About the Artist Laura Levine

… “Laura Levine borrows from several different traditions of landscape painting to come up with her own hybrids. The light in her paintings derives from a long tradition of realist painting in America, dating back to the American Impressionists in the late 19th century. Certain passages of these oils have the feel of watercolors.
For the most part, Levine’s work consists of straightforward landscape scenes, but she does offer us one interesting twist: In “Spring” we find the upper left quadrant a complications of the space, a clear reference to the protocubist space created by Paul Cézanne nearly a century ago. Here Levine paints a series of trees that break up the space vertically. We expect the space behind the trees to be unified and continuous, but each interstice is different, creating a spatial fragmentation.
This subtle complication makes what seems simple, actually rather complex, and demands more of our attention than we anticipate.” …