Senses Sculpture

1962, NYC

Leviton appropriates classic and well-known works of art, as well as religious and mythological themes, and then reformats them into a modern context via materials and installation. His art reflects a scholarly passion for classical and contemporary figurative sculpture and religious, political, and personal themes.

Working in found object assemblages combined with life casting, latex, plaster, fabrication, and kinetics, the sculptures present themselves in a contemporary motif. Making the sculptures kinetic adds the attraction of a pseudo living force and invites both visual and sometimes physical participation.

On the psychological side of Levitons examinations he seeks both the disturbing and the comically ironic end of what is the human condition. He produces a macabre mix of flayed skins, body parts, mechanical devises that delivers the viewer to contemplate their bodies and those of their neighbors-- what one can accept and what one cannot; what is an affront and what is open to examination.