About Janet Levy
Janet Levy is a sculptor, her work focuses on the physical and conceptual exploration of stone: using primarily alabaster, onyx and marble, she creates abstract sculptural forms and installations; expressing an inherent desire to reveal what is concealed; She carves, binds, and hangs stone often combining with other materials such as rope, chain and metal. Drawing from inner tensions of opposing forces and emotional exchanges, She explores an enduring focus within her practice: to make the invisible visible. Referencing nature to convey the emotions of underlying pressures, sexuality, tensions and desires.
Levy is strongly influenced by music, dance and film and has recently in addition to sculpting included songwriting into her creative practices.
Janet Levy (Hermosa Beach, California) Lives and works in Los Angeles and Mexico City. Levy attended the Schule für Gestaltung in Basel in 1996. She has been awarded the FUKA-Fonds Grant from the City of Lucerne and the Arts Council Grant from Swiss canton of Obwalden. She has participated in numerous group exhibitions in USA and Switzerland including Los Angeles, Zurich, New York, Lucerne, and Cry Me A River, Prospect.3+, New Orleans and most recently her solo exhibition Butterfly Double at Museo de Geologia, UNAM, Mexico City
CURRICULUM VITAE
Janet Levy
b. 1959 (Hermosa Beach, California, USA)
Lives and works in Los Angeles, California
Education
1997-1998 School of Design Basel Switzerland (Sculpture)
1989-1998 Lived and work in Switzerland
1982-1985 California State University, Long Beach, Bachelor of Science in Business (Marketing)
1980-1982 El Camino College, Torrance, CA, Associate Arts Degree, Photography
Solo Exhibition
2021 Repeat, Haus ,Pecked, SWB Experimenthaus Zurich, Switzerland
2019 Love looks Like Fire, Ace Hotel Palm Springs and Ace DTLA, CA
2018 Butterfly Double, Museo de Geologia, UNAM, Mexico City, Mexico
1994 Janet Halter-Levy, Atles Zeughaus Sarnen, Switzerland, Steinskulpturengarten Gotti & Niederer, Lucerne, Switzerland
1993 Steinskulpturen, Galerie Palette, Zurich, Switzerland;
Janet Halter-Levy: Sculptures, Galerie Muhle Tiefenbrunnen, Zurich, Switzerland
Selected Group Exhibition
2020 Fire Ladders, Museo de Geologia, UNAM, Mexico City
2019 Twisted Two. Maya Fuhr and Janet Levy, Merchant Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2018 Incognito, Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles,
2017 Summer of Love, Wilding Cran Gallery curated by Jason Cavin, Los Angeles, CA
2015 The Mini Show, The Lodge, Los Angeles, CA
2014 Cry Me A River, Prospect.3 +, Etoile Polaire, New Orleans, LA
2011 Absurdism, Here is Elsewhere, West Hollywood, CA
2010 The Handmade, Esquivel, Los Angeles, CA
1996 Inbetween-Entremedio Kulturpanorama an Lowenplatz, Lucerne, Switzerland
1994 Janet Halter-Levy, Alex Born, Josef Pierre Fekete, Atles Zeughaus Sarnen, Switzerland
Unterwaldner Art, Atles Zeughaus Sarnen, Switzerland
Awards/Grants
2020 Grant Artists Fellowship. Inc, New York
1996 Grant FUKA-Fonds Culture Department City of Lucerne
1994 Grant Arts Council Canton of Obwalden
Residency
Feb. 2021 SWB Experimenthaus Neubühl, Zurich, Switzerland
Oct./Nov. 2020 Villa Rosa, Loco, Ticino, Switzerland
2018-2019 Ace Hotel Residency
London, Palm Springs and Los Angeles
Created new work, a book and two site specific installations
For Palm Springs in conjunction with the opening of Desert X
Bibliography/Reviews
June 2021 Janet Levy - SWB Experimental Haus Kunstbulletin
29 Apr 2021 Repeat: Sculptures by Janet Levy, Choreography by Diane Gemsch@ SWB Experimenthaus Zurich, Autre Magazine Daily Journal
11 Mar 2021 Garden Show, Ladies Room, Los Angeles Autre Magazine Daily Journal
7 Jan 2020 “Janet Levy’s Sexy Stones, Cathartic Carvings on Alabaster” Avery Wheless, Artillery
25 Nov 2019 Autre Daily Journal, Maya Fuhr & Janet Levy present Twisted Two
26 July 2019 Artist In-residence: Janet Levy presents Love Looks Like Fire, Ace Reader
6 Oct 2016 “The Mystical Art of Stone Carving/City of the Seekers” Tanja M. Laden, The Creators Project, Vice
4 Nov 2015 “Good Art Comes in Small Packages at LA Gallery’s Miniature Show” Abe Ahn, Hyperallergic
30 Sept 2015 “A Tiny Show of Very Miniature Works by Big Artists” Crystal Meers, The New York Times Style Magazine
26 Nov 2014 “In the Orbit of Prospect.3” John D’Addario, New Orleans Advocate
11 May 1993 “Steinskulpturen und-bilder” LNN NR.108
29 Jan 1996 “Rohe Steinbroken neben exakten Architecturbildern” Maria Vogel, Neue Luzerner Zeitung
21 April 1994 “Skulpturen” Eva Roelli, LNN Apero