Life and Work
Levin was born in Alexandria, Virginia, in 1969, and soon moved with her family to Miami, Florida. By the age of 11 she wanted to be a painter, and at the age of 14 she attended the fine arts summer program Belvoir Terrace in Lenox, Massachusetts. She graduated from the prestigious Miami highschool New World School of the Arts, and in 1990 graduated early with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
She moved to Italy to train under Classical Realism maestro Daniel Graves at the Florence Academy of Art. For three years she learned the techniques of European masters, and upon graduating joined the faculty to teach drawing and oil painting. She stayed at the academy for eight years. In 2005 she founded The New School of Classical Art (NSCA) in Providence, Rhode Island.
In search of subjects for her paintings, Levin's travels have taken her throughout the United States, Europe, the Middle East and South America.Her work is in the permanent collection of the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse, New York and The New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, Connecticut. She's been featured in Who's Who in American Art. She is represented by Eleanor Ettinger Gallery in New York City, the Bert Gallery in Providence, Rhode Island, and Principle Gallery in Alexandria, Virginia. She has professional relationships with John Pence Gallery in San Francisco and Saks Galleries in Colorado.
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