Dana Levin

Catarina's Glance, 18 x 24, Charcoal

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” I want to create an image that offers an immediate visual impression, which slowly over time, unfolds on levels deeper than the surface of the canvas. I want to communicate a sense of poetry that allows viewers to access their imagination, to transcend their everyday lives, and to reconnect with the rest of humanity.

Dana grew up in Miami, FL. In high school she attended The New World School of the Arts and Belvoir Terrace, a summer program for gifted young women in Lenox, MA. She received a BFA from the acclaimed School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she learned to foster her creative thinking and apply that to her work. Finally, she traveled to Florence, Italy to study at the rigorous Florence Academy of Art and trained in the painting and drawing techniques of the Old Masters, where she subsequently taught for several years. Her private study of realism oil painting has taken her to museums throughout Europe, Britain, Russia, and across the United States.
Upon returning to the United States, Dana opened an atelier school, The New School of Classical Art, in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. It was closed in 2008 so she could devote herself full-time to painting. Dana has received awards and honors from prestigious national and international juried shows and museums. She is also included in important museum collections.

Dana Levin accepts commissioned painting requests. Commissioned portraits, still life, and landscape paintings in the Boston, New Hampshire, Connecticut, and Rhode Island areas. Arrangements for paintings from photographs can also be made.