Showing posts with label Abby Levine. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Abby Levine. Show all posts
Wednesday, September 20, 2017
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Thursday, April 25, 2013
NEW Art Exhibit by Abby Levine
(Union City, NJ) The City of Union City, Mayor Brian P. Stack & Board of Commissioners cordially invite the community to the new solo art exhibit “Inside Out and Backwards” featuring artist Abby Levine opening on Friday, May 10, 2013 at 7:00 PM at the William V. Musto Cultural Center located at 420 - 15th Street in Union City, NJ.
There will be live music and refreshments. The artist will be present to speak about her work. Admission is free. The exhibit will remain up for approximately two months.
The show will consist of carved wood paintings and wall reliefs completed within the past year. Abby Levine has been living in Union City since 2008. She has been exhibiting her work since she graduated from Tyler School of Art, Temple University in 1976.
While a student at Temple University, Abby became involved with pattern and decoration, banding columnar stretched canvases with intense color. Figurative elements and narration began to work their way into the equation and, by the early 80’s, she was producing small papier mache dioramas based on Greek mythology. A move to the trash-strewn Williamsburg section of Brooklyn led to a preoccupation with architectural forms and the production of fragmented, constructed and reassembled wood structures painted in shades of white. Relocation to Seattle brought a reexamination of color and the use of dead-matte paint along with a continued development of wood construction techniques. The tension between the organic and manmade became a major focus. After 1991, the narrative and architectural merged with the addition of pyrography (woodburning) as a linear device. The retention of architectural elements referenced furniture and religious constructions, with the overall form of the piece providing a metaphor for its content. Making narrative pieces generated a great deal of scrap wood, which eventually became parts of new pieces, more abstract and less pre-determined. The most recent pieces are meant to be fiercely whimsical, teeming with life, and independent of cultural context.
For more information about this event or any other at the William V. Musto Cultural Center, please visit: www.UnionCityMuseum.org
Monday, January 23, 2012
Art Show "All Too Human"
The City of Union City will host an Opening Reception of Craig Radhuber & Abby Levine's new art exhibit entitled "All Too Human" on Friday, January 27, 2012 at 7:00 PM at the William V. Musto Cultural Center located at 420 - 15th Street in Union City. The artists will be present at the event greeting everyone; there will be live jazz music by The James Austin Trio, and refreshments will be served. Admission to the event is free, and everyone in the community is invited to attend.
Craig Radhuber and Abby Levine are residents of Union City. In their work, they advocate freedom of thought and movement for all humans on the planet.
Abby Levine was born in Newark, New Jersey and attended the Tyler School of Art, Temple University, graduating in 1976. Since then, her work has been exhibited in Philadelphia, New York City, New Jersey, St. Louis MO, Massachusetts, Seattle, Lubbock, Dallas, Houston, Marfa and Austin Texas, as well as in Mexico, Canada and India. Her work has been showcased in many publications worldwide.
Abby began working in wood in 1991, utilizing pyrography (wood-burning,) painting, layering and carving to convey her message. The work revolves around three basic themes: politics, philosophy, and popular culture. Her goal is to make it beautiful and playful, as well as thought provoking.
Abby is very active in Union City's thriving arts community, where she is a member of the board of the Union City Artists' Collective. She received the Premio ARTE in 2010 for her painting and sculpture.
Craig Radhuber was born in Jersey City, and grew up in Wayne Township, New Jersey. Craig has strong ties to Union City since both of his parents were born here in the 1920s. His grandparents on both sides of his family settled in Union City and made it their home for life.
Craig built his first pinhole camera in 1966 and began to play around with photography, and by 1970 he was developing his own black and white film and creating enlargements. Craig began to show his work alongside his grandfather, William Radhuber Sr. who was renowned for his miniature oil paintings.
Opening Reception
Craig Radhuber & Abby Levine's
new art exhibit entitled "All Too Human"
Friday, January 27, 2012 at 7:00 PM
William V. Musto Cultural Center
420 - 15th Street, Union City
Live Jazz Music by The James Austin Trio
Free Admission
Refreshments Served
Catch Craig and Abby's interviews on "Live On Stage":
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