Jamie Lehrhoff Levine

Jamie Lehrhoff Levine creates highly detailed, labor-intensive art designed to provoke dialogue and impact the world beyond the gallery space. Exploring the tension between the beautiful and the grotesque, her practice centers on fragility, vulnerability, and cosmic connectivity. Her diverse forty-year career ranges from textiles at Syracuse University and genetic hybrids at SVA’s Bio Art Lab, to current painting and sculpture addressing Monarch butterfly preservation.

 

Levine’s latest clay and rope sculptures are deeply informed by marine biology and environmental hair mats used for ocean oil-spill remediation, transforming these ecological concepts into formal visual provocations.

 

A New Jersey State Council on the Arts Fellow and recipient of an Excellence in Jewelry Award from Montclair State University, Levine also completed a BMW Guggenheim Lab research project with the ecological collective SPURSE. She has exhibited her work widely, including international shows in London, Berlin, and Italy.