Press | April 14, 2015

Fuco Ueda featured on Spoon & Tamago

 Surreal and Morbid Paintings of Women by Fuco Ueda The girls who appear in Tokyo-based artist Fuco Ueda’s paintings are, in a single word, mysterious. They appear in surreal situations and seem to embody complicated emotions like guilt, aggressiveness, independence, and a subtle seductive eroticism. The girls are often accompanied by colorful flora or fauna.... read more
Press | April 14, 2015

ROA featured on Huffpost Arts & Culture

A Visit With Street Artist ROA, Readying For ‘Metazoa’  By Jaime Rojo & Steven Harrington  Co-Founders, BrooklynStreetArt.com It’s unusual to capture a ROA inside. He is usually running free outdoors with the wildlife, climbing walls over multiple continents, perched within the industrialized margins of cities and rustling around the overgrown brush of rural regions. By... read more
Press | April 9, 2015

ROA featured on Animal New York

Street Artist ROA Invites the Public to Play with Animals in New Chelsea Exhibit By Aymann Ismail Belgian street artist ROA is known for creating massive murals of woodland creatures (and their anatomies) in cities all around the world. The gargantuan animals he inserts into gritty urban landscapes make for some very interesting juxtapositions. When... read more
Press | April 7, 2015

Jonathan LeVine Interview with Mass Appeal

 The Color and the Fury of Jonathan LeVine Words by Robert Aloia, Founder of Outlaw Arts First off, I had to ask, and it’s pronounced as spelled: LeVine not Levine. It’s not about pretension, it’s a family thing going back generations. Embarrassed to say, I had blanked on the 10-year retrospective, The Color And The... read more
Press | April 2, 2015

Gary Taxali Interview on Complex

In The Studio With Canadian ‘Pop Art’ Artist Gary Taxali By Christian Dare Few artists are able to create a balance between commercial work and fine art while also blurring the lines of both, but Canadian ‘pop art’ artist, Gary Taxali has built a successful international career out of it. This ‘blurred line’ helps him... read more
News | April 1, 2015

ROA – Work In Progress

On Saturday, April 4th, we will present Metazoa, a series of new works by Belgian artist ROA in what will be his debut solo exhibition at Jonathan Levine Gallery. You can watch below parts of the artist’s process in which he created all new works, painting on found objects he personally foraged and, like the... read more
Press | April 1, 2015

Doze Green in Hi-Fructose

  Hi-Fructose Volume 35 April 2015 Issue The golden figure in "Arawak" is large, both in size – the canvas is 40” x 30” – and presence.  Powerful, energetic sweeps of yellow and umber paint connect the bold geometry that comprises his body.  He is muscular, with neck and shoulders as large as a bull’s.... read more
News | April 1, 2015

Gary Taxali – Video Premiere

 The video: Gary Taxali: The Art of Whimsy, was premieried on March 28th at the Canadian Art Film Festival and documents the award-winning artist in his private workspace as he talks about the aged-quality, texture and timelessness of his artwork. Watch below the short-film produced by Kyriakos Alexopoulos and Ryan Walker.  
News | March 25, 2015

JLG 10th Anniversary RECAP

  Jonathan Levine Gallery celebrated its 10th anniversary last month with The Color and the Fury: 10 Years of Jonathan LeVine Gallery, a commemorative group exhibition featuring limited editions and prints. The last decade was full of significant occasions and the opening reception for this exhibition included many special surprises, such as a site-specific installation,... read more
Press | March 11, 2015

Phil Hale featured on MAGNET

  FROM THE DESK OF BOB SCHNEIDER: PHIL HALE Schneider: I came across Phil Hale‘s paintings about 10 years ago when I was browsing through a fantasy art catalogue. I was blown away, not only by his incredible technique, which is as good as any painter alive today, but his explosive subject matter. All of... read more
News | March 7, 2015

Jeff Soto x Oreo Collab

  Jeff Soto was one of the 10 global artists asked by Oreo to creatively illustrate their new campaign called “Play With Oreo”. According to Rae Ann Fera, Jeff Soto says he was asked to interpret three words integral to the Oreo experience: dunk, roll, and twist (other artists were given other words, such as... read more