® as a way for people, young and old, to come to know their true nature – joy and happiness.

Pamela’s experience, which includes a BS and MS degree in Education and Instructional Technology, spans over 35 years as a holistic/lifestyle educator in the arts, yogas and feng shui.

Pamela holds certificates in the study of The Science of Mind under Stuart Grayson; hatha yoga with Swami Satchidananda; meditation, self-analysis and the yogas with Rammurti S. Mishra, Gurdjieff work with Andre Enard, and feng shui with Professor Lin Yun.

In 1999, she founded The Mountain Institute of Tribeca, a school offering multi-cultural programs in geomancy, feng shui and healthy living. She is a highly regarded freelance writer for many newspapers and magazines including the New York Post and House Magazine, where her column, Go With the Flow is published bi-monthly.

Pamela is a sculptor and painter whose work is displayed in many private and corporate collections, including the Clinton White House. She currently resides in Vermont and Palm Beach Gardens, Florida where she writes, teaches, consults, paints, plays tennis and sips the nectars of life. With her natural beauty, grace and inner peace she truly is an inspiration to us all.

HISTORY

SOLO EXIBITIONS

  • 2019 Mirabelles, Burlington, VT
  • 2019 Amelia Island Plantation Gallery, FL
  • 1994 African Intent, Center for Successful Living, NY
  • 1993 Nests, Planting Fields Arborieum, NY
  • 1993 Sculpture, Port Jefferson Library, NY
  • 1993 Sculptures in Rattan & Metal, Shelter Rock Library, NY
  • 1993 Basket Sculpture, Garden City Library, NY 1992 Woven Sculpture,s. Huntington Library, NY (curated, Alfred Van Loen)
  • 1991 Wall & Ceiling Sculpture, Sophies Restaurant, St. James, NY
  • 1991 Sculpture , Huntington Township Art League, NY
  • 1990 Sculpture & Wall Hangings, Cadeaux Gallery, Northport, NY
  • 1990 Windows, Made in Europe Project, Huntington, NY

SELECTED GROUP SHOWS

  • 2021 January: BallenIsles Art Show, Palm Beach Gardens, FL
  • 2020 January- February: BallenIsles Country Club Art Show, Palm Beach Gardens, FL
  • 2017-2019 Amelia Island Artists Guild Gallery, Amelia Island, FL
  • 1994 20th Cent. Contemporary Amer. Art, Art Forms , Red Bank, NJ
  • 1994 Progress for Women, Christie’s East, NY, NY
  • 1994 Largely Landscape, Gallery Emanuel, Great Neck, NY
  • 1993 OUTDOOR SCULPTURE ’93 OIA, Ward’s Island, NY, NY
  • 1993 Fabulous Fakes, Goodman Design Gallery, Southampton, NY
  • 1993 New York New Work, Bromfield Gallery, Boston, Mass.
  • 1992 Amos Eno Group, Amos Eno Gallery, Soho , NY
  • 1992 Juried Art, East Islip Arts Council, Oakdale, NY (sculpture award)
  • 1992 2 x 2, Amos Eno Gallery, Soho, NY
  • 1992 The Expert Eye, Sabbeth Art Gallery, Glen Cove, NY (juried by Phyllis Braff & Dr. J.Collisschan)
  • 1992 Panoply of the Arts, Greater Port Jefferson Arts Council (invitation)
  • 1991 8th Annual Juried Art, Arts Council East Islip, NY (Sculpture Ribbon Award)
  • 1991 STAC’S Winner’91, St. James , NY (juried, Bernice Steinbaum)
  • 1990 Multi Media Art Forum & Exhibit, Sands Point Preserve, NY (juried show)
  • 1990 International Group Show, Gelabert Studios, NY
  • 1990 Four Person Show, Ariel Gallery, Soho , NY (juried show)
  • 1990 Convergence ’90, SanJose Convention Center, SanJose, CA (juried show)

SELECTED INSTALLATIONS/COLLECTORS

  • The White House, Wash. D.C., Year of the Craft, Christmas Tree, 1993
  • Bill & Hillary Clinton Private Collection
  • Art Today Magazine, Wichita, KS
  • Dan Klores Associates, New York, NY
  • Loren Michaels, East Hampton, NY
  • Paul Simon Studio, New York, NY
  • Kerry Kennedy & Andrew Cuomo, New York, NY
  • Kiaser Aluminum
  • Decilog Inc. , Melville, NY
  • Davidson’s Aluminum
  • HILTON HOTEL, Woodcliff Lake, NJ
  • Dolmus Design Center, NY, NY
  • Ananda Ashram , Monroe, NY

