Levine, Kathy

Kathy Levine is an environmentally minded artist who creates relief paintings and sculptures from recycled cast paper, oil paint, water based photo-transfers and other materials. She received her Master of Fine Arts degree from Pratt Institute.

Ms. Levine was awarded an Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award, a grant from the Brooklyn Arts Council, an artist-in-residence fellowship from Yellowstone National Park, artist-in-residencies at: the Millay Colony for the Arts, Indiana Dunes National Park, Painted Desert/Petrified Forest National Park, Soaring Gardens, the Arts Center of Yates County and Waterfall Arts as well as an honorarium from the Women’s Caucus for Art and a graduate fine arts fellowship from Pratt Institute.

In addition, Ms. Levine was a founding member of C.A.I.R.N. (City Artists in Response to Nature), a group of NYC visual artists who explored the individual and collective need to connect with the natural world in a contemporary way. As one of the group’s leaders, she organized exhibitions in galleries in New York City and the surrounding area.

Ms. Levine’s work is in the collections of Memorial Sloan Kettering, The Federal Reserve Bank, The Painted Desert and Indiana Dunes National Park, Dun and Bradstreet, and St. Joseph’s College among others. Her work has been exhibited at Yale University, the Brooklyn Museum’s GO Brooklyn Art Open Studio Project. the Islip Art Museum, Sculptors Alliance, The Arsenal Gallery, Garvey/Simon Art Access, Soho Center for Visual Artists, New Jersey Center for Visual Arts, The PanAm Building (now MetLife), The New York Law School, Cornell Medical Center and the Federal Plaza to name a few.

Additionally, Ms. Levine taught at The New School, Brooklyn College, Pratt Institute, Adelphi University, Dowling College, the Fashion Institute of Technology as well as at Nassau, Suffolk and Kingsborough Community Colleges. Ms. Levine has also photographed for the New York State United Teachers Newsletter/Magazine, Kingsborough Community College, Dowling College and the Chinatown Planning Council.

Artwork

Rural Vestiges - Jaw and Pistol Size: 15.75 x 12 x .5 inches Things that are disappearing or have vanished from the rural landscape.
Rural Vestiges - Tool Size: 16 x 10 x 1 inches Things that are disappearing or have vanished from the rural landscape.
Rural Vestiges - Hands Size: 18 x 14 x 2.5 inches Things that are disappearing or have vanished from the rural landscape.
Endangered Western Chorus Frog Size: 8 x 4.25 x 2 inches This piece was cast from the bark of a tree using recycled paper. The Western Chorus Frog is endangered due to habitat loss, pesticide use and the effects of climate change. Only part of the frog is seen to show how it is disappearing from our planet.
Bark Portrait 2 Size: 10.5 x 5.75 x 1.25 The "Bark Portraits" were molded directly from the bark of a London Plane tree just outside of my studio.
Bark Portrait 5 Size: 10 x 3.5 x 1 The "Bark Portraits" were molded directly from the bark of a London Plane tree just outside of my studio.
Bark Portrait 9 Size: 13 x 7 x 1.5 The "Bark Portraits" were molded directly from the bark of a London Plane tree just outside of my studio.
Kahèsena Hàki Size: 18.5 x 20.5 x 3 inches Kahèsena Hàki means Mother Earth in Linape, the language of the indigenous people who lived in north eastern Pennsylvania where this piece was cast.
Upheaval - After Sandy Size: 8.5 x 9.25 x .5 inches This piece was molded from the cross section of a tree using handmade recycled paper. The oil painting shows what happened a few blocks away of a tree that fell during Hurricane Sandy.
One Way - After Sandy Size: 10.5 x 10.25 x .5 inches In this piece also molded from the cross section of a tree using handmade recycled paper. The oil painting is what happened on the corner during Hurricane Sandy.