Shevy Levy

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Painting is a shared emotional experience. In my own work, I begin with a powerful memory linked to a particular place in time – to an emotional experience with the physical world. The art is then the distillation and tracing of that memory through colour, texture, shape and brushstroke to the emotional place where it lives. This might be a place of sadness, happiness, peace, exhilaration, or awe. The acknowledgment of emotion is transformative and teaches the lesson that everything in this world moves forward – beyond the edges of the canvas, beyond us, beyond the memories themselves.

Shevy Levy is a noted Canadian artist who visualizes her memories as contemporary abstract paintings using bold gestural brushstrokes and vibrant color pallets. She began her art career in 1975. An Israeli native, she met and studied with master artists Moshe Gershoni and Raffi Lavie who significantly influenced Shevy’s work. In 1993 Shevy immigrated to Canada where she very quickly became part of the Vancouver art community.
Her abstract pieces look simple on the outside but they are more complex and dynamic on the inside. Shevy’s work is about what you don’t see, and it invites the viewer to create a meaning for the painting based on their personal experiences and memories - so they might experience them more fully in their own life.
One of the most unique elements of Shevy’s abstracts is the use of mathematical formulas as part of the composition. This influence is coming back from her formal degrees in mathematics and fascination with exactness of shapes and formulas.