Born in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1953, Levenson attended Franconia College in New Hampshire, majoring in photography and ceramics from 1972 to 1976. The artist built and ran a pottery studio in Randolph, New Hampshire over the next two years. Moving to Vancouver in 1978, he enrolled at the Emily Carr College of Art and Design where he studied sculpture and printmaking, graduating with honours from the interdisciplinary division.
From 1982 to 1991 Levenson worked full time at the Malaspina Printmakers’ Society, producing monoprints and etchings. In 1991 and 1992 he focused on a series of large paintings in oil on aluminum.
He shows regularly at the Bau-Xi galleries in Vancouver and Toronto, as well as at the Foster White Gallery in Seattle. His work is included in many corporate collections, as well as the Canada Council Art Bank.
Your Nature 30/75
Marty Levenson
Copper plate etching
12 x 9 in.
Value: $115.00
Rental per month: $5.00
Marty Levenson’s work is abstract and painterly in style, focusing on the personal and psychological in content. He strives to explore the issues arising in his own life: fear, love, relatedness, boundaries, the working edges of his existence.
His work draws on the margin where the unconscious is becoming conscious, where new potentials are joining the recognized and familiar. In his work, he says he searches that edge of growth that helps us glimpse our own nature.
Drypoint and sanding produced the image printed from two copper plates. The red was applied à la poupée. Image size is 12” by 9” (30 cm by 23 cm).