Mosaic Tile House Venice, CA

Pann started life in the projects in the Boyle Heights area of Los Angeles. At an early age she began drawing and coloring everything within her reach, but her mom, knowing only about the performing arts, proceeded to send her to piano, dancing, and acting lessons. In her late teens, she went to see a Vincent Van Gogh exhibit, stood in front of his paintings, said “I’m an artist!”, and has never looked back. For the next few years she went to UCLA where she studied printmaking, then subsequently apprenticed herself to the printmaker Don LaViere Turner, and took additional printmaking classes at USC. Later, at Cal State L.A., she immersed herself in drawing and ceramics, eventually earning a Master's in Fine Art. From the late sixties to the mid-nineties, Pann had more than 20 solo exhibitions in California and Japan, as well as having been in more than 50 group shows. For over two decades, a portion of each year was spent traveling throughout Europe and Asia, living in Japan, France, and Hawaii for periods of four to fifteen months at a time. Since the mid-nineties she has exhibited exclusively in her live/work studio in Venice, CA., where she is continuously at work painting in oil, building mural-sized constructions which are political commentaries, and creating vessels, functional items, & tiles out of stoneware clay. Her tiles have found their way into the mosaics decorating her home like a Gaudi or the Watts Towers, as well as numerous private commissions.