About the Artist
Painting with Purpose
Pamela Lofgren-Wilde is a native of Chicago but has resided in Maryland for nearly thirty years. Pamela received her formal training at the Chicago-based American Academy of Art and graduated with a degree in Advertising Design and Illustration. Her early career was spent in Tacoma, Washington where she worked for the Tacoma News Tribune from 1984 to 1989. While employed with the Tacoma News Tribune she worked extensively in advertising design and editorial illustration creating original art for weekly publication.
Evolving as a portrait artist she studied intensively through adult continued education, mentorship and independent study.
Working in oils and from direct observation her subject matter is varied. Pamela’s true passion lies in the many and varied challenges presented by the portrait, figure and plein-air landscape.
Pamela recently completed a one-year community portrait project. Portraits from Havre de Grace culminated in a solo exhibition of 120 paintings that where created in a live three-hour Alla-Prima session. Exhibited at Artists Emporium March – April 2019 and later at the World Trade Center Baltimore May – June 2019.
Pamela Lofgren-Wilde is available for commissioned work and enjoys working with clients to produce one of a kind works.
Curated Group Shows:
“Art From the Soldier” exhibited @
Sept 2024 The Queue , York PA
Gallery 220 HDG Maryland Oct -Dec 8 2024
The Yumi Hogan Art Gallery @ Baltimore International Airport Jan. 15, 2025- May 31 2025
Education:
American Academy of Art class of 1983 • Advertising and Design
Maryland Institute of Art • Life Drawing 1993
Maryland Institute College of Art • Computer skills for the Design Professional 1995
Harford Community College * Oil painting with Mellissa Shatto 1996
Pierce Community College Tacoma, WA • Oil painting William Raddis 1985
Mentorship: Judith Simons MFA MICA
Professional study with Michael Shane Neal, President of the Portrait Society of America 2021, 2025
Professional study with Rose Frantzen 2017
Professional memberships:
Maryland Society of Portrait Painters, Accredited Member and Board Member
Portrait Society of America
Harford County Artist Association
Mid Atlantic Plein Air Society
Current Juried Plein Air Events:
Paint it Ellicott City; 2019
Maryland Center for the Arts, Harford Plein Air: 2017, 2019
Recent Awards:
2024 Howard County Open devision Plein Air Event. 2nd Place
2023 Harford 250 Celebration sponsored by the Maryland Center for the Arts - 2nd Place
Howard County Arts Maryland 2022 - Honorable Mention
Abingdon Virginia Plein Air 2022 - Honorable Mention
Maryland Center for the Arts Harford Plein Air 2022 - juried artist - Awarded Best Nocturne and Honorable Mention Quick Draw
Artists Emporium Summer Plein Air Show 2022 - First Place
Awarded NSDAR Woman in the Arts Award 2022
1st Pace Visionary Woman 2020 Columbia Art Center
1st Place oils 2017 Harford Artist Association, Pictures at an Exhibition 2017
1st Place Bethany Beach Plein Air 2016
3rd Place Ellicott City Plein Air Open Quick Draw 2017
Honorable Mention Harford Plein Air 2017 Open Quick Draw
Exhibitions, Plein Air Events, Public Art
Columbia Arts Center, Visionary Woman 2023 - invitational
Howard County Arts Marylands 2022
Columbia Art Center, Visionary Woman 2022 - invitational
Maryland Federation of Art, Juried member Show 2022
Lore Degenstein12th Annual Figurative Drawing & Painting Exhibition 2021- juried artist
The Delaplaine 2021 National Juried Exhibition - juried artist
Maryland Federation of Art "Small Wonders" 2021 - juried artist
Maryland Federation of Art "Stroke of Genius 2019 & 2021" - juried artis
Maryland federation of Art member show 2021 - juried artist
Liriodendron 2021 - invited artist
Harford Plein Air 2019 juried artist
Paint Berlin Maryland 2019 participating artist
Paint It; Ellicott City Plein Air 2019 juried artist
Solo Exhibition: Portraits from Havre de Grace,
Baltimore World Trade Center- May 2019
Solo Exhibition: Portraits from Havre de Grace,
Artists Emporium Havre de Grace-MD March 2019
Full Heart Gallery, Bel Air MD. Solo Exhibition 2016
Paint Annapolis Paint Out @ London Gardens 2016
Dorchester County Centers for The Arts, Plein Air Event 2016
The Schuler School of Art, Baltimore MD. Fur to Feathers 2016
Harford County Library, Weather Naturally (juried) photography 2016
Rockfield Manor Bel Air MD; Berry-Licious (public art sculpture instillation) 2016
Pictures at an Exhibition (juried) Harford Artist Association 2015
Maryland Society of Portrait Painters Member Show 2015
Harford County Centers for the Arts juried Plein Air Event (juried) 2015
Wilson Gallery, Nottingham PA. Plein Air Event 2015
Baltimore Creative Alliance, The Big Show 2011-14
Camera Obscura #102 Roman Opalka global collaborative 2006
Harford Artist Association, Pictures at an Exhibition (juried)2003
Washington DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, Pandamania “Pandancer” 2004 (public art sculpture Instillation)
Washington DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, Party Animals “Hooah” 2002 public art sculpture Instillation)
Press Releases:
July 2018 http://www.artzygazette.com/blog/2018/07/
November 2019 https://www.culturalartsboard.org/kaleidoscope.html
March 2019 http://apgnews.com/special-focus/all-things-maryland/emporium-debuts-portraits-from-havre-de-grace/
April 2019 https://www.baltimoresun.com/maryland/harford/aegis/ph-ag-pam-wilde-art-exhibit-0412-story.html
March 2019 https://www.visitmaryland.org/event/artists-emporium-presents-portraits-havre-de-grace
