Dana E. Levin

Contemporary Bert Gallery Artist

Born in Miami, Florida, in 1969; currently residing in Florence, Italy

Dana E. Levin was born in 1969 and grew up in Miami, Florida. Her formal art education began at age 16 while attending the New World School of the Arts in Miami. She graduated early from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago with a Bachelor of Fine Arts and has completed postgraduate studies with the Three year Certificate program at the Florence Academy of Art where she now teaches. She has traveled throughout the US, Eastern and Western Europe, the Middle East, and South America. Her awards and scholarships include: the Italian Cultural Institute of San Francisco (1996), The Art Renewal Center (2001 and 2002). Her work has been exhibited in Chicago, San Francisco, New York, and Rhode Island.

Levin says about her work: "Painting from nature is about the discovery of truth. Discovering beauty, discovering humanity. It explores our existence by giving body to ideas, through the undeceiving physicality of its subjects. I search for balance between drawing, light and composition, and the emotional significance of the subject, to create an image that offers an immediate visual impression, which slowly, over time, unfolds on levels deeper than the surface of the canvas."

Source: Realism Revisited: The Florence Academy of Art. Panorama Museum Bad Frankenhausen 2003.