by Bonnie Levinthal
September 3 – December 13, 2024
ABOUT THE EXHIBITION:
Bonnie Levinthal’s work is rooted in the exploration and re-presentation of landscape, incorporating methods and mediums that connect process with content to create a visual record of her experiences in response to place. While working, Levinthal continually re-(de)fines what landscape is for her. Her work interprets elements of landscape and place as image, object, and as installation. In the studio, Levinthal’s observations and memories of the landscape are combined with research concerning the environment and global climate crisis; creating a context that exists somewhere between the real and the imagined, and that calls to the underlying structure and relationships inherent in the physical world alongside critical issues of our time.
This exhibition showcases two bodies of work alongside artist’s journals, reflecting Levinthal’s response to place through a sampling of artworks completed at home and abroad. In a large work on view, entitled Strata, she contemplates ice and sediment core sampling, geological formations and topographical patterns, completed while a resident fellow at the Ballinglen Arts Foundation in Ireland. In a body of work on view throughout the gallery, Between Two Rivers is an exploration and response to the waterways in and around Philadelphia, a record of observations of atmosphere, weather, and a record of her studio practice during the pandemic. The journals on view illustrate Levinthal’s many responses to various bodies of water, both actual and imaginary.
ABOUT THE ARTIST:
Bonnie Levinthal (Philadelphia, PA) received her MFA from the Pennsylvania State University and her BFA from the Philadelphia College of Art. She has shown her work both nationally and internationally. Levinthal has been the recipient of numerous grants and fellowships including a Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Grant. She has been a fellow at Yaddo and The Millay Colony in the United States and internationally at Lumen in Atina, Italy, Nes in Skagastrond, Iceland, the Arctic Circle Residency in Svalbard, Norway and at the Ballinglen Arts Foundation in Ballycastle, Ireland. Levinthal’s work is collected in numerous public and private collections in the United States. She is Professor of Art, Emerita at Penn State Abington. Over the years, Bonnie Levinthal has been instrumental in the development and growth of the Penn State Abington Art Program and the college at large. She has been at the forefront of the internationalization process at Penn State Abington and has developed and implemented study abroad programs to locations such as Ireland, Italy, Cuba, and Spain, sharing her research and creative activity with students in impactful and lasting ways.
EVENTS:
Wednesday, September 25th
Suminagashi Paper Marbling Workshop
10:00 – 11:30 am
Room 136 Woodland
Exhibition Reception
12:00 – 1:00 pm
Art Gallery
Saturday, December 7th
Closing Reception
3:00 – 4:30 pm
Art Gallery
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