Location: United States
Abby Levine was born in Newark, NJ in 1955. Her mother was a Kindergarten teacher and there were always art materials in the house. A solitary child, Abby spent most of her time reading and drawing.
With time, Abby's interests expanded to encompass mythology, popular culture, film, and politics---systems that people have created to explain the world around them. She attended Temple University, Tyler School of Art, graduating with honors in 1976, and has since pursued a career in visual art, working briefly as an illustrator in New York City and Seattle and exhibiting her work throughout the United States as well as Mexico and Canada.
In the mid-nineteen eighties Abby developed a technique of working in wood relief, using painted layered wood, often with the addition of wood-burning and carved elements. Using this technique, she produced over thirty pieces of commissioned artwork with leftist themes for a collector in Texas, where she resided for fifteen years. Commissions have always made up a large part of her output, and she has found them to be rewarding, enjoyable, and mind-expanding.
Current work combines political themes with increasingly abstract elements, exploring the relationship between human beings and the rest of the natural world.
Abby's work has been featured in numerous print and online publications, and her work has been purchased by clients in the United States, Europe, and Mexico. She received the Premio Arte in 2010, and a Union City Artists’ Award in 2012. Her work is in the collection of the William Musto Museum in Union City, New Jersey, where she currently resides.
These images include political, pop culture and abstract works. Pieces are constructed of various types of wood, cut out with a stationary scroll saw and/or carved using a Dremel. Layers are built up and painted and/or wood-burned.
2005, Acrylic on wood. 38" X 26" X 9". The title says it all.
This piece was done in 2011. It can be displayed free-standing or hung on a wall, as pictured. It is 38" X 26" x 12", made of wood, word-burned, and painted with acrylics.
This is an older piece, done in 2001 during the beginning of the War in Aghanistan. It addresses the connection between the oil industry and US involvement in the country.
It is about 30" X 28" X 9", made of wood, wood-burned and painted with Japan Color.
A piece about Jane Fonda's life. Done in 2009, made of wood ,wood-burned and painted with Japan Color. 18" X 18" X 2".
2010. The housing/credit crisis. Acrylic and wood-burning on wood, with rope and metal. The "blade" can be raised or lowered to bisect the house at bottom.
The Masons and their symbols. 2009, Japan Color and wood- burning on wood, 26" X 16" X 1.5".
The health care debate in the US Congress in 2010-11. Acrylic and wood-burning on wood, 13" X 9" X 2"
Religious warfare: warriors, weapons and gods. 2010, Acrylic and wood-burning on wood, 32" X 28" X 8"
The State of Israel. A functional board game. 2009, Japan Color and wood-burning on wood, 28" X 26" X 4".
US exceptionalism. 2005, Enamel on carved wood, 26" X 28" X 9"
“One Throw Links up a Thousand Threads”
Freud interprets dreams. 38" X 43" X 4". Enamel on wood.
2012, Acrylic and enamel on wood, 18" X 24" X 2"
2012, Acrylic on Wood, 26" X 32" X 4"
2011, Acrylic on Wood, 16" X 22" X 3"
2012, Acrylic on wood, 15" X 15" X 2"
I occasionally paint in Acrylic and Gesso on board.
2011, 16 X 16", Acrylic on board
2011, 16 X 16", Acrylic on board
2011, Acrylic on Board, 16 X 16"
2011, Acrylic on Board, 16 X 16"
2011, Acrylic on Board, 16 X 16"
2011, Acrylic on Board, 16 X 16"
“Mommy and Grandma in the Kitchen”
2008, Gesso on Board, 16 X 16"
2008, Gesso on Board, 16 X 16"
2008, Gesso on Board, 16 X 16"
2008, Gesso on Board, 16 X 16"
The great Celia Cruz. 2009, Gesso on Board, 24 X 18"
2012, gesso on board, 24 X 18"
2009, Gesso on Board, 16 X 16"
2010, Collage on Board, 18 X 24"
Zappa and Sinclair Lewis. Digital Collage, 18 X 24"
2011, Mixed Media on Board, 18 X 24"
2010, Collage on Paper, 20 X 16"
2009, Mixed media on board, 16 X 16"
A tribute to my sister. 2009, Collage on paper, 8.5 X 11"
2009, Collage on Paper, 18 X 24"
2009, Collage on Cardboard, 8.5 X 11"
Spain, 2010
Spain, 2010
Coney Island, 2010
Union City, NJ, 2011
Weehawken, NJ. 2011
Weehawken, NJ, 2011
Union City, NJ, 2011
Union City, NJ, 2011
Union City, NJ 2011
“Cake Topper Michael and Paul (front)”
Acrylic on Wood, 6 X 6 X 3"
“Cake Topper Michael and Paul (back)”
Acrylic on Wood, 6 X 6 X 3"
8 X 4 X 3" Acrylic on Wood
“cake topper Amy and Rodger (front)”
Acrylic on Wood, 6" X 6" X 3"
“Cake Topper Chief Gus (front)”
Acrylic on Wood, 5 X 4 X 4"
“Cake Topper Carol and Mark (front)”
Acrylic on Wood, 7 X 6 X 5"
“Cake Topper Ellen and Kraig (front)”
Acrylic on Wood, 9 X 6 X 4"
For Navayana Press, Delhi, India 2010, Acrylic and Wood-burning on Wood, 12 X 12"
“Take Time for the Important Things”
For a charter school in New Mexico, Acrylic on Wood, 2005, 25" Diameter
For a Charter School in New Mexico, 2005, Acrylic on Wood, 29 X 36"
For a Charter School in New Mexico, Acrylic on Wood, 28 X 28"
For a Charter School in New Mexico, Acrylic on Wood, 24 X 24"
“Diminished Expectations”
“Capitalist Cosmology”
“Afghan Poppy”
“Lady Jane”
“The New Guillotine”
“On the Money”
“Health Care Retablo”
“Opium of the People”
“The Great Game”
“Entitled”
“Burgess Shale”
“Nematode Jazz”
“Fission”
“Animalia”
“Angela Davis”
“Paul Robeson”
“Emma Goldman”
“Rigoberta Menchu”
“Allen Ginsberg”
“Cesar Chavez”
“Grandma and Grandpa”
“In My Room”
“Sol”
“Celia in Havana 2”
“Celia in Havana 3”
“Celia in Havana 1”
“Mambo”
“It is Happening Here”
“Dreaming of DeKooning”
“Hermetic Androgyne”
“Celia's Song”
“Miriam Sue”
“Electric Chair”
“Industrial Bambi”
“Tourist Mannequin”
“Holy Gold”
“Take a Chance”
“Coney Island Fellini”
“Manet at Coney Island”
“Ghost”
“Asphalt Painting”
“Fourth of July”
“Found Rauschenberg”
“Pink Cube”
“Pink Crack”
“Cake Topper Rachel and Doug”
“Cake Topper Rachel and Doug (back)”
“Cake topper Amy and Rodger (back)”
“Cake Topper Chief Gus (back)”
“Cake Topper Carol and Mark (back)”
“cake Topper Ellen and Kraig (back)”
“BH Ambedkar”
“Learning and Playing”
“Rainbow”
“Share”
