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[[Alan McLeod McCulloch|McCulloch]] in 2006 characterised 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>''
[[Alan McLeod McCulloch|McCulloch]] in 2006 characterised 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 1980 after her husband accepted a professorship at the University of Sydney, Leveson relocated from Melbourne to Sydney, converting an old factory in Balmain for a large studio.<ref>{{Cite news |last=McIntyre |first=Arthur |date=24 Sep 1982 |title=Melbourne's loss is Sydney's gain : Interview |pages=14 |work=The Age}}</ref>


== Exhibitions ==
== Exhibitions ==

Revision as of 06:23, 5 April 2022

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 (born 1944, Melbourne) is an Australian painter, printmaker, and teacher.[1]

Training

From 1959 to 1963 Leveson studied at Caulfield Institute of Technology, then at the National Gallery School 1959-63 before overseas study 1974 and 1976.[2][3]

Career

In the 1960s Leveson adopted a geometric Op Art style in her early screen prints.[4][5][6] 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."[7]

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.'[8] That emphasis led her American Abstract Expressionist-influenced works of the 1970s, and first seen in Sydney in 1972[9] at The Holdsworth Galleries,[10] which in turn was adapted to her semi-abstract representation of expansive Australian landscape.[11]

Paul Taylor noted that at her 1977 retrospective at the University of Melbourne Gallery, Leveson "juxtaposed gestural strokes with the screenprint grid and also painted with the pinks and the greens of the lyrical palette."[12]

Sasha Grishin, in 1978, reacted with a contrary view of her participants works at Susan Gillespie Galleries, Canberra; "Sandra Leveson's suite of four screenprints, 'Half Moon Bay' Nos | to 4, with its juxtaposition of photographic seascapes and soft pastel-like backgrounds, leads to nowhere and is executed with a professional slickness that leaves one uneasy."[13]

McCulloch in 2006 characterised her style as "coolly restrained abstracts, which are often characterised by pastel blues and pinks divided by a horizon-like line."[14]

In 1980 after her husband accepted a professorship at the University of Sydney, Leveson relocated from Melbourne to Sydney, converting an old factory in Balmain for a large studio.[15]

Exhibitions

Solo

Leveson achieved early recognition and from 1967, then aged 23,[16] she held a series of solo shows in Melbourne's Realities[17] and Greythorn,[18] and at Macquarie Galleries in Sydney.[19][20] Others include;

  • 1972, March: Holdsworth Art Gallery[7]
  • 1974, February: Bonython Art Gallery, Sydney[21][22]
  • 1977, 26 April - 3 June: A Decade of Sandra Leveson, Melbourne University[23]
  • 1978, 4–18 August: Paper Works, with Peter Powditch, Powell Street Gallery[24]
  • 1994: New England Regional Art Museum 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[25]
  • 1995: Wagga Wagga City Art Gallery
  • 1995, June: Sandra Leveson : Impressions of the Landscape, Greythorn Galleries, Toorak[18]
  • 1996: A Decade of Sandra Leveson 1986-1996, BMG Art Gallery, Adelaide[26]
  • 2011: Sandra Leveson : painting of poise and passion, TarraWarra Museum of Art[27]
  • 2015: Sandra Leveson : painting of poise and passion, Macquarie University. Art Gallery[28]

Group

  • 1971: A Decade of Australian Painting, McClelland Gallery 1971
  • 1973: Georges Invitation Art Prize
  • 1978, 12–22 December: Works on paper with Barbara Campbell, Sandra Leveson, Kate Briscoe, Jenny Watson and Mandy Martin. Susan Gillespie Galleries, Manuka[13]
  • 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[29]
  • 2012, 5 April to 3 May: Less is more - more or less, with George Baker, Malcolm Benham, Virginia Coventry, Elizabeth Cummings, Margaret Dredge, Ruth Faerber, Vivienne Ferguson, Victor Greenaway, Steve Harrison, Anna Herold Pola, Jenny Herbert-Smith, David Horton, Melanie Howard, Tim Maguire, Frank Marinelli, Russell McQuilty, Miranda Parkes, Robyn Quinn, Peggy Randall, Jai Smith, Carly Snoswell, Daniel Templeman, Aida Tomescu, Shoalhaven City Arts Centre[30]

Commissions

Teacher

While resident at 23 Tennyson Street, Sandringham,[32] where she was photographed in 1970 by Paul Cox (lecturer at Prahran College) with her then husband Ken,[33] Leveson taught printmaking at Brighton Technical College. From 1970 to 1982 she lectured in Fine Art at the Prahran College of Advanced Education[34] where she was Head of printmaking 1972–82.[35][32] In Sydney Prahran College graduate Carol Jerrems made a sequence of photographs of her in 1974 for A Book About Australia Women.[36]

Awards

  • 1971: Corio Prize
  • 1972: Alice Prize
  • 1972: Trustees Award, Queensland Art Gallery[37]
  • 1975: Tasmanian Art Prize

