Painting is for me a non-verbal activity so whatever I write here is a rough translation and doesn't really touch the actual experience. I rely on the observable world and work toward finding something that resonates in what I see. Every painting takes me to a different place and I try to follow with a full heart. It is very common for me to work on a painting and at an impasse wipe it all down and work with the remaining ghosts of an image. The painting seems to dictate where it wants to go. What I work toward is for the painting to take me somewhere - not necessarily to the place I observe but to something elusive and keenly felt.
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H.M.Levan
hopemillerlevan@gmail.com
Instagram: hmlevan43
Solo Shows
2022 October (Name Pending) Church Street Gallery, West Chester PA
2020 October Reverent Poetics Church Street Gallery, West Chester PA
2018 Fifty Two Gmeiner Gallery, Wellsboro PA
2016 Witness Mark Gmeiner Gallery, Wellsboro PA
2014 Pins on a Map Gmeiner Gallery, Wellsboro PA
Juried and Group Shows
2022 Annual Juried Show Art of the State, State Museum, Harrisburg PA (opening September 11, 2020)
2019 Group Show Gmeiner Gallery, Wellsboro PA
2016 Annual Juried Show Chatauqua Institute, NY (juror, Jerry Saltz)
2013 Construction/Destruction Doshi Gallery, Harrisburg PA
1983 Group Show Anna Kemmerer Museum, Bethlehem PA
1983 Member Show Allentown Art Alliance (prize)
1985-2010
Partner LeVan Design
product design, graphic design
levandesign.com
Education
1978 BFA Painting, Philadelphia College of Art (honors, prize)
In my youth I believed in
somewhere else
I put faith in travel
now I am becoming my own tree
W.S.Merwin