Alexandria Levin
Alexandria Levin is a graduate of the San Francisco Art Institute. She has exhibited her work in galleries, museums, and cultural centers for many years, such as the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, the Museum of Fine Arts in Santa Fe, the Albuquerque Museum, the Harwood Museum in Taos, and the Pittock Mansion in Portland. Her paintings are in private collections across the U.S., plus Tokyo, London, and Scotland, as well as part of New Mexico’s Capitol Art Collection in Santa Fe.
From the Artist:
As an artist, painting in oil is a form of story-telling, with personal, social, and ecological issues prevalent in my work. I use instinct, memory, intent, and metaphor to express something deeper going on below the surface of the picture plane, balancing narrative with real and abstract impressions of what has been seen and/or experienced.
During the pandemic I began an intuitive dive into watercolor abstractions, evocative of nature, poetic thought, and various states of being. This work is seeking, as opposed to depicting. Two years into creating this new body of work I received an Autism diagnosis, and although I cannot pin how this affects my art, what I can say is that it is my whole authentic being, same thing as being the sort of lifelong unique artist I always have been and continue to be.
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