CRUSH
A Solo Show of new works by R. Leveille
Opening at Site:Brooklyn in partnership with R.Michelson Galleries
March 24-April 23rd - Opening Reception March 31, 6-9pm
165 7th Street, Brooklyn, New York 11215 718.625.3646
A Solo Show of new works by R. Leveille
Opening at Site:Brooklyn in partnership with R.Michelson Galleries
March 24-April 23rd - Opening Reception March 31, 6-9pm
165 7th Street, Brooklyn, New York 11215 718.625.3646
"Getting Fucked" 11x14, Oil on Canvas
A Pretty Girl In Her Underwear, 30x48, oil on canvas
This. 12x12, oil on canvas
In Leveille's new work the notion of "crush" takes on multiple interconnected meanings: the deeply personal feeling of intimacy with, but also being overwhelmed by the artistic subject. Her figurative work explores these themes by interacting with the influence of a number of artists including Jim Shaw, Alice Neel and Walter Robinson. This notion of intimacy is further explored by the equal power she invests in symbolic personal, and pop culture images, bringing into question the viewers relationship with emotion and artistic subject matter. Her uses of pattern bring complex cultural associations of domesticity and colonial exoticism while also intimating the duality that occurs with the same memory or relationship.
Leveille's work is garnering ever growing praise. Jerry Saltz called her work "very good"(see"THIS"above painting) and Walter Robinson commended that "Somebody's Got Skills"
Art critic,poet and historian Peter Frank writes of Leveille's work:
"It is this refractive mindset, this looking at looking, that truly makes Leveille work modernist (or, if you would, neo-modernist). Clearly enamored of her subjects and clearly committed to the development of an increasingly rich palette and increasingly voluptuous drawing style, Leveille's is most interested in how to get these formal qualities to serve pictorial narratives without disappearing into them. That is, she wants to balance method and material, giving equal weight to what is pictured and to how it works as a picture. Form in Rebecca Leveille’s art follows fiction and function; as a result, that art proves as bracing as it is enchanting."
Leveille's work is garnering ever growing praise. Jerry Saltz called her work "very good"(see"THIS"above painting) and Walter Robinson commended that "Somebody's Got Skills"
Art critic,poet and historian Peter Frank writes of Leveille's work:
"It is this refractive mindset, this looking at looking, that truly makes Leveille work modernist (or, if you would, neo-modernist). Clearly enamored of her subjects and clearly committed to the development of an increasingly rich palette and increasingly voluptuous drawing style, Leveille's is most interested in how to get these formal qualities to serve pictorial narratives without disappearing into them. That is, she wants to balance method and material, giving equal weight to what is pictured and to how it works as a picture. Form in Rebecca Leveille’s art follows fiction and function; as a result, that art proves as bracing as it is enchanting."
She received a BFA from Pratt Institute and has been a guest speaker at Rhode Island School of Design and a guest artist by invitation to shows and events in Melbourne Australia,Paris France, Nagoya and Osaka Japan, Valencia, Valencia Spain and Bologna Italy.
This is her first solo show in New York City
This is her first solo show in New York City
Tea and Approval, 30x48, oil on canvas