Ellen Levy

Ellen Levy
Born New York, New York
Residence New York, New York
Other names Ellen K. Levy
Education University of Plymouth, Ph.D., 2012; School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1981; Mount Holyoke College, B.A.
Known for artist exploring art and science interrelationships, collaborations with scientists, NASA artist in residence, past president of the College Art Association, former chair of Leonardo/ISAST’s LEAF initiative (Leonardo Education and Art Forum)
Website http://www.complexityart.com/

Ellen Levy, also known as Ellen K. Levy, is an American multimedia artist and scholar known for exploring art, science and technology interrelationships since the early 1980s. Levy works to highlight their importance through exhibitions, educational programs, publications and curatorial opportunities; often through collaborations with scientists including NASA, some in conjunction with Leonardo, the International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology. She is a past president of the College Art Association and has published widely on art and complex systems.

Education

She earned her doctorate from the University of Plymouth in 2012 on the study of art and the neuroscience of attention, and received her diploma in painting from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, following a BA from Mount Holyoke College in Zoology.[1]

Career

Levy, "whose fascination with technology is not only tinged by skepticism but also rivaled by an interest in the acts of God that are sometimes visited on grand technological schemes -- witness the Challenger," was one of the early artists commissioned by the NASA Art Program, in 1985.[2][3][4] Her early career focused on painting and exhibitions at then alternative science spaces such as the New York Academy of Sciences in 1984, NASA; and the National Academy of Sciences, and is also in their collection.[5][6] She has had numerous solo exhibitions in the United States and abroad, including at Associated American Artists[7] and Michael Steinberg Fine Arts in New York City.[8] Shared Premises: Innovation and Adaptation was exhibited at the National Technical Museum in Prague.[9] Her work was also included in the Second Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art exhibit, Petroliana (Oil Patriotism).[10][11]

Her talks and exhibitions explore attention, perception and the "relationships between science and art"[12][13] including: human error and inattention blindness in Stealing Attention;[14][15] interspecies coexistence in her show based on four decades of the magazine Skeptical Inquirer;[16] and in her New York Public Library site-specific exhibition Meme Machines, using mixed media to visualize cultural evolution and ways of creating and transmitting knowledge, [17][18] which was also the subject of an Art Talk interview with novelist Siri Hustvedt.[19]

Former chair of Leonardo/ISAST’s LEAF (Leonardo Education and Art Forum) initiative,[20] Levy co-directs, with Patricia Olynyk, the New York City-based Leonardo Art and Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER), part of Leonardo/ISAST's international program of evening gatherings that brings artists and scientists together for informal presentations and conversations.[21][22] A twice invited participant to The Watermill Center’s Art & Consciousness Workshop,[23] she was President of the College Art Association from 2004 to 2006,[24] Special Advisor on the Arts and Sciences at the Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts(IDSVA) from 2012 to 2017, and a Distinguished Visiting Fellow in Arts and Sciences at Skidmore College in 1999, a position funded by the Henry Luce Foundation.[25]

Levy has published in many books and journals including Leonardo/ISAST's journal Leonardo. Guest editor of the first widely-distributed, in-depth academic publication about genomics and art in 1996, the College Art Association Art Journal's Contemporary Art and the Genetic Code included articles by Stephen J. Gould, Roald Hoffmann, Robert Root-Bernstein, Martin Kemp, and Dorothy Nelkin.[26]

Selected Bibliography

  • Monkey in the Middle: Pre-Darwinian Evolutionary Thought and Artistic Creation, Levy, with David E. Levy, in Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, volume 30, issue 1, pgs. 95–107,1986, doi:10.1353/pbm.1986.0092
  • Housing Nature, Levy, 1998, Associated American Artists; New York, New York; 1998
  • Ethics and the Visual Arts, Editors Elaine A. King, Gail Levin; September 21, 2010; Allworth Press; New York, New York; Ch. 16, ISBN 9781581158229
  • "Defining Life: Artists Challenge Conventional Classifications," chapter, Context Providers Conditions of Meaning in Media Arts, editors Margot Lovejoy, Christiane Paul, Victoria Vesna; March 2011; Intellect, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, ISBN 9781841503080
  • "Neuroscience and the Arts Today" in PAJ - Journal of Performance and Art, volume 35, issue 3, pp. 8–23, 2013, doi:10.1162/PAJJ-a-00157

