About The Artist

Abby Levine was born in Newark, NJ in 1955. Her mother was a Kindergarten teacher and there were always art materials in the house. A solitary child, Abby spent most of her time reading and drawing. With time, Abby's interests expanded to encompass mythology, popular culture, film, and politics---systems that people have created to explain the world around them. She attended Temple University, Tyler School of Art, graduating with honors in 1976, and has since pursued a career in visual art, working briefly as an illustrator in New York City and Seattle and exhibiting her work throughout the United States as well as Mexico and Canada. In the mid-nineteen eighties Abby developed a technique of working in wood relief, using painted layered wood, often with the addition of wood-burning and carved elements. Using this technique, she produced over thirty pieces of commissioned artwork with leftist themes for a collector in Texas, where she resided for fifteen years. Commissions have always made up a large part of her output, and she has found them to be rewarding, enjoyable, and mind-expanding. Current work combines political themes with increasingly abstract elements, exploring the relationship between human beings and the rest of the natural world. Abby's work has been featured in numerous print and online publications, and her work has been purchased by clients in the United States, Europe, and Mexico. She received the Premio Arte in 2010, and a Union City Artists’ Award in 2012. Her work is in the collection of the William Musto Museum in Union City, New Jersey, where she currently resides.