AWARDS & HONORS

  • 1993 Scholarship, Drew University West African Art in Mali
  • 1993 Special Opporunity Stipend, sos, New York Foundation for the Arts and The East End Arts Council
  • 1992 Sculpture Award, Arts Council of East Islip, NY
  • 1991 Sculpture Award, North Shore Art Guild
  • 1991 Sculpture Award, Gallery North, 26th Annual Art Show
  • 1991 Sculpture Award, Arts Council of East Islip
  • 1990 Sculpture Award of Recognition, Mills Pond House
  • 1990 Mildred Willcuts Award, Washington Square Outdoor Art Exposition
  • 1990 Competition 10, Ariel Gallery, NY

RELATED EXPERIENCE

  • 1992-Chairman, The Huntington Township Art League Village Green Arts Festival (Approx. 200 artists)
  • 1992-Exhibit Chair , LICG, Long Island, NY
  • 1992-1994-Greenwich Village Outdoor Art Show
  • Early 1990’s-East Hampton New York Art Shows
  • 1990-Community Out-Reach Programs:
    • Teach and Lecture – Selected List:
      • AMERICAN CRAFT MUSEUM , Basketry, 1994
      • Yeshiva University Museum, NYC, Ethiopian Coil Baskets
      • Brookfield Craft Center, Conn. , West African Art, 1994
      • FIT –Marketing Your Art
      • ORT – Working with Natural Materials
      • Huntington Historical Society
      • Shoreham-Wading Middle School-Artist in Residence’90
      • Libraries throughout Nassau & Suffolk
      • Bayard Cutting Arboreum
      • Huntington Township Art League
        • Sculpture , Recycled
        • Techniques in West African Art
      • The New York Botanical Gardens
      • Rockland Center for The Arts, Africian Art, 1994
      • Jamaica Arts Center, Jamaica, NY, Africian Art, 1994
      • The Open Center, NY, NY, 1994
  • 1990ーPresent THE PAMELA LAURENCE COLLECTION
    • President: Artist of Functional and Decorative Sculpture and Craft
      Lecture, develop learning programs, exhibits Sell to Architects, Designers, galleries and stores National and International 

      • Including Selected List:
        • The American Craft Museum, NY
        • EXIT ART The First World, Soho, NY
        • Trove Collection, Palm Desert, Calif.
        • Domus Design Center , NY, NY
        • Musart, Port-Au-Prince, Haiti
        • Art-Mine, Toronto, Ontario
        • Bagaille, Chicago, Ill.
        • Wear for Art, NY, NY
      • Trade Shows:
        • ICFF, Javits, NYC 1992-Present
        • The NY International Gift Fair, NY 1990-Present
        • American Craft Council-1990-Present
        • Buyers Markets of American Crafts 1993-Present

BIBLIOGRAPHY

  • 2018 From The Gallery by Barbara Hopkins, South Island Living Magazine, May
  • 1994 ART REVIEW by Helen Harrison, THE NEW YORK TIMES
  • 1993 Letter to the Editor, FYI, Spring Issue
  • 1992 LOST IN WOOD, ART TODAY, Spring Issue
  • 1992 BEAUTIFUL CHAOS, NEWSDAY, April 9th
  • 1991 ART REVIEW by Helen Harrison, THE NEW YORK TIMES, August 18th
  • 1991 BEACHCOMBING FOR HER ART by Eileen Swift, Sunday NEWSDAY, July 14th
  • 1991 HUNTINGTON ARTIST IN SMITHTOWN SHOW, THE LONG ISLANDER, July 18th
  • 1991 AT THE GALLERIES by Sheridan Sansegundo, THE EAST HAMPTON STAR, July 18th
  • 1991 SCULPTURAL OBJECTS, NEWSDAY, December 20th
  • 1989 AROUND TOWN BIRD NESTS FROM OUTTER SPACE, NEWSDAY, December 3RD

EDUCATION

  • 1970 FINCH COLLEGE, ART HISTORY
  • 1971-72 MARYLAND INSTITUTE, FIGURE DRAWING & SCULPTURE
  • 1974 GOUCHER COLLEGE, B.A., Education
  • 1975 TOWSON STATE UNIVERSITY, M.S.
  • 1976 SCULPTURE CENTER, NYC
  • 1977 NEW YORK UNIVERSITY, PHILIP PAVIA, MARBLE SCULPTURE
  • 1986 ST. JOHN’S ISLAND, BASKETWEAVING
  • 1991 STEVE SOLOMON, FIGURE SCULPTURE IN CLAY
  • 1993 DREW UNIVERSITY IN MALI, AFRICA, WEST AFRICAN ART
  • 2000-2001 NEW YORK ACADEMY OF ART, NYC
  • 2004 STUDIED OIL PAINTING WITH JOE ARCHIVITCH, VERMONT