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Biographical Information
Abby Levine was born in Newark, New Jersey in 1955. After graduating from Temple University with a B.F.A in 1976, she moved to New York City where she lived for the next five years. Subsequently, along with her companion Gary Buegel, she lived in Massachusetts and St. Louis, returning to New York City in 1985 where she began exhibiting her painting and sculpture and working as an illustrator. Commercial clients included Random House and CBS Records. Exhibits included shows at the Jim Diaz Gallery and SIXTOSIX Gallery and many group shows. A move to Seattle, where Abby worked as an illustrator and a banquet cook, was followed by a year on the road in search of the perfect place to live. She found that place in west Texas, which has been her home since 1991. Abby has shown her work in Texas at the Evans Gallery and the Chisos Gallery in Marathon and the Kiowa Gallery in Alpine and has participated in two-person shows at the Turquoise Door in Austin and the Anasazi (now Karen Mitchell Frank) Gallery in Dallas. She has sold work to clients in the U.S and abroad and done commissioned work for both individuals and organizations.

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Artistic Development
While a student at Temple University, Abby became involved with pattern and decoration, banding columnar stretched canvases with intense color. Figurative elements and narration began to work their way into the equation and, by the early 80’s, she was producing small paper mache dioramas based on Greek mythology. A move to the trash-strewn Williamsburg section of Brooklyn led to a preoccupation with architectural forms and the production of fragmented, constructed and reassembled wood structures painted in shades of white. Relocation to Seattle brought a reexamination of color and the use of dead-matte paint along with a continued development of wood construction techniques. The tension between the organic and manmade became a major focus. Since 1991, the narrative and architectural have again merged with the addition of pyrography (woodburning) as a linear device. The retention of architectural elements may be seen as well as references to furniture and religious constructions, with the overall form of the piece providing a metaphor for its content.

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Abby Levine
P.O Box 464
Marathon, Texas 79842
abby@abbyart.com

Born: January 3, 1955, Newark, New Jersey
Education: Tyler School of Art, Temple University, B.F.A. 1976

Exhibits
2003:
Marfa Studio of Art - Marfa, TX
Spirits in the Wind Gallery - Golden CO
Chisos Gallery - Marathon, TX
Kiowa Gallery - Alpine, TX
Jenssen Gallery - Terlingua, TX
Evans Gallery - Marathon, TX
Edmond-Craig Gallery - Ft. Worth, TX

2002-2003:
Hecho en Marfa - Marfa, TX
Spirits in the Wind Gallery - Golden CO
Chisos Gallery - Marathon, TX
Kiowa Gallery - Alpine, TX
Jenssen Gallery - Terlingua, TX
Evans Gallery - Marathon, TX
Edmond-Craig Gallery - Ft. Worth, TX

2001-2002:
Hecho en Marfa - Marfa, TX
Spirits in the Wind Gallery - Golden CO
New Dimensions Gallery - Tucson, AZ
Evans Gallery - Marathon, TX
Chisos Gallery - Marathon, TX
Kiowa Gallery - Alpine, TX
Jenssen Gallery - Terlingua, TX
Happy Trails - Palm Desert, CA
Edmond-Craig Gallery - Ft. Worth, TX

2000-2001:
Spirits in the Wind Gallery - Golden CO
New Dimensions Gallery - Tucson, AZ
Evans Gallery - Marathon, TX
Chisos Gallery - Marathon, TX
Kiowa Gallery - Alpine, TX
Jenssen Gallery - Terlingua, TX

1999-2000:
Karen Mitchell Frank Gallery - Dallas TX
Kiowa Gallery - Alpine, TX
Jenssen Gallery - Terlingua, TX
Chisos Gallery - Marathon, TX
Spirits in the Wind Gallery - Golden CO
New Dimensions Gallery - Tucson, AZ

1998-1999:
Waxlander Gallery - Santa Fe NM
Karen Mitchell Frank Gallery - Dallas TX
Pinnell Gallery - Fallbrook CA
Kiowa Gallery - Alpine, TX
Jenssen Gallery - Terlingua, TX
Chisos Gallery - Marathon, TX
Excelsior Gallery - Scottsdale, AZ

Specific Shows
10/28-11/12, ’03 DIA DE LOS MUERTES - Lawndale Art Center; Houston, TX

10/17- 3/8, ’04 INSTALLATION - Project Row Houses; Houston, TX

10/11-11-3,’03 ONE PERSON SHOW - Terlingua house Projects; Alpine, TX

7/25-8/17,’02 GROUP SHOW - Koelsch Gallery; Houston, TX

4/6 - 3/16,’ 03 COWBOY AT HEART - group show, Museum of Civilisation; Quebec City

10/28-11/12, ’02 DIA DE LOS MUERTES - group show, Lawndale Art Center; Houston, TX

4/6- 5/16,’02 TEXAS NATIONALS 2002 - group show, SFA State U.; Nacogdoches, TX

2/5-3/5, ‘02 POST 9/11 - group show, gallery 1313; Austin, TX

3/9-4/14, ‘01 ONE PERSON SHOW - Lawndale Art Center; Houston, TX

12/1- 1-31. ‘02 TWO PERSON SHOW - Gallery 1313; Austin, TX

10/28-11/12. ‘01 DIA DE LOS MUERTES - group show, Lawndale Art Center; Houston, TX

3/9-4/14, ‘01 ONE PERSON SHOW - Lawndale Art Center; Houston, TX

10/28-11/, 2000 DIA DE LOS MUERTES - Lawndale Art Center; Houston, TX

10/4-11/16,2000 WESTERN VISIONS REVISITED - Republic Plaza; Denver, CO

6/25-7/6, ‘99 REINVENTING THE WEST - group show, Kimball Art Center; Park City, UT

5/21-5/24 ,’ 99 OUTLAW ARTISTS - group show, Fallbrook Center for the Arts; Fallbrook, CA

5/1-6/1, ‘99 TWO PERSON SHOW - Karen Mitchell Frank Gallery; Dallas, TX

5/15-5/18,’98 OUTLAW ARTISTS - group show, Fallbrook Center for the Arts; Fallbrook, CA

12/6 97-1/6,’98 TWO PERSON SHOW - Anasazi Gallery; Dallas, TX

5/8- 5/17, ‘97 GROUP SHOW - Women and Their Work; Austin, TX

2/21-2/21,’97 TWO PERSON SHOW - Turquoise Door Gallery; Austin, TX
Previous shows upon request

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Articles

About Abby Levine at the Kiowa Gallery
"Exhibitionism" - Austin Chronicle, 1/18/02
"A Deeper Perspective" - Odessa American, 11/1/98
"The third dimension" - Austin American Statesman, 2/24/97

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