Leslie Lillien Levy
Leslie Lillien Levy is an award-winning painter who
specializes in still life and accepts portrait commissions. Working
in pastels or oils, her style is representational.
Her work has been exhibited and won awards in numerous national
and regional juried shows including: Academic Artists Association
(Best in Show 1999), Allied Artists of America, American Artists
Processional League, Audubon Artists, Catharine Lorillard Wolfe
Art Club, Connecticut Pastel Society, Connecticut Women Artists,
Mattatuck Museum, New Britain Museum of American Art, Oil Painters
of America, Pastel Society of America, Rye Arts Center and Salmagundi
Non-Members Open.
Her pastel still life painting will be featured in the 2004 Pastel
Journal “Pastel 100.” Two other pastel still life paintings
of hers were distinguished in the 2003 Pastel Journal “Pastel
100.” A portrait she painted was a finalist in The Artist
Magazine’s 1999 Annual Art Competition. Her paintings can
be found in many private collections, as well.
She has participated in numerous group and solo shows including:
a solo show at the Kent Memorial Library, 2003; a two-man show,
2003 and a three-woman show, 2000 at PS Gallery, Litchfield, CT;
a one-woman show at the James Beard Foundation, New York, NY, 2000;
a group show “Women Artists of Litchfield County,” Glass
Mountain Gallery, Bantam, CT, 1999; a one-woman show at the Silas
Bronson Library Gallery, Waterbury, CT, 1999.
Levy is active in several art organizations, currently serving
on the Board of the Connecticut Pastel Society. She holds Signature
Memberships in the Pastel Society of America and the Connecticut
Pastel Society. A full artist member of Allied Artists of America,
she is a member of the Alumni Advisory Council to her alma mater
Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore where she received
her BFA. Levy was a member of the Board of Control of the world-renowned
Art Students League of New York.
Levy resides in Kent, CT with her husband, Richard. She paints in
her studio adjacent to her home where she also teaches pastel and
oil painting in still life and portraiture.
Contact
leslielevy@earthlink.net
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