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      • 2021-2 Drawing Rooms Exhibitions
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        • David & Beatrice: Hands and Other Symbols. The Work of David W. Cummings and Beatrice M. Mady
        • Take Home a Work of Art Fundraiser 2020
        • Art Fair 14C 2020
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        • The Big Show: All Animals Welcome
        • Cosmic Love
        • Just Beneath the Surface
        • Let Me Tell You A Story
        • Somewhere We Landed
        • Art Fair 14C 2019
      • 2018 >
        • Now Ya See it Now Ya Don’t / Open and Shut / Sneak Peek/ Not Ready for Prime Time / This is Not the Grand Opening: Drawing Rooms Presents Artists of the Topps Building
        • Somewhere Over The Interconnected Rainbow and Prospero's Grand St. Masque
        • Drawing Rooms Art Project: JC to AC
      • 2017 >
        • The Big Small Show 2017
        • Honoring Margaret & Sup-A-Genius
        • NJCU MFA Dress Rehearsal
        • The Can-Man Show
        • The Innocence of Trees
        • Bold and Beautiful
      • 2016 >
        • THE BIG SMALL Show 2016
        • State of the Union
        • Pin It Up
        • ReUse, ReDuce, RePurpose: The Art of ReFuse
        • New Drawing, New Jersey
        • The Nature of Things
        • Project Rooms Show 2016
      • 2015 >
        • THE BIG SMALL SHOW 2015
        • The Divine and Sublime
        • Mostly Drawing
        • Color Rules
        • Little Hand
        • Paper Constructions
        • Project Rooms Show 2015
      • 2014 >
        • THE BIG SMALL SHOW 2014
        • Duets
        • Drawing of the Wall
        • There to Here
        • Automatic Systematic
        • Pictures of Everything
        • Just Looking
      • 2013 >
        • THE BIG SMALL PAINTING SHOW 2013
        • Raw Drawing
        • Multiplicities
        • Night and Day
      • 2012 >
        • Subjective Objective
      • 2011 >
        • Pin It Up at Mana Contemporary
        • VAP at Warburg Realty
        • Victory Arts Projects at Mack-Cali Atrium
      • 2007-10 >
        • Victory Arts Projects at The Beacon
        • 545 Washington
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        • Dvora 2020
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Laura Lou Levy
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    "Cloud Series: Reach"
    Oil stick + Oil pastel on Arches Oil Paper
    16" x 20" framed  2020    $900.

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    "Cloud Series:  Cradle"
    Oil stick + Oil pastel on Arches Oil Paper  16" x 20" framed 2020 
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    "Cloud Series: Sway"
    Oil stick + Oil pastel on Arches Oil Paper  16" x 20" framed  2021
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    "Cloud Series: Adagio"
    Oil stick + Oil pastel on Arches Oil Paper   16" x 20" framed   2021
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    "Cloud Series: My Octopus Teacher"
    Oil stick + Oil pastel on Arches Oil Paper  16" x 20" framed  2021
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    "Cloud Series: Wing"
    Oil stick + Oil pastel on Arches Oil Paper   16" x 20" framed   2021
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Laura Lou Levy Bio & Statement
Laura Lou Levy has a BA in Fine Arts from Indiana University, Bloomington and Universidad Complutense, Madrid, as well as an MFA in Painting from Pratt Institute, Brooklyn.  A native of Kentucky, she spent years in Brooklyn and Manhattan before migrating to Maplewood, New Jersey.  She now makes her home by Pines Lake in northern New Jersey.

Levy has continuously devoted time to art-making, showing her drawings and paintings in galleries, nonprofit spaces, and museums.  Her work has been mentioned, featured, and reviewed in publications including The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Star Ledger, and American Artist.  It is in private collections in the US, Spain, England, France, and Israel, including Seagram, Dow Jones, the Brooklyn Art Library, and the National Portrait Gallery at the Smithsonian Institution.  Her work for 36 years as a Senior "Hedcut" Illustrator for The Wall Street Journal won numerous awards, and was featured in print and on television news. Levy's painting studio is at Manufacturer's Village in East Orange, NJ, with studio visits by appointment.

My work is specific to place: I hike and climb there, in locations as disparate as the Red River Gorge in my native Kentucky, the dramatic coasts of Cape Breton - Nova Scotia and Quebec, to New Brunswick and Newfoundland, returning again and again to coastal Maine. I explore space in my drawings and paintings –negative space, and how it stretches deep. Surface is important to me, and the calm shapes land makes: the sensual curve of mountains, the distant undulation of a watery horizon, a river’s meandering sway .

A couple of years ago I started to look up, and the Cloud Series began unfolding.  With this series, I seek balance in the careening emotional seas I navigate.  Each piece is based directly on one of the thousands of photographs I keep taking, each a distinct moment in a specific space where I stand witness to the endless surge and change above and all around me. 

In the Cloud Series, I lose my body.  I invite the viewer to dive with me into the depth and mystery, the ever-changing curl and swell of cloud and sky; to trace the sharp, delicate arcs of electric connection; to swim, dance, float, and get lost in the blue.

 

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​Topps Building
​926 Newark Ave #T107

Jersey City, NJ 07306
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Victory Hall Inc/Drawing Rooms is committed to providing programming that is accessible to all. We are working to ensure full accessibility at all our venues. Please contact us with any questions at 201-208-8032.