Laura Joan Levine

I have a background in Art Therapy, Art History, and Studio Art. My analyses of my artworks on here are mostly afterthought, as I primarily work in a more intuitive fashion.

Having grown up in New York City, with city life feeling so hectic and artificial to me, I've always craved the spontaneous harmonies of nature. Family trips to the Caribbean stimulated this longing and influenced the kind of imagery I was to use, i.e., often of an aquatic, colorful, and exotic nature.

My work in the art therapy field gave me an understanding of the crucial role projection plays in both the making and viewing of a work of art. This realization stimulated me to work in a stream-of-consciousness way, enhancing the hazy, often amorphous dream-like feel of my work so as to give full reign to the subconscious and encourage projection in the viewer. Viewers do often project their thoughts onto my pieces; I expect the fluidity of the imagery to invite this sort of reaction.

When I moved to the Philadelphia suburbs in the mid-nineties, I now realize I must have absorbed the colorist tradition of this region, becoming even more immersed in the expressive potential of color than I was to begin with. I also began to find inspiration in the ideas a...

1995 New York University M.A. In Art Therapy

1989 Hamilton College B.A. with honors in Art History, minor in Studio Art

summer sessions at Rhode Island School of Design, Andover Academy Intensive Studio Art Program, Art Students' League NYC, and National Academy of Design NYC

I am and have been exhibiting in many venues in New York City and Philadelphia:

2025 (May): awarded the Elizabeth H. MacDonald prize for my portrait "The Skeptic" in the 111th Members' Medal show
at The Plastic Club, Philadelphia, Pa.

2025 (February 27 - March 27): 15 works featured in my solo show "Works in Watercolor" in the Bob Jackson Gallery at The Plastic Club, Philadelphia, Pa.

2024 (November): 14 artworks featured in my show "Seeing in Color" at PII Gallery, Philadelphia, Pa.

2024: multiple artworks featured in eight shows at The Plastic Club, Philadelphia, Pa.

2024: (March): awarded Honorable Mention for watercolor painting "Rude Awakening" in the "Let's Face It" show at The Plastic Club, Philadelphia, Pa.

2023 (October 14, 15): paintings exhibited in window and inside of Artist & Craftsman Supply in Philadelphia, Pa. for the Philadelphia Open Studio Tours (POST).

2023 (September): solo show at Side Street Gallery, Philadelphia, Pa.

2023: multiple artworks featured in seven shows at The Plastic Club, Philadelphia, Pa.

2022 - 23 (September-September): CFEVA's Penn Medicine at Radnor group show, Radnor, Pa.

2022-23 (April - April): CFEVA's Perelman Center for Advanced Medicine group show "A Celebration of Art an...