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Les Levine

Les Levine (Born 1935) is active/lives in New York, Ontario / Canada.  Les Levine is known for Mod figure, environments, collage.

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Conceptual artist Les Levine, born in 1935 in Dublin, Ireland, and now lives in New York City.  He was a founder of media art, his first videotapes produced in 1964.  Since then, he has created environments, installations, sculptures and mass media campaigns.  He also makes plasticine models for these media projects.

Levine's large-scale drawings on canvas are usually 6' x 8' in size and are done with oil stick or with wax on paper. Typically, his work consists of an image of an object, such as a building, combined with a word, for example, "Taking a Position," is one of his large drawings.

Levine was educated at the Central School of Arts and Crafts in London, England. His awards include First Prize at the Art Gallery of Ontario, and a grant from the National Endowment of the Arts. His work, exhibited at Documenta, Kassel, West Germany, and the Finch College Museum.  It is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art bot   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 6404 characters.]  Artist bio

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