Artwork from Jaynee Levy-Polis

JAYNEE LEVY-POLIS

Jaynee Levy-Polis is a classically-trained artist with a BFA from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and an M.Ed. She has been exhibiting her paintings since 1968.  Her work has been included in many galleries and exhibits, including the Tzigane Invitational Exhibit at the Resurgam Gallery in Baltimore, and the and the High Wire Gallery(2001), Synapses Gallery(2000), CCC Gallery(1998), Aslan Gallery and Ebullience Gallery, all in Philadelphia, Pa.

She is affiliated with Mother Artists, The Art Place Gallery in Philadelphia, Mountainesque Gallery in Alberta, Canada and Tzigane Fine Arts in Havre de Grace, Maryland. On-line, she is featured on www.About.com's New York East Village exhibit, and Libido Art's Classic Gallery. Jaynee was February's Philly Art World's Artist of the Month and the Philadelphia City Paper's Critic's Choice for her exhibit in November, 1999 at the Fetishes Art Gallery. She was awarded the Hannah Price Award in 1994 and the Elizabeth Simon Purchase Prize 1988.

 Artist’s Statement

  Since I was eight years old, I have wanted to paint.  I started art classes at 13 and never stopped painting.  I believe each person possesses a unique response to life and that it can be expressed in many ways, one of which is Art.  My creative method is to allow whatever I feel to rise to the surface and be expressed in my art.  I watch the painting form and coalesce on the canvas.  Without consciously drawing and designing, I paint in a kind of a trance. For about two years, my artwork focused on the sexuality of middle-aged average people.  That is continuing in my watercolor/pastels, but the direction of my oil paintings is veering toward abstraction.  I thrill to the excitement of creating, regardless of what develops on the canvas.  My painting is my personal adventure, my contribution to the world and what makes life interesting.

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