Margaret Leveson's exhibition, "Waterways" will be held at Blue Mountain Gallery from November 1 to November 26. It will be her 19th solo exhibition. Leveson is primarily a landscape painter, painting on site whenever possible. There are many recurrent themes in her work, important amongst them that of water, the focus of the present exhibition.
Many of the paintings were executed around her country home in the Catskills where she and her husband live half of the year. About Leveson's 2015 solo exhibition of Catskill paintings, the Catskill historian Bill Birns wrote: "Some things say 'I have been to Italy,' Margaret Leveson's work says 'I am the Catskills.'" Other paintings are the result of trips to New Mexico and Arizona, places with which she has become familiar through repeated visits over the years with her geologist husband.
Margaret Leveson grew up in Canada spending summers in Algonquin Park, Ontario, the stumping ground of Canadian painter
Tom Thompson. He was an early influence on her work. Leveson got a BA from the University of Toronto in Fine Arts and, after working at the Vancouver Art Gallery, moved to New York City where she settled and obtained an MFA in Fine Arts from Brooklyn College. In 1980, she was a founding member of Blue Mountain Gallery, New York City, where she continues to exhibit through to today. She also exhibits regularly in Longyear Gallery, in Margaretville, New York.
For more information, visit www.bluemountaingallery.org/margaret-leveson, or find the artist's resume and website at www.margaretleveson.com.
