Daniel Levine

Daniel Levine was born in New York City in 1959. He earned a BFA in 1981 and an MFA in 1983 from the State University of New York at Buffalo. At that time, he became involved with Buffalo galleries that gave him solo exhibitions: Hallwalls in 1979 and 1981, and CEPA Gallery in 1982. In years that followed, he had nine solo exhibitions at various galleries in New York, New York, as well as one in Houston, Texas and one in Oakland, California.

In addition to exhibiting his paintings in Europe and the United States since 1984, Levine curated Amerikarma for Hallwalls in 1989, exhibiting John Currin, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Cady Noland, Steven Parrino, Raymond Pettibon, Al Ruppersberg, Jim Shaw, and others. A few years earlier, he curated World View in 1985 for CEPA Gallery, exhibiting Jennifer Bolande, Peter Nagy, Richard Prince, Meyer Vaisman and others. In 2015, he curated Painters/Paintings for 57W57 ARTS in mid-town Manhattan. It featured artists whose works aligned with his aesthetic, including Helmut Federle, Paul Feeley, Ron Gorchoff, Marcia Haifif, Alfred Jensen, Phil Sims, Peter Tollens, John Zurier, along with one of his own black monochromatic paintings.

He was the recipient of a Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant in 1989 and a New York Foundation for the Arts grant in 1989. His work is represented in the Panza Collection (subsequently acquired by the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo), The Museo Cantonale d'Arte, Lugano, Switzerland; Museum of Contemporary Art, Tucson; and private collections in Europe and the United States. In 1993, the Burchfield Penney Art Center acquired Wheeler (Colorado), a 1987 mixed media work comprised of a small photograph collaged with enamel and graphite on a steel base resembling a canvas. It was purchased with funds from M&T Bank in a special program to support artists by acquiring signature works for the Burchfield Penney’s collection and to preview the works in an exhibition at M&T Bank before they take residence at the museum. In 2012, Tony Bannon and Elizabeth Black Stewart donated Fighting Dogs #8 (1982), a sizable enamel on paper painting that hung in his director’s office, humorously intended to reflect meetings held within.

(NW 2022-01-24)

For his website, go tohttps://daniellevine.name/?fbclid=IwAR3lhDObYVh9MzROZ0EhdQAHISvaszeDSXH-Z2cnX7e7F4VuNM0eXRJyT3k and for remembrances, go to https://twocoatsofpaint.com/2022/03/daniel-levine-1959-2022.html