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== Career ==
== Career ==
In the 1960s Leveson adopted a geometric [[Op art|Op Art]] style in her early screen prints.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1">{{Cite web |last=Leveson |first=Sandra |date=1970 |title=Optic series D 1972 |url=https://collection.qagoma.qld.gov.au/objects/13858 |access-date=2022-04-03 |website=Queensland Art Gallery {{!}} Gallery of Modern Art}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Burke |first=Janine |url=http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/22987043.html |title=Field of vision: a decade of change : women's art in the seventies |date=1990 |publisher=Viking |location=Ringwood, Vic., Australia |language=English |oclc=1035485995}}</ref> These established her as a colourist when in 1968 they first appeared at [[Pinacotheca, Melbourne|Pinacotheca Gallery]], Melbourne, in a joint show ''Recent prints' 18 – 29 November'' with Alan Warren.''<nowiki/>'<ref>The Sun, 20 November 1968, p23</ref>'' That emphasis led her [[Abstract expressionism|American Abstract Expressionist]]-influenced works of the 1970s, and first seen in Sydney in 1972<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Lynn |first=Elwyn |date=4 March 1972 |title=Posters as art... |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-1328840977 |journal=The Bulletin |volume=094 |issue=4796 |pages=36}}</ref> at The Holdsworth Galleries,<ref>{{Cite journal |date=2 February 1974 |title=Listings : Art |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-1379313559 |journal=The Bulletin |volume=096 |issue=4891 |pages=42}}</ref> which in turn was adapted to her semi-abstract representation of expansive Australian landscape''.''<ref>{{Cite book |last=Ivory |first=Helen |url=http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/30127657.html |title=Sandra Leveson |last2=Leveson |first2=Sandra |date=1993 |publisher=Craftsman House ; STBS Ltd. [distributor |location=East Roseville, NSW, Australia; New York, NY |language=English |oclc=1202224003}}</ref> [[Alan McLeod McCulloch|McCulloch]] characterises her style as "coolly restrained abstracts, which are often characterised by pastel blues and pinks divided by a horizon-like line."''<ref name=":2">{{Cite book |last=McCulloch |first=Alan |url=https://www.worldcat.org/title/new-mccullochs-encyclopedia-of-australian-art/oclc/80568976 |title=The new McCulloch's encyclopedia of Australian art |last2=McCulloch |first2=Susan |last3=McCulloch Childs |first3=Emily |date=2006 |isbn=978-0-522-85317-9 |language=English |oclc=80568976}}</ref>''
In the 1960s Leveson adopted a geometric [[Op art|Op Art]] style in her early screen prints.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1">{{Cite web |last=Leveson |first=Sandra |date=1970 |title=Optic series D 1972 |url=https://collection.qagoma.qld.gov.au/objects/13858 |access-date=2022-04-03 |website=Queensland Art Gallery {{!}} Gallery of Modern Art}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Burke |first=Janine |url=http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/22987043.html |title=Field of vision: a decade of change : women's art in the seventies |date=1990 |publisher=Viking |location=Ringwood, Vic., Australia |language=English |oclc=1035485995}}</ref> Of these reviewer Ruth Faerber wrote;<blockquote>"Sandra Leveson uses an optical off-register dot pattern to create moire patterned surfaces in lyrical romantic color. Built up with a minute pointilistic technique, large silkscreen prints in editions, single canvases and double-sided glass images conjure up drifting recangular and diamond forms, structured by strongly contrasting stable and strict borders of flat color. Skill and sensitivity are superbly combined in works of restful elegance."<ref name=":4">{{Cite news |last=Faerber |first=Ruth |date=2 March 1972 |title=Entertainment and the Arts —Looking In-Looking Out |pages=6 |work=The Australian Jewish Times |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-page29403754}}</ref></blockquote>Those works established her as a colourist when in 1968 they first appeared at [[Pinacotheca, Melbourne|Pinacotheca Gallery]], Melbourne, in a joint show ''Recent prints' 18 – 29 November'' with Alan Warren.''<nowiki/>'<ref>The Sun, 20 November 1968, p23</ref>'' That emphasis led her [[Abstract expressionism|American Abstract Expressionist]]-influenced works of the 1970s, and first seen in Sydney in 1972<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Lynn |first=Elwyn |date=4 March 1972 |title=Posters as art... |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-1328840977 |journal=The Bulletin |volume=094 |issue=4796 |pages=36}}</ref> at The Holdsworth Galleries,<ref>{{Cite journal |date=2 February 1974 |title=Listings : Art |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-1379313559 |journal=The Bulletin |volume=096 |issue=4891 |pages=42}}</ref> which in turn was adapted to her semi-abstract representation of expansive Australian landscape''.''<ref>{{Cite book |last=Ivory |first=Helen |url=http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/30127657.html |title=Sandra Leveson |last2=Leveson |first2=Sandra |date=1993 |publisher=Craftsman House ; STBS Ltd. [distributor |location=East Roseville, NSW, Australia; New York, NY |language=English |oclc=1202224003}}</ref> [[Alan McLeod McCulloch|McCulloch]] characterises her style as "coolly restrained abstracts, which are often characterised by pastel blues and pinks divided by a horizon-like line."''<ref name=":2">{{Cite book |last=McCulloch |first=Alan |url=https://www.worldcat.org/title/new-mccullochs-encyclopedia-of-australian-art/oclc/80568976 |title=The new McCulloch's encyclopedia of Australian art |last2=McCulloch |first2=Susan |last3=McCulloch Childs |first3=Emily |date=2006 |isbn=978-0-522-85317-9 |language=English |oclc=80568976}}</ref>''