Collections

References

  1. ^ [Sandra Leveson : Australian Art and Artists file], retrieved 3 April 2022
  2. ^ Drury, Nevill (1994). Images 2: contemporary Australian painting. East Roseville: Craftsman House. ISBN 978-976-8097-69-9. OCLC 932313824.
  3. ^ Germaine, Max (1991). A dictionary of women artists of Australia. Roseville East, NSW, Australia; New York, NY: Craftsman House ; STBS Ltd. [distributor. ISBN 978-976-8097-13-2. OCLC 26591029.
  4. ^ a b Leveson, Sandra (1970). "No. 1 Print, screen print". National Gallery of Australia. Retrieved 3 April 2022.
  5. ^ a b Leveson, Sandra (1970). "Optic series D 1972". Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art. Retrieved 3 April 2022.
  6. ^ Burke, Janine (1990). Field of vision: a decade of change : women's art in the seventies. Ringwood, Vic., Australia: Viking. OCLC 1035485995.
  7. ^ a b Faerber, Ruth (2 March 1972). "Entertainment and the Arts —Looking In-Looking Out". The Australian Jewish Times. p. 6.
  8. ^ The Sun, 20 November 1968, p23
  9. ^ Lynn, Elwyn (4 March 1972). "Posters as art..." The Bulletin. 094 (4796): 36.
  10. ^ "Listings : Art". The Bulletin. 096 (4891): 42. 2 February 1974.
  11. ^ Ivory, Helen; Leveson, Sandra (1993). Sandra Leveson. East Roseville, NSW, Australia; New York, NY: Craftsman House ; STBS Ltd. [distributor. OCLC 1202224003.
  12. ^ Taylor, Paul (1984). Anything goes: Australian art and art criticism 1970-1980. Melbourne: Art & Text : Distributed by Kingfisher Books. p. 72. ISBN 978-0-9591042-0-2. OCLC 28991135.
  13. ^ a b Grishin, Sasha (20 December 1978). "Varied quality from five women artists". The Canberra Times. p. 26.
  14. ^ 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.
  15. ^ McIntyre, Arthur (24 September 1982). "Melbourne's loss is Sydney's gain : Interview". The Age. p. 14.
  16. ^ "Around the Galleries". The Australian Jewish News. 8 October 1976. p. 13.
  17. ^ "Around the Galleries". The Australian Jewish News. 15 December 1972. p. 23.
  18. ^ a b "Advertising". The Australian Jewish News. 16 June 1995. p. 26.
  19. ^ Leveson, Sandra; Macquarie Galleries (1989). Sandra Leveson. Sydney: Macquarie Galleries. ISBN 978-1-875365-00-5. OCLC 220431481.
  20. ^ Bottrell, Fay; Stacey, Wesley (1977). The artist craftsman in Australia. Ultimo, N.S.W.: Murray. ISBN 978-0-909950-64-4. OCLC 29005292.
  21. ^ "Bulletin Briefing : Art". The Bulletin. 096 (4893): 56. 16 February 1974.
  22. ^ Faerber, Ruth (21 February 1974). "Art : Moon Goddess". The Australian Jewish Times. p. 16.
  23. ^ Leveson, Sandra; University of Melbourne; University Gallery (1977). Sandra Leveson: 1967-77. Melbourne: University Gallery, University of Melbourne. OCLC 272523444.
  24. ^ "Paper Works". The Australian Jewish News. 4 August 1978. p. 37.
  25. ^ 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.
  26. ^ Leveson, Sandra; BMGArt (Gallery) (1996). Sandra Leveson: decade of Sandra Leveson, 1986-1996. Adelaide: BMG Art. OCLC 222171367.
  27. ^ Leveson, Sandra; TarraWarra Museum of Art (2011). Sandra Leveson: painting of poise and passion. Healesville, Vic.: TarraWarra Museum of Art. OCLC 773612209.
  28. ^ 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.
  29. ^ 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.
  30. ^ a b Dingle, Max; Shoalhaven City Arts Centre (Nowra, N.S.W.) (2012). Less is More - More or Less: from the M G Dingle & G B Hughes Collection. Nowra, N.S.W.: Shoalhaven City Arts Centre. ISBN 978-0-646-57149-2. OCLC 785984364.
  31. ^ Veitch, Carol (30 August 1978). "Melbourne's paintings on wheels : When the decorated trams take to the tracks more than a few heads will turn". The Australian Women's Weekly: 31.
  32. ^ a b De_Groen, Geoffrey; Mackinnon, Leah (1978). Conversations with australian artists. Melbourne: Quartet Melbourne. ISBN 978-0-908128-00-6. OCLC 963500747.
  33. ^ "Sandringham (Tony Ward, Ingrid, Sandra Leveson, Ken Leveson, Jan Hurrell)". www.mga.org.au. Retrieved 3 April 2022.
  34. ^ "Art at College". The Australian Jewish News. 7 November 1975. p. 23.
  35. ^ 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.
  36. ^ Fraser, Virginia; Jerrems, Carol (1974). A Book about Australian women. North Fitzroy, Vic.: Outback Press. ISBN 978-0-86888-007-5. OCLC 1365981.
  37. ^ "In Brief". The Canberra Times. 13 October 1972. p. 3.
  38. ^ "Dionysus, 1975-1976 by Sandra Leveson". www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au. Retrieved 3 April 2022.
  39. ^ 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)
  40. ^ "A Lasting Impression". ICCSydney. Retrieved 3 April 2022.
  41. ^ "Bulletin Briefing : Art". The Bulletin. 096 (4897): 49. 16 March 1974.
  42. ^ "Newcastle Art Gallery". newcastle-collections.ncc.nsw.gov.au. Retrieved 3 April 2022.
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