About the Artist
Laura Levine
Artists’ Statement
Color and movement are key components in my paintings. I build my pieces with carefully selected pigments and rhythms which are my most honest responses both visually and emotionally. My goal is to create exciting and expressive paintings that draw-in and delight my viewers the same way I was drawn to my motif.
“You make paint so excited to ride your brush. Thanks for highlighting my decade with your wildly inspirational work," said a recent visitor to my site.
I joyously try to approach each painting as if it were my very first, with openness and freshness. And each time I complete a painting I feel it is my best.
Biography
Laura Levine was born in 1956 in New York City. She received her BFA from SUNY at Purchase, NY. She furthered her training in NYC at the New Brooklyn School of Life Drawing Painting and Sculpture later to become the NY Academy of Art. Both of these institutions were just being established giving her the pleasure of studying with inspired enthusiastic teachers as well as helping forge the way for the students that followed.
She received a solid background in art at Purchase opening her eyes to a myriad of ideas and techniques that she eagerly absorbed. At the New Brooklyn School, she studied the teachings of Charles Hawthorne from the Cape Cod School of Art. This training profoundly changing the way she painted. She spent decades exploring these theories while infusing her point of view. The product is a hybrid of observation and expression. Her goal is to create exciting paintings that moves her viewers.
Living on the Connecticut shoreline for over 30 years, she has been inspired by the varied landscape from the marshes and seascapes to the farms and blossoms. She also regularly visits Cape Cod where she paints on location gathering sketches and ideas. She often uses these studies to create larger more involved pieces in her studio. She finds the crisp light at Cape Cod like nowhere else and the views wildly inspiring. She understands why artists over the generations have painted there and relishes in the historical camaraderie.
Levine’s paintings have been featured in numerous exhibitions at galleries, museums and cultural centers throughout the Northeast. Her paintings are also included in many private collections worldwide.
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Selected Solo Exhibitions
Finer Line Gallery, Mystic, CT, 2026
Cad Red Studio, Provincetown, MA, 2025
Gallery 444, Provincetown, MA, 2022, 2023, 2024
“Moore Meadow and More”, The Gallery at the Wauregan, Norwich, CT, 2013
“Still Life to Still Waters”, Cora E. McLaughlin Gallery, Convent of the Sacred Heart, Greenwich, CT, 2013
“Along the Perimeter”, The Gallery at the Wauregan, Norwich, CT, 2012
“Connecticut Marshlands”, The Gallery at the Wauregan, Norwich, CT, 2011
Selected Juried Exhibitions
"New England Landscape", Lyme Art Association, Old Lyme, CT, 2026
"This Land is Your Land, Lyme Art Association, Old Lyme, CT, 2026
"Ship to Shore, Lyme Art Association, Old Lyme, CT, 2026
"Expanding Visions, Lyme Art Association, Old Lyme, CT, 2026
"Spring Juried Show - Floral Theme", Essex Art Association, Essex, CT 2026
"Summer Juried Show - open theme", Essex Art Association, Essex, CT 2026
"2026 Annual Members and Elected Artists Juried Exhibition", Mystic Museum of Art, Mystic, CT 2026
"Going Places", Mystic Museum of Art, Mystic, CT 2025
"National Open Juried Exhibition", CT Women Artists, The William Benton Museum of Art, UCONN, Storrs, CT, 2025
"Members' Juried Show", CT Women Artists, The Art League of New Britain, 2025
"Influence of Light", CT Women Artists, small works juried exhibition, West Hartford, CT, 2025
“The Crossing”, Hygienic Art, New London, CT. Juror: Charles Reyburn, March 11th, 2023 – April 22nd, 2023
“Faber Birren Color Show 2022”, Townhouse Gallery, Stamford, CT. Juror: Laura G. Einstein, Dec. 11, 2022 – Jan. 19th, 2023
“Winter 2023 Juried Exhibition”, Blue Mountain Gallery, New York, NY. Juror: Eric Holzman, January 3-28. 2023
“Historic Grounds & Modern Gardens” Lockwood-Mathews Mansion, juried, curator: Gail Ingis, Norwalk, CT, 2019
“Wide Open 8” Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition, juried exhibition, Brooklyn, NY, 2017. Curator: Cara Manes,
Curator of Painting, Museum of Modern Art, New York.
“After Hopper” Addison Gallery, Orleans, MA, 2015. Curator: Helen Addison.
“Between the Bridges”, Hygenic Gallery, New London, CT 2015. Juror: D. Samuel Quigley.
“Thank You CT”, Fernando Luis Alvarez Gallery, Stamford, CT, 2014. Juror: Anthony Haden-Guest.
“In the Pink” group exhibition, The Gallery at Firehouse Square, New London, CT, 2012, 2013
“Still Life Territory” The Silo Gallery, New Milford, CT. 2010. Curator: Valerie Culbertson. Juror: Bob Lenz
Selected Invitational Exhibitions and Events
Plein Air Competition, Perkins Cove, Maine, 2026
Plein Air Competition, Mystic Seaport Museum, Mystic, CT, 2026
Plein Air Competition, Mystic, CT, 2026
Plein Air Competition, Lyme Art Association, Old Lyme, CT, 2026
Plein Air Competition, Clinton Art Association, Clinton, CT, 2026
“Summer Exhibition”, Chamard Vineyards, Clinton, CT, 2020, 2021
“Members’ Open- Freedom”, Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA, 2020
“Members’ Open- Small Works”, Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA, 2019
“Nature Calls for Calm” Ives Gallery, group exhibition, New Haven, CT, 2017
“After Hopper Painting Demonstrations”, Cape Cod Museum, Dennis, MA, 2015
“Featured Artist”, Geary Gallery, Darien, CT, 2014
“Op Sail 2012” – Plein Air Event, The Gallery at Firehouse Square, New London, CT, 2012
Education
State University of New York, College at Purchase, New York, BFA, 1977.
New Brooklyn School of Life Drawing, Painting and Sculpture, New York City, 1982-1983.
