Dan Levenson (artist)
{{Short description|American artist}}
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Dan Levenson (born 1972){{cite web|access-date=2022-04-06|title=Dan Levenson|url=https://www.praz-delavallade.com/artist/dan-levenson|website=Praz-Delavallade|date=13 July 2018 }} is a contemporary artist based in Los Angeles, California.{{Cite interview|date=2015-09-02 |title=Dan Levenson Interview |url=https://contemporaryartreview.la/dan-levenson-interview/ |access-date=2022-04-05 |website=Carla}} He works in painting, sculpture, installation, performance and video.{{Cite web |title=An Afternoon of Performances at The House of the Book – Arts at AJU |url=https://arts.aju.edu/event/skz-monochrome-dyptichs-live-performances/ |access-date=2022-04-05|website=American Jewish University}}{{Cite web |title=Dan Levenson: Drawing Lessons from the SKZ {{!}} Hammer Museum |url=https://hammer.ucla.edu/programs-events/2016/in-real-life/dan-levenson-drawing-lessons-from-the-skz |access-date=2022-04-05 |website=hammer.ucla.edu|date=22 October 2016 }}{{Cite web |last=Cabinet |title=Screening / "The Double" {{!}} Cabinet |url=https://cabinetmagazine.org/events/skowhegan.php |access-date=2022-04-05 |website=cabinetmagazine.org}}{{Cite web |last=Wetzler |first=Rachel |date=2011-03-10 |title=A Populist Attack on the Art World Pulls Punches |url=http://hyperallergic.com/20469/attack-on-the-art-world/ |access-date=2022-04-05 |website=Hyperallergic}}
Early life and education
Levenson was born in New York City. He attended Oberlin College as an undergraduate and the Royal College of Art for graduate school.
Work
Levenson's work involves a fictional Swiss art school based on the Bauhaus, Russian Constructivism, and the Abstraction-Création group.{{Cite web |date=30 January 2018 |title=Dan Levenson: 27 Jan — 24 Feb 2018 at the Praz-Delavallade in Paris, France |url=https://wsimag.com/art/35507-dan-levenson |access-date=5 April 2022 |website=Wall Street International}}{{Unclear inline|date=May 2022}} His work ties together themes of education, professionalization, utopia, freedom, labor, subjectivity, language, individualism, authorship, authenticity, theatricality, modernism, nationalism, and globalization.{{Cite web |last=Sigal |first=Lisa |date=22 February 2013 |title=Dan Levenson |url=http://thebottomline.drawingcenter.org/2013/02/22/dan-levenson/ |access-date=5 April 2022 |website=The Drawing Center}}{{Cite web |last=Capria |first=Alexandra |date=2015-12-18 |title=Dan Levenson at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects |url=https://www.artnews.com/art-news/reviews/dan-levenson-at-susanne-vielmetter-los-angeles-projects-5569/ |access-date=2022-04-05 |website=ARTnews.com}}{{Cite web |last=Stromberg |first=Matt |date=2015-09-01 |title=ArtRx LA |url=http://hyperallergic.com/233304/artrx-la-59/ |access-date=2022-04-05 |website=Hyperallergic}} He is influenced by the legacy of institutional critique, especially the artists Andrea Fraser, Hans Haacke, Mel Bochner, and the art historian and critic Benjamin H. D. Buchloh.
Exhibitions
Levenson has performed at the Hammer Museum, and has exhibited at Vielmetter Los Angeles, Praz-Delavallade, and the American Jewish University.{{Cite web |last=Stromberg |first=Matt |date=2018-01-23 |title=Performances About Learning, Set in a Fictional Classroom |url=http://hyperallergic.com/422764/dan-levenson-house-of-the-book-ezra-orion/ |access-date=2022-04-05 |website=Hyperallergic}}
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Category:21st-century American male artists
Category:Artists from New York City
Category:Alumni of the Royal College of Art
Category:Oberlin College alumni
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