Two Shapes Made with Lines, 2020 (detail view) India ink on rice paper 22 Ă— 18 1/2 in Three Shapes on a Page, 2020 Ink on printing paper 27 Ă— 35 in
The Shape of a Line: Cheryl Levin
Cheryl Levin began drawing and painting at the age of 12 when her father brought home a How to Draw Book with instructions showing how to draw a woman carrying a basket of fruit on her head. This was to become Levin’s subject matter in 1984 when she began painting people, portraits, and single-parent families after studying art in Rome, Italy. During her time abroad, she was greatly influenced by ancient Etruscan and Roman art. When her two children were young and family life became more complicated she turned to abstract art to conceptualize new realities. In 2012 after the death of her husband, artist blacksmith Robert Phillips, she began to produce art as a eulogy. Using “metal cutoffs” salvaged from Phillips’ studio, Levin moved his “remains around” to reorient herself through her grieving state and to organize chaos from death. She soon progressed to other formats, including installation pieces as an outgrowth from those works. Her work currently focuses on a search to develop a minimalist personal language to describe “the void” -(loss)- either individual or collective by beginning to incorporate the newfound knowledge that many family members were killed in the Holocaust.
Three Shapes on a Page, 2020 (detail view) Ink on printing paper 27 × 35 in
A Path with Ink Shaped at the Top, 2020 Ink on paper 35 Ă— 27 in
Journey with Red Lines, 2020 Ink on paper 33 × 26 22/25 in
Detail view
Two Shapes Made with Lines, 2020 India ink on rice paper 22 Ă— 18 1/2 in Red Inked with Black Shapes, 2020 India ink on paper 28 Ă— 20 3/4 in
Three Shapes Identified with a Dot, 2020 Ink on vellum 24 3/4 Ă— 30 1/2 in
Detail view
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The Courtyard by Marriott at the Navy Yard 1001 Intrepid Avenue Philadelphia, PA 19112 All works are available for purchase on Artsy.