== Exhibitions ==
== Exhibitions ==
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Leveson held a series of solo shows in Melbourne's [[Realities Gallery|Realities]] and Greythorn, and at [[Macquarie Galleries]] in Sydney.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Leveson |first=Sandra |url=https://www.worldcat.org/title/sandra-leveson/oclc/220431481 |title=Sandra Leveson |last2=Macquarie Galleries |date=1989 |publisher=Macquarie Galleries |isbn=978-1-875365-00-5 |location=Sydney |language=English |oclc=220431481}}</ref> Others include;
Leveson held a series of solo shows in Melbourne's [[Realities Gallery|Realities]] and Greythorn, and at [[Macquarie Galleries]] in Sydney.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Leveson |first=Sandra |url=https://www.worldcat.org/title/sandra-leveson/oclc/220431481 |title=Sandra Leveson |last2=Macquarie Galleries |date=1989 |publisher=Macquarie Galleries |isbn=978-1-875365-00-5 |location=Sydney |language=English |oclc=220431481}}</ref> Others include;


* 1972, March: Holdsworth Art Gallery<ref name=":4" />
* 1974, February: Bonython Art Gallery, Sydney<ref>{{Cite journal |date=16 February 1974 |title=Bulletin Briefing : Art |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-1379940306 |journal=The Bulletin |volume=096 |issue=4893 |pages=56}}</ref>
* 1974, February: Bonython Art Gallery, Sydney<ref>{{Cite journal |date=16 February 1974 |title=Bulletin Briefing : Art |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-1379940306 |journal=The Bulletin |volume=096 |issue=4893 |pages=56}}</ref>
* 1977, 26 April - 3 June: ''A Decade of Sandra Leveson'', Melbourne University<ref>{{Cite book |last=Leveson |first=Sandra |url=https://www.worldcat.org/title/sandra-leveson-1967-77/oclc/272523444 |title=Sandra Leveson: 1967-77. |last2=University of Melbourne |last3=University Gallery |date=1977 |publisher=University Gallery, University of Melbourne |location=Melbourne |language=English |oclc=272523444}}</ref>
* 1977, 26 April - 3 June: ''A Decade of Sandra Leveson'', Melbourne University<ref>{{Cite book |last=Leveson |first=Sandra |url=https://www.worldcat.org/title/sandra-leveson-1967-77/oclc/272523444 |title=Sandra Leveson: 1967-77. |last2=University of Melbourne |last3=University Gallery |date=1977 |publisher=University Gallery, University of Melbourne |location=Melbourne |language=English |oclc=272523444}}</ref>

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Sandra Leveson
File:Leveson at Balmain studio.jpg
Born1944 (age 79–80)
Melbourne, Australia
EducationCaulfield Institute of Technology, National Gallery School
Known forAbstract painting, printmaking

Sandra Leveson (b. 1944, Melbourne) is an Australian painter, printmaker, and teacher.

