Marty Levenson is a painter, printmaker, and art therapist born in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1953. He studied ceramics at Franconia College, New Hampshire, where he received a Bachelor of Arts in 1976 , at Emily Carr College of Art and Design, Vancouver, in 1982, and at the Vancouver Art Therapy Institute in 1996.
Scope and content
The work consists of twenty-eight pages of charcoal pencil and watercolour paint on paper, in a spiral bound book, entitled "Hold," 1997.
Note
The artist stated "For submission to 'Artropolis '97' I have chosen my most recent sketch book as a container of a series of images. Sketching is the location of a gentle privacy; a place to facilitate breathing in the space between personal urges, responses, and the need to be concrete, certain. It is also a place to allow a flow of thoughts and connections, to shrug off interpretation and judgment, and to simply see what images feel true. It is a place to HOLD serious play. I have resisted the urge to edit, to tear out overworked pictures and false starts, as each painting is valued simply for bringing me to the next image."
