Francene Levinson

Francene J. Levinson, Bainbridge Island, WA resident, and Brooklyn, N. Y. native, is an abstract digital Techspressionist painter who received her BA 1966, MA Art Ed 1969 from Brooklyn College, NY. and an Ed.S from Nova University 93. She began her studies of digital art at the Florida Institute of Art while teaching middle school fine art and computers in 1996. Her students went on to win regional awards in computer art. Besides teaching art for fifteen years, and raising her family, her art career includes stone sculpturing, multi-modular paper sculpturing, and original abstract Techspressionist digital painting. As a member of the International Techspressionist Salon, her art was shown at The Southampton Art Center, N.Y “Techspressionism: Digital and Beyond,” 2022. Notably, her digital paintings were part of the “Defining Beauty” exhibition at the California Museum of Art at Thousand Oaks, CA Aug. 2020 to 2021 and 2023 at the “Crocker-Kingsley Biennial and Blue Line Arts Gallery, Rosedale, CA

Francene received her BA Fine Art and MA Art Ed at Brooklyn College, New York, NY. There, she studied with Ad Reinhardt, Philip Pearlstein, and Albert Terris. She also studied stone carving at Montoya Studios, Palm Beach, FL. and digital art at The Art Institute of Ft. Lauderdale, FL. Her background in the principles and elements of art, allows her to apply that knowledge to digital drawing programs. She is able to express concepts that she feels can only be realized in this new digital medium.

Education
1996 - Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale, FL
1993 - Nova University, Davie, Florida – Ed. S (Educational Specialist SLD)
1986-89 - Montoya Art Studio, West Palm Beach, Florida – stone sculpturing
1969 - Brooklyn College, C.U.N.Y. –Master of Arts, (Fine Art + Education)
1966 - Brooklyn College, C.U.N.Y. – Bachelor of Arts - Fine Art

Selected Recent Exhibits
2023 CVG Gallery, Bremerton, WA
2022 Blue Line Arts Gallery, Rosedale, CA, “Crocker-Kingsley Biennial 2023”
South Hampton Art Center, NY. “Techspressionism, Digital and Beyond”
O'Hanlon Art Center, Mill Valley, CA, “Strictly Abstract”
2021 Cultural Arts Center of Cape Cod, South Yarmouth,
MA
www.Elementum.art - Curated Digital Art Gallery,
Germany, EU
California Museum of Art, Thousand Oaks, California,
“Defining Beauty”
Las Laguna Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
2020 California Museum of Art, Thousand Oaks, California,
“Defining Beauty”
Portland Art Museum RSG Gallery, Fall Show,
Portland, Oregon
2019 Portland Art Museum RSG Gallery, Portland, Oregon,
Representation
Verum Ultimum Art Gallery, Portland, Oregon
2018 Portland Art Museum RSG Gallery, Portland, Oregon
Gallery 114, Portland, Oregon
2017 Gallery 114, Portland, Oregon