Dana Levin is an established classical realism painter and shows her artwork regularly in gallery exhibitions. Her work is included in important collections, has won numerous awards, and has been published in major art magazines. She works in a range of genres and takes commissions for portrait and still life paintings. |
Self-portrait by Dana LevinAfter graduating from The Art Institute of Chicago in 1990, Dana Levin learned the Academic Painting techniques of the European masters at the Florence Academy of Art. She completed the rigorous three-year Florence Academy of Art curriculum and upon graduation was asked to join the school's drawing and painting faculty for the next five years. Ms. Levin is part of a Classical Realism lineage that connects her as an artist and teacher to Jean-Leon Gerome, The Boston School Painters, Tarbel, Paxton and Benson, Ives Gammel, Richard Lack, and her own maestro, Daniel Graves.
Dana Levin has been awarded numerous prizes and scholarships from organizations, which include the Italian Cultural Institute of San Francisco, the Art Renewal Center and the John F. and Anna Lee Stacey Fund. Her work has also been published in several prestigious catalogues, books, and magazines. Dana's painting Portait of a Young Man won the portrait category of The Artist's Magazine and will appear in the 2007 December issue. Her still lifes Orchids and Apples and Silent Still Life will be featured in the 2008 European and American editions of Who's Who in Visual Art 100 Artists. Dana is a member of the Oil Painters of America, The International Society of Realist Painters, and the International Guild of Realism.
In 2005 Dana Levin founded an ARC Approved atelier, The New School of Classical Art in Pawtucket, Rhode Island.
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