Marion Lerner-Levine
London-born artist, MARION LERNER-LEVINE
studied painting and printmaking at the School of the Art Institute of
Chicago with Paul Wieghart, Laura Van Pappelendam, and Vera Berdich.
Her still-life paintings convey a sense of the magic and mystery of
objects as if seen through a looking-glass. Recent woodblock prints and
monotypes are concerned with pattern and structure in landscape and
city views.
Lerner-Levine has been honored by awards from the National Endowment
for the Arts, the Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation, New York
Foundation for the Arts and the American Academy& Institute of Arts
and Letters. Work is in the collections of the Brooklyn Museum,
Bellevue Hospital, U.S. State Department, the Sprint Collection,
Citibank, Bank of America and the Bates College Art Museum, Lewiston,
Maine. "Her paintings demonstrate "confidence in objects and a calm
contemplative delight in them. In their ordering, arrangement, and
reflection onto a painted surface they make us look at true objects -
things, as opposed to commmodities - anew." __ Anselm Hollo, in "The
Shelves of Paradise: A note on some paintings of Marion Lerner-Levine
(1979)
