Dana E. Levin
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Dana Levin (born Dana Elizabeth Levin June 26, 1969, Alexandria, Virginia) is an American Classical Realism painter. Classical Realism is also known as academic art. Levin is a portrait, landscape, still life, figurative, and interior painter.
She works in the revival of the Classical Realism (arts) and representational painting tradition.
[edit] Life and work
At age 14, Levin attended the fine arts summer program in Lenox, Massachusetts, and in high school the New World School of the Arts in Miami, Florida. She continued her studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where her achievements earned her an early graduation[citation needed] with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree. Levin moved to Italy to train under painter Daniel Graves and learn the techniques of the European masters at the Florence Academy of Art for three years. On graduation she was asked to join the school’s drawing and oil painting faculty for the next five years.[citation needed] Levin has taught academic art and classical realism for eight years.
She works in still life, portrait painting, interiors, florals, and figure painting utilizing oil paint, charcoals, and graphite pencils.
In 2005, she founded The New School of Classical Art in Providence Rhode Island.[citation needed]
In an interview with Sherry Ross of the Art Renewal Center, Levin was described as "one of the heroines in the fight that is bringing the appreciation of realism back to us".[citation needed] The Banks Gallery of Portsmouth NH in a March 2007 show of Contemporary Female artists described Levin as an "internationally acclaimed artist", and "a leader of a new generation of classically trained academic painters".[citation needed]
