Robert Levine is an American artist/sculptor, born in
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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, and currently living in
Venice, CA
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.
Education
Levine received his
Bachelor of Fine Arts
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Background ...
from
Carnegie-Mellon University
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and his
Master of Fine Arts
A Master of Fine Arts (MFA or M.F.A.)
is a terminal degree in fine arts, including visual arts, creative writing, graphic design, photography, filmmaking, dance, theatre, other performing arts and in some cases, theatre management or arts admi ...
at
CalArts
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in 1988.
Career
Levine's work is sculpture infused with humor. A 1994
LA Times
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review of his art notes, "His "Half Knot Painting" is the sleeper of the show, a witty, punning mosaic of wood scraps, half with knots and half without. Understated and crudely coated with resin, it rips through the posturing of the work surrounding it to make a fresh and clever statement about painting's proudly confused identity."
Levine's work appeared in 2015 – "After Malevich", MAMA gallery, Los Angeles, CA; 2011– Paintings,
Maloney Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA; 2004– Robert Levine, Superior (an exhibition space), Cleveland, OH; 2001– New Work, Finesilver Gallery, San Antonio, TX; 2000– Broken Standard Pencil Structure, Roberts & Tilton, Los Angeles, CA; 1999– New Works on Paper, Sandroni Rey Gallery, Venice, CA; 1999– Recent Sculpture, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA; 1998– Things Painted, Kantor Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; 1992– New Work,
Thomas Solomon's Garage, Los Angeles, CA; 1990– New Work, Thomas Solomon's Garage, Los Angeles, CA; and 1988– Post Facto Intentionalities, D-300, Calarts, Valencia, CA.
Most recently, Levine exhibited at LSH CoLab with his work titled “Regular Painting”.
Levine describes the collection by stating "
ny of the objects I choose to paint are of the most ordinary things we live with – everyday objects; coke cups, a plain propane tank, a bike wheel, a painting rack for example. The lack of expressionistic brushwork force me to make something interesting using the sparest tools – composition, material/surface, paint handling, color/tone, historical references. It’s related to Minimalism but obviously isn’t that. There really is no such thing as a regular painting. I like the lack of qualitative inference.”
References
California Institute of the Arts alumni
Sculptors from Los Angeles
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
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