The Wagner College Department of Visual Arts is excited to be hosting Arch(itecture) Homages Meet Art Advocacy: Work and Words, a selection of works by abstract artist Helen Levin.
Wagner community members are invited to view the collection in the Wagner College Union Gallery, open every day from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., now through September 30. The gallery is free for all to attend.
In this new exhibit, Levin focuses on the importance of art and drawing practice in people’s lives. Levin’s recent paintings on canvas and paper got their inspiration from the exciting spaces, flow of light, angles and textures seen in contemporary architecture.
This exhibit also examines the artist’s drawing techniques, which she honed with adult students locally and then shared at M.I.T. in a course for students of architecture, urban planning and product design called “Accelerated Drawing and Visualization for the Design Process.” She then had an article supporting the importance of freehand drawing practice for architects’ training published in the M.I.T. Press publication, Leonardo, International Journal of Art, Sciences and Technology (2002). Handouts of this and other art advocacy pieces are shared with the public as part of the exhibit.
Abstraction is Levin’s dedication (she’s a formalist), rooted in some of the same philosophies as masters such as Cézanne, Matisse and Mondrian.
