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Leslie Lillien Levy
Leslie Lillien Levy is an award-winning painter who specializes in still life and accepts portrait commissions. Working in either pastels or oils, her style is representational. According to Ms. Levy, "While I am cognizant of the requisite elements that make a good picture, I approach my work intuitively. The pure act of painting nourishes me."
Her work has been accepted, 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.
An article about her pastel paintings and featuring a step-by-step pastel still life demonstration is scheduled for publication in the July 2006 issue of The Artist's Magazine. For three consecutive years, one of her pastel still life paintings was featured in the 2005 Pastel Journal "Pastel 100" with an Honorable Mention in the still life and floral category. In 2004 a painting took fourth place in the still life and floral category. Two of her pastel still life paintings were distinguished in the 2003 Pastel Journal "Pastel 100," one taking third place, while the other garnering an Honorable Mention, both in the still life and floral category. A portrait she painted was selected as a finalist in The Artist Magazine's 1999 Annual Art Competition.
She has been featured in many solo and invitational exhibitions. Her paintings and commissioned portraits can be found in many private collections, as well.
Levy is active in several art organizations, currently serving on the Board of Directors of the Connecticut Pastel Society. She holds Signature Memberships in the Pastel Society of America and the Connecticut Pastel Society. She is a full artist member of Allied Artists of America and an elected artist member of the Salmagundi Club, NY. She served on the board of the Kent Art Association. A former member of the Alumni Advisory Council to her alma mater Maryland Institute College of Art in 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, where she studied with Harvey Dinnerstein.
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 to private students.
This artist can be reached by phone (860) 927-3855.
Surface mail: Leslie Lillien Levy, Post Office Box 69, Kent, CT 067577
Be sure to visit her website leslielillienlevy.com
Pear Party - 18" x 24" - soft pastel on Wallis sanded paper
White Cyclamen on Peach Plaid - 12" x 16" - soft pastel on Wallis sanded paper