Training

From 1959-63 Leveson studied at Caulfield Institute of Technology, then at the National Gallery School 1959-63 before overseas study 1974 and 1976.[1]

Career

In the 1960s Leveson adopted a geometric Op Art style in her early screen prints.[2][3][4] Of these reviewer Ruth Faerber wrote;

"Sandra Leveson uses an optical off-register dot pattern to create moire patterned surfaces in lyrical romantic color. Built up with a minute pointilistic technique, large silkscreen prints in editions, single canvases and double-sided glass images conjure up drifting recangular and diamond forms, structured by strongly contrasting stable and strict borders of flat color. Skill and sensitivity are superbly combined in works of restful elegance."[5]

Those works established her as a colourist when in 1968 they first appeared at Pinacotheca Gallery, Melbourne, in a joint show Recent prints' 18 – 29 November with Alan Warren.'[6] That emphasis led her American Abstract Expressionist-influenced works of the 1970s, and first seen in Sydney in 1972[7] at The Holdsworth Galleries,[8] which in turn was adapted to her semi-abstract representation of expansive Australian landscape.[9] McCulloch characterises her style as "coolly restrained abstracts, which are often characterised by pastel blues and pinks divided by a horizon-like line."[10]

Exhibitions

Solo

Leveson held a series of solo shows in Melbourne's Realities and Greythorn, and at Macquarie Galleries in Sydney.[11] Others include;

  • 1972, March: Holdsworth Art Gallery[5]
  • 1974, February: Bonython Art Gallery, Sydney[12]
  • 1977, 26 April - 3 June: A Decade of Sandra Leveson, Melbourne University[13]
  • 1994 at NERAM with a tour of regional galleries
  • 1990: Exhibition of works by Sandra Leveson and David Van Nunen from the 1990 Artists' Camp organised by the Museums and Art Galleries of the Northern Territory[14]
  • 1995 at Wagga Wagga City Art Gallery;
  • 1996: A Decade of Sandra Leveson 1986-1996, BMG Art Gallery, Adelaide[15]
  • 2011: Sandra Leveson : painting of poise and passion, TarraWarra Museum of Art[16]
  • 2015: Sandra Leveson : painting of poise and passion, Macquarie University. Art Gallery[17]

Group

  • 1971: A Decade of Australian Painting, McClelland Gallery 1971
  • 1973: Georges Invitation Art Prize
  • 1983: Australian Screenprints, touring state and regional galleries
  • 1988: Aspects of Australian Art, Houston International Festival exhibition, Houston, 1988
  • 1988: Contemporary views of New England : Cressida Campbell, Sandra Leveson, Max Miller, Angus Nivison, Ann Thomson, Guy Warren[18]

Commissions

  • 1978: Print Council of Australia patron print 1978: painted tram, Victorian Art Board
  • 1988: Bicentennial Darling Harbour Project

Teacher

While resident at 23 Tennyson Street, Sandringham,[19] Leveson taught printmaking at Brighton Technical College and lectured in Fine Art at the Prahran College of Advanced Education 1970-1982 where she was Head of printmaking 1972-82.[20][21]

Awards

  • 1971: Corio Prize
  • 1972: Alice Prize
  • 1972: Trustees Award, Queensland Art Gallery[22]
  • 1975: Tasmanian Art Prize

