Pamela Levy (1949-2004), Girl Brushing Her Hair, 1997. Woodcut. Signed and dated, marked AP. 67X64.5 cm. Pamela Levy (1949-2004) was born in Fairfield, Iowa. She studied at the University of Northern Iowa, and later joined an artists commune in Santa Fe, New Mexico. In 1976 she immigrated to Israel. Her early works were textile collages inspired by the feminist Pattern and Decoration art movement. In the 1980s she started to experiment with other techniques, painting figurative scenes in oil, based on photographs (some of which she herself took), and creating woodcuts and silkscreens, always retaining a collage-like, patchwork quality. Levy's works deal with feminist and political issues, "her oil paintings are made as collages featuring naked and clothed figures in deserted urban spaces, building sites or on the beach. They are psychologically charged, saturated with tension and contrasts between fear and delight, childhood and old age, complete and ripped, violent and merciful" (exhibition statement – retrospective of Levy's work at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, 2018). Provenance: The Uzi Agassi Collection.