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Artwork by Laura Joan Levine

Each image may be purchased as a canvas print, framed print, metal print, and more! Every purchase comes with a 30-day money-back guarantee.

About Laura Joan Levine

Laura Joan Levine The artwork here is displayed mostly in chronological order, with the most recent tending to be first. Note - none of my artwork is digital.

You can see detailed analyses of many of my artworks at
https://www.saatchiart.com/laurajoanlevine when you click on the image and scroll down.

To see my blog, you can scroll down on this page to the black "About" section and click on "Blog".

You can email me at LauraJoanLevine@outlook.com
and get updates on exhibitions @laurajoanlevine on Instagram.

Professional Background:

I have a background in Art Therapy and Studio Art. My artwork consists primarily of expressionist watercolor paintings, mixed media collages, and portraits. I've exhibited in many different venues around Philadelphia and New York City:

2024 (March): painting "Rude Awakening" won honorable mention in "Let's Face It" show, The Plastic Club, Philadelphia, Pa.

2024 (February): piece featured in "Back to Basics" show, The Plastic Club, Philadelphia, Pa.

2024 (January): three pieces featured in
"New Members' Show", The Plastic Club, Philadelphia, Pa.

2023 (December): two pieces featured in "Small Works" show, The Plastic Club, Philadelphia, Pa.

2023 (October 14, 15): 4 pieces exhibited downstairs and 3 paintings exhibited in window of Artist & Craftsman Supply in Philadelphia, Pa. for the Philadelphia Open Studio Tours (POST).

2023 (September): solo show at Side Street Gallery, Philadelphia, Pa.

2023 (September): piece featured in "Going Rogue" show, The Plastic Club, Philadelphia, Pa.

2023 (August): piece featured in "Annual Workshop/Models/Monitors Show", The Plastic Club, Philadelphia, Pa.

2023 (July): piece featured in "A Summer's Tale" show, The Plastic Club, Philadelphia, Pa.

2023 (June): two pieces featured in Members' Choice show, The Plastic Club, Philadelphia, Pa.

2023 (May): piece featured in Members' Medal juried show, The Plastic Club, Philadelphia, Pa.

2023 (March): piece featured in "Bright Lights Big City" juried show, The Plastic Club, Philadelphia, Pa.

2023 (February): piece featured in "Love's Great Adventure" juried show, The Plastic Club, Philadelphia, Pa.

2022 - 23 (September): CFEVA's Penn Medicine at Radnor group show, Radnor, Pa.

2022-23 (April): CFEVA's Perelman Center for Advanced Medicine group show: "A Celebration of Art and Life", Philadelphia, Pa.

2019 - three artworks featured in the book "The Kingdom of the Few and Far Between: a Trilogy" by Gail Randolph

2016 (October - November): "Mad Hatter Tea Party" three person show, Legend Galleries, Philadelphia, Pa.

2014 (July): See.Me's Times Square digital exhibit - five artworks chosen for display, NYC.

2013 (August - September): See.Me's "The Story of the Creative" - a digital screening of the work of a hundred artists from all over the world at the See.Me gallery in NYC

2012: "1001 Artists" digital screening of art at Scope Miami (organized by See.Me)

2012 (June): - Art Takes Times Square' first outdoor digital screening of art in New York City (organized by See.Me)

2012: artwork entitled "Bugs on the March" featured in the Fall issue of the N.Y.U. literary magazine, The Minetta Review

2012 (February - March): "Expressions of Radnor" juried show, Wayne Art Center, Wayne, Pa.

2012 (February): solo show, Gryphon Cafe, Wayne, Pa.

2009 (October): Gryphon Cafe, "Two Journeys" show, Wayne, Pa.

2008: three paintings featured in "Two Villages" exhibit (extended a month by viewers' request) at the Anthroposophical Society of NYC

2008 (November): Main Line Unitarian Church, Wayne, Pa.

2007 (November): Main Line Unitarian Church, Wayne, Pa.

2005 (September): Mile of Art Exhibit, Bryn Mawr, Pa.

2004 (December): Philadelphia Cathedral, Pa.

2004 (June and November): two group shows, Journey Home Community Enrichment Center, Philadelphia

2003 (November 18 - January 17): two woman show with Andrea Durning entitled "Waking Dreams", Project H.O.M.E, Philadelphia

2002 (summer): outdoor group show, Salon Des Amis, Berwyn, Pa.

2001 (November 27 - January 12): Project H.O.M.E., Philadelphia

2000-1 (September): year long solo show, Wayne Train Station, Wayne, Pa.

1999 (February): Gryphon Cafe, Wayne, Pa.

1999 (January): Borders Bookstore, Rosemont, Pa.

1997-8 (November, December, January): Borders Bookstore, Philadelphia

1997 (August): New Arts Salon, Philadelphia

1997 (February and March): University Arts League, Philadelphia

1996 (October and November): Borders Bookstore, Philadelphia

1996 (July): New Arts Salon, Philadelphia

I am also looking to connect with like minded artists and gallery owners and to do portraits. either in person or from photographs.

Education:

- New York University M.A. In Art Therapy,1995

- Hamilton College B.A. cum laude with honors in Art History, minor in Studio Art,1989

- summer sessions at the Art Students' League, National Academy of Design, Rhode Island School of Design, and Andover Academy Intensive Studio Art Program.


Life and Ideas:

Born and raised in New York City, I presently live in the Philadelphia suburbs. I've been passionate about art since I was a child, and through it I often symbolically acted out, explored my dreams and areas of conflict; it was art therapy of sorts, and this later led to my Art Therapy career, where I could help others do as I did. I have always been interested in all of the arts, psychology, spirituality, nature, and creative thinking.

Having grown up in New York City, with city life feeling so hectic and artificial to me, I've always craved the spontaneous harmonies of nature. Family trips to the Caribbean islands stimulated this longing and influenced the kind of imagery I was to use, i.e., often of an aquatic, colorful, and exotic nature.

My work in the Art Therapy field gave me an understanding of the crucial role that psychological projection plays in both the making and viewing of a work of art. This realization stimulated me to work in a stream-of-consciousness way, enhancing the hazy, often amorphous dream-like feel of my work so as to give full reign to the subconscious and encourage projection in the viewer. Indeed, viewers do often project their thoughts onto my pieces.

When I moved to the Philadelphia suburbs in the mid-nineties, I now realize I must have absorbed the colorist tradition of this region, becoming even more immersed in the expressive potential of color than I was to begin with. I also began to find inspiration in the ideas and work of abstract expressionists like Kandinsky. His book "Concerning the Spiritual in Art" particularly affected me with its emphasis on reinvigorating the modern psyche through a use of vibrant colors, shapes, and rhythmic compositions. After seeing Hilma Af Klint's (predated Kandinsky by five years in pioneering abstract art) retrospective at the Guggenheim in 2018, I immediately felt a deep kinship with her and this feeling continues. My work has also been influenced by Fauvism with its bold coloring and Surrealism with its otherworldly subject matter and dreamlike mood.

In several of my recent paintings I explore the visual and psychological effects of pixelated images.