About
Francene Levinson
Born in Brooklyn, NY
Lives & works in Portland, Oregon
I am an artist who creates digital abstract minimalist paintings. The format is manipulated original digital painting based on a magnetic algorithm. Pixels themselves are pushed, pulled, and stretched to emphasize the dynamics of line and the volume of form. Digital painting programs are unique because they use algorithms to control light, color and texture in digital form. This new medium art requires mastery of all the program parameters in addition to knowledge of the elements and principles of fine art.
When considering colors to use in my compositions, their intensity, value and hue have a weighted effect on my conceptual arrangement of them. The shapes and lines I use to create my art are most often selected from the basic geometric array and are treated with repetition, distortion, direction and transparency. I draw inspiration from dynamic forces found in nature and the human experience. I seek to reveal the beautiful simplified essence of natural forms. My experience as a sculptor has influenced my desire to paint volumes within my compositions.
My educational background includes: BA fine art and MA art education 1966 and 1969, Brooklyn College, NY; My artist/instructors: Ad Rheinehart and Philip Pearlstein were a great source of my knowledge of color,form and composition.
My art career includes: art education instruction; stone sculpturing; and Chinese modular paper sculpturing.
I find the common patterns and structures in nature, architecture, and mathematics to be a strong influence on all my artwork.
Digital painting allows me to express unique artistic visions that I would not be able to render in any other medium.
CV
Education
1993 - ED.S/sld - Nova Univ.
1986-89 - Montoya Art Studio, West Palm Beach, Florida – stone sculpturing
1969 - MA Fine Art/Education, C.U.N.Y.
1966 - Fine Art/Education C.U.N.Y.
Selected Awards
2019 - International Artdex Award
2013 - Judges Recognition, Delray Center for the Arts, 3 D Sculpture
2012 - Best In Show + People’s Choice, Rossetti Fine Art Gallery, Pompano Beach, FL,
2012 - Art Craft Award - Nathan Rosen Gallery and Museum, Boca Raton, FL, March
2011- Best in Show , Delray Beach, FL- "Art on the Ave."
2010 - First Place – Boca Raton Museum of Art, Biennial, Boca Raton, FL
2009 -- Featured Artist Award - ManhattanArts.com
Grant
2010 - Mastermind Art Grant, South Florida
Selected Exhibitions
2019
Rental Sales Gallery, Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon
Gallery 114, Portland, Oregon
Verum Ultimum Gallery, Portland, OR
2018
Rental Sales Gallery, Portland Art Museum ,Portland, OR.
Rental Sales Gallery, Portland Museum of Art
Gallery 114, Portland, Oregon ,
2017
Gallery 114, Portland, Oregon
Gallery 114, Portland, Oregon
Geezer Gallery, Portland, Oregon
2016
Hillsboro Library Gallery, Hillsboro, Oregon
2015
Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China
2013
Scripps Research Institute, Jupiter, FL, Juried Exhibit, Nexus: Science + Art, 2010,2011,2012,2013
2012
Paseo Originals Gallery, Oklahoma City,OK, Two Person Show
Fuller Craft Museum. Brockton,MA.
City Gallery, Grand Rapids, MI.,
Rossetti Fine Art Gallery, Pompano Beach, FL,
B J Spoke Gallery, Huntington, N.Y., "Paper Works," Juror:Laura Phipps, Assistant Curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art
Second Ave. Gallery, Florida Atlantic University,Ft. Lauderdale, FL
Nathan Rosen Gallery and Museum, Boca Raton, FL
Rossetti Fine Art, Pompano Beach, FL
Highland Beach Library Gallery, Highland Beach, FL, "
Armory Art Center,West Palm Beach, Fl,
Publications
Woven Tale Press. Vol. VII #2
* Salaan Magazine, vol.2
* AllthingsPaper.net Blog by Ann Martin article: Francene Levinson 2014
*Contemporary paper Sculptures
"500 Paper Objects" by Lark Crafts,Sterling Publishers, 2013
"Art and Beyond", pg 37, "Ocean Garden" Paper Sculpture by Francene Levinson
2013
* "Art Takes Miami",Juried Competition, Catalog Published for presentation at Scopes, Miami, 2011
* "Visual Masters Magazine", London, England Feb. 2011
* "Best of World Wide Sculptors", Spring, Kennedy Publishing - 5251-18 JOHN TYLER HIGHWAY #311, WILLIAMSBURG, VA 23185
* Hongkiat.com: Masters of Paper Art and Paper Sculptures, Part II 2011
* "Visual Overture Magazine", Artist of the Week, July 4, 2011
* American Juried Art Society(AJAS) Quarterly, July2011