Collections

References

  1. ^ Drury, Nevill (1994). Images 2: contemporary Australian painting. East Roseville: Craftsman House. ISBN 978-976-8097-69-9. OCLC 932313824.
  2. ^ a b Leveson, Sandra (1970). "No. 1 Print, screen print". National Gallery of Australia. Retrieved 3 April 2022.
  3. ^ a b Leveson, Sandra (1970). "Optic series D 1972". Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art. Retrieved 3 April 2022.
  4. ^ Burke, Janine (1990). Field of vision: a decade of change : women's art in the seventies. Ringwood, Vic., Australia: Viking. OCLC 1035485995.
  5. ^ a b Faerber, Ruth (2 March 1972). "Entertainment and the Arts —Looking In-Looking Out". The Australian Jewish Times. p. 6.
  6. ^ The Sun, 20 November 1968, p23
  7. ^ Lynn, Elwyn (4 March 1972). "Posters as art..." The Bulletin. 094 (4796): 36.
  8. ^ "Listings : Art". The Bulletin. 096 (4891): 42. 2 February 1974.
  9. ^ Ivory, Helen; Leveson, Sandra (1993). Sandra Leveson. East Roseville, NSW, Australia; New York, NY: Craftsman House ; STBS Ltd. [distributor. OCLC 1202224003.
  10. ^ a b c d e McCulloch, Alan; McCulloch, Susan; McCulloch Childs, Emily (2006). The new McCulloch's encyclopedia of Australian art. ISBN 978-0-522-85317-9. OCLC 80568976.
  11. ^ Leveson, Sandra; Macquarie Galleries (1989). Sandra Leveson. Sydney: Macquarie Galleries. ISBN 978-1-875365-00-5. OCLC 220431481.
  12. ^ "Bulletin Briefing : Art". The Bulletin. 096 (4893): 56. 16 February 1974.
  13. ^ Leveson, Sandra; University of Melbourne; University Gallery (1977). Sandra Leveson: 1967-77. Melbourne: University Gallery, University of Melbourne. OCLC 272523444.
  14. ^ a b Leveson, Sandra; Van Nunen, David; Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory (1991). Artists in Kakadu, 1990. Darwin: Museums and Art Galleries of the Northern Territory. OCLC 951486757.
  15. ^ Leveson, Sandra; BMGArt (Gallery) (1996). Sandra Leveson: decade of Sandra Leveson, 1986-1996. Adelaide: BMG Art. OCLC 222171367.
  16. ^ Leveson, Sandra; TarraWarra Museum of Art (2011). Sandra Leveson: painting of poise and passion. Healesville, Vic.: TarraWarra Museum of Art. OCLC 773612209.
  17. ^ Leveson, Sandra; Hargraves, Kate; Janiszewski, Leonard; Pinson, Peter; Macquarie University; Art Gallery (2015). Sandra Leveson: paintings of poise and passion : 17 June-31 July 2015. ISBN 978-1-74138-433-8. OCLC 918906104.
  18. ^ Eisenberg, Joseph (1988). Contemporary views of New England: Cressida Campbell, Sandra Leveson, Max Miller, Angus Nivison, Ann Thomson, Guy Warren. Armidale: New England Regional Art Museum. ISBN 978-0-9592749-9-8. OCLC 222028410.
  19. ^ De_Groen, Geoffrey; Mackinnon, Leah (1978). Conversations with australian artists. Melbourne: Quartet Melbourne. ISBN 978-0-908128-00-6. OCLC 963500747.
  20. ^ Buckrich, Judith Raphael (2007). Design for living: a history of 'Prahran Tech'. Windsor, Vic.: Prahran Mechanics' Institute Press. ISBN 978-0-9756000-8-5. OCLC 225572527.
  21. ^ De_Groen, Geoffrey; Mackinnon, Leah (1978). Conversations with australian artists. Melbourne: Quartet Melbourne. ISBN 978-0-908128-00-6. OCLC 963500747.
  22. ^ "In Brief". The Canberra Times. 13 October 1972. p. 3.
  23. ^ "Dionysus, 1975-1976 by Sandra Leveson". www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au. Retrieved 3 April 2022.
  24. ^ corporateName=Commonwealth Parliament; address=Parliament House, Canberra. "About the Parliament House art collection". www.aph.gov.au. Retrieved 3 April 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  25. ^ "Bulletin Briefing : Art". The Bulletin. 096 (4897): 49. 16 March 1974.
  26. ^ "Newcastle Art Gallery". newcastle-collections.ncc.nsw.gov.au. Retrieved 3 April 2022.

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