References

  1. ↑ Carey, Brainard (January 6, 2016). "Interview: Ellen K. Levy". Praxis Interview Magazine, WYBC, Yale University. Yale Broadcasting Company. Retrieved 1 June 2018.
  2. ↑ Raynor, Viven (January 8, 1995). "ART; Worlds Falling Apart and Getting Hooked Up" (p. 13). The New York Times. Retrieved 14 August 2018.
  3. ↑ Schulman, Robert (1988). Visions of flight : a retrospective from the NASA Art Collection. United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). p. 29. Retrieved 1 October 2018.
  4. ↑ Marter, Joan (1987). "Ellen K. Levy". Arts Magazine. 61: 97–99. Retrieved 7 September 2018.
  5. ↑ Levy, Ellen K. "Mirrors and Reflections: A Personal Recolleciton". The Art Collection of the National Academy of Sciences. National Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 17 September 2018.
  6. ↑ "Genetic fruit, thoughtful trees: Academy treasures". newscientist.com. New Scientist. Retrieved 19 July 2018.
  7. ↑ Ebony, David. "David Ebony's Top Ten Ellen K. Levy at Associated American Artists". artnet.com. Artnet Worldwide Corporation. Retrieved 8 September 2018.
  8. ↑ Pearlman, Ellen. "Art Seen: Ellen K. Levy". brooklynrail.org. The Brooklyn Rail. Retrieved 31 May 2018.
  9. ↑ Robertson, Bruce (September 22, 2013). "Painting in the House of Solomon: Ellen K. Levy's Work Revisited". Women's Art Journal. Retrieved 9 August 2018.
  10. ↑ "Petroliana". newsgrist.typepad.com. Newsgrist - where spin is art. Retrieved 14 August 2018.
  11. ↑ Niedowski, Erika (March 25, 2007). "Artists take dissenting view of Russia's new oil riches". The Baltimore Sun. Retrieved 14 August 2018.
  12. ↑ "Ellen K. Levy Interview". vimeo.com pro, UCLA Art Sci Center and Lab. UCLA Art artsci.ucla.edu. Retrieved 17 September 2018.
  13. ↑ Reinert, Birgit (May 24, 2002). "Art Gallery: Culture in Mendel's Garden by Ellen K. Levy". J. Craig Venter Institute. Genome News Network. Retrieved 17 September 2018.
  14. ↑ Martinez-Conde, Susana (November 22, 2014). "Illusion Chasers: Artist Ellen Levy Steals Your Attention". Scientific American. Retrieved 1 June 2018.
  15. ↑ Corwin, William. "Truth in the Visual Arts Skepticism in the Work of Ellen K. Levy and Patricia Olynyk". brooklynrail.org/. The Brooklyn Rail. Retrieved 9 August 2018.
  16. ↑ G'Sell, Eileen. "Sumptuous Skeptics: Ellen K. Levy and Patricia Olynyk Stage Creative Inquisition". artefuse.com. Arte Fuse. Retrieved 1 June 2018.
  17. ↑ "Ellen K. Levy, Meme Machines, Art Wall on Third Exhibition Series". nypl.org. The New York Public Library. Retrieved 19 July 2018.
  18. ↑ Beckenstein, Joyce. "Neural Networks: Ellen K. Levy on her "Meme Machines" and the thinking behind them". artcritical.com. artcritical, LLC. Retrieved 8 September 2018.
  19. ↑ "Art Talks, Meme Machines, Siri Hustvedt, Ellen K. Levy, An Artist Dialogue Series Event". nypl.org. The New York Public Library. Retrieved 19 July 2018.
  20. ↑ "Leonardo Education and Art Forum Chair Ellen K. Levy". Leonardo. 43 (5): 518. 2010. doi:10.1162/LEON_a_00069.
  21. ↑ "LASER Talks in New York City". leonardo.info. Leonardo/The International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology (Leonardo/ISAST). Retrieved 1 June 2018.
  22. ↑ "Ellen Levy". creativedisturbance.org. Creative Disturbance, The University of Texas at Dallas,. Retrieved 10 August 2018.
  23. ↑ "The Annual Art and Science Insights into Consciousness Workshop". watermillcenter.org. The Byrd Hoffman Water Mill Foundation. Retrieved 10 August 2018.
  24. ↑ "About Presidents of the Board of Directors". collegeart.org. College Art Association. Retrieved 14 August 2018.
  25. ↑ Who's Who in Research : Visual Arts. Bristol, UK; Wilmington, NC: Intellect Books. May 2013. p. 179. ISBN 9781841504957. Retrieved 10 October 2018.
  26. ↑ Levy, Ellen (Spring 1996). "Contemporary Art and the Genetic Code". Art Journal. 55 (1): 7–16, 20–24. doi:10.1080/00043249.1996.10791734. JSTOR 777802.
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