Jessica (Jessie) Levant is a native San Franciscan who decamped to New York and London for 30 years before returning ‘home’. A photo artist with SFWA since 2010, she took a deep dive during the pandemic lockdown period, shifting from making art with pixels to using her hands, and ‘real’ materials, making collages and soon after, abstract paintings. She now finds herself fully immersed in the abstract mixed media camp with acrylic paint and inks, hand-crated papers, found print and old photographs as her primary art fodder. She learned some basic techniques and principles online from Nick Wilton (Sausalito) and then enrolled in two long online workshops with Louise Fletcher in the North of England. The latter boosted her output and confidence (and world-wide art community) and she now can’t seem to stop creating. She lives in the midst of her studio/workshop/gallery also known as a one-bedroom apartment in San Francisco’s Dogpatch.
In the earlier days, she defined her Photo Art as ‘unexpected views of the ordinary and ordinary views of the unexpected’. She is drawn to shapes, shades, juxtapositions and visual irony, mostly in urban settings. She is not averse to the term ‘quirky’ and has never been accused of being conventional. All these words carry over to much of her current abstract work.
Jessica’s work is frequently selected in the monthly juried shows at the San Francisco Women Artists Gallery and has been seen at several other Bay Area galleries in San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and the East Bay and Davis.
She has several collectors locally and across the United States.
See a broad range of Jessica’s work at jessicalevantart.com as well as on Instagram @jessicalevantart.
