PERSONAL HISTORY:
BORN: Los Angeles, California, USA
RESIDE: Los Angeles, California, USA
EDUCATION:
University of California, Berkeley, 1953
B.A. University of California, Los Angeles, Cum Laude, 1958, Painting, Drawing, Sculpture
M.A. University of California, Los Angeles, 1960, Painting, Drawing, Sculpture
STUDIED WITH:
Richard Diebenkorn
Adolph Gottlieb
William Brice
Robert Cremean
James McGarrel
John Paul Jones
TEACHING EXPERIENCE:
1958-60 Teaching Assistant, Drawing and Painting, U.C.L.A.
1963-69 Instructor (Part-Time), Drawing and Painting, Santa Monica College
1969-1998 Professor of Art (Full-Time), Drawing, Painting and Design, Cerritos College, Los Angeles
GALLERY REPRESENTATION AND AGENTS:
Esther Robles Gallery, Los Angeles, 1965-1973
Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, 1969-1970
Bernard Danenberg Gallery, New York, 1971-1974
Orlando Gallery, Los Angeles, California, 1976, 1977
Grinstein/Donenfeld Contemporary Art, Santa Monica, California, 1990 –1994
Orlando Gallery, Los Angeles, California, 2003 -2013
FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS:
Municipal Art Gallery, Barnsdall Park, Los Angeles, Painting Awards, 1957, 1958 (Purchase), 1966
University of California, Los Angeles, graduated Cum Laude, 1958
U.C.L.A. Teaching Fellowship, University of California, Los Angeles, 1959, 1960
Los Angeles County Museum of Art Painting Award, "Annual Exhibition," 1959
Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., 1970
Unites States, Information Agency, Washington, D.C., 1971
Womanspace (Founding Director) 1972
SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
Esther Robles Gallery, Los Angeles, 1965, 1968
Grandview Gallery, Women's Building, Los Angeles, 1975
Orlando Gallery, Encino, California, 1976
Cerritos College, Los Angeles, 1978, 1984, 1996
Orlando Gallery, Los Angeles, 2005
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
San Francisco Museum of Art, California, "Annual Exhibition," 1957
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., "Print Exhibition," 1958
Los Angeles County Museum of Art Annual Exhibition, 1958, 1959
Art Gallery, University of California, Los Angeles, "Los Angeles Art 1915-1960,"
(Traveling Exhibition) curator Henry Hopkins, 1960
Delexi Gallery, Los Angeles, 1963
Esther Robles Gallery, Los Angeles, 1966, 1967, 1969, 1972, 1973
Museum of Contemporary Crafts, New York, "Plastics As Plastics," 1968
University of Nevada, Reno, "Light and Kinetics," 1968
Fresno Art Museum, California, "Four Artists," 1968
San Diego State University, "Plastics," 1969
Art Gallery University of California, Los Angeles, 1969, "Electric Art,"
International Exhibit, curator Oliver Andrews
Phoenix Art Museum, "Electric Art," 1969
Occidental College, Los Angeles, "Four Artists," 1969
Long Beach Museum of Art, California, "Luminism," 1969
San Francisco Museum of Art, California, "Centennial Sculpture Exhibition," 1970-1971
"Small Sculpture From the United States," (Traveling Exhibition in Europe) 1970-1971
Bernard Danenberg Gallery, New York, 1971-1973
Lytton Gallery, Los Angeles, “Sculpture,” 1971
Long Beach Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California, "21 Women Artists Invisible/
Visible," Long Beach Museum Traveling Exhibit curated by Dextra Frankel, 1972
California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, "The Last Plastic Show," 1972
Mt. San Antonio College, "Three Artists," Linda Levi, Edie Danielli, Gloriane Harris, 1973
Pasadena City College, "5 Directions," Carole Caroompas, Betye Saar, Karen Carson,
Susan Moss, Linda Levi, 1973
Womanspace, Los Angeles, "Opening Invitational Show," 1973
Womanspace, Los Angeles, "Abstract Sexual Imagery," 1973
Art Rental Gallery, Los Angeles Museum of Art, 1973
Art Rental Gallery, La Jolla Museum of Art, 1974
Collaborative Gallery, Los Angeles, "Women Artists 74," 1974
Grandview Gallery, Women’s Building, Los Angeles, 1974, 1975
Cerritos College, Los Angeles, "16 Los Angeles Women Artists," 1974
California State University Fullerton, “Bottle Show,” curated by Dextra Frankel, 1976
Triad Gallery, Los Angeles, "Proposals," 1976
Orlando Gallery, Encino, California, 1976, 1977
Downey Museum of Art, Downey, California, "America," 1976
Cerritos College, Los Angeles, "24 Southern California Women Artists," 1976
Memorial Cultural Arts Center, Los Angeles, "Plastic Perspective," 1977
Art Gallery, University of California, Los Angeles, "The Early Sixties at UCLA," 1977
Cerritos College, Los Angeles, 1980, 1985, 1992,
Focus Gallery, Internet, Computer Artists 2003 to Present Digital Art Gallery, Los Angeles, “Grid Show” 2004
Orlando Gallery, California Artists, 2007
HVE, Santa Monica, California, 2011, 2012
Nyehaus Gallery, New York City, "The Very Last Plastic Show, " 2014
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY:
ABC Television, Los Angeles, "Search," Lecture on Women Artists of the 20th Century, 1975.
Danieli, Fidel, "Seventeen Artists" Images and Issues, 1981
KCET, Channel 28, Los Angeles. Film "Linda Levi Kinetic Light Sculpture," 1969
KPFK, Pacifica Radio, Los Angeles. "Women in the Arts," 1971.
"L.A. County Museum Annual," Los Angeles Times, 1959
Muchnic, Suzanne. "Plastic Perspective," Art Week, 1977.
Newman, Thelma, Plastics As Sculpture, 1974.
Nix, Marilyn. "Artists Invisible/Visible," Art Week, 1972.
Esther Robles Gallery records, Smithsonian Archives of American Art
Rosenthal, Adrienne. "One Woman Show," Art Week, 1976.
Rubinstein, Charlotte Streifer, American Women Sculptors: A History of Women Working in Three Dimensions, 1990.
Schapiro, Miriam. Art: Woman's Sensibility, 1975.
Schueler, Jon, The Sound of Slate: A Painter's Life, 1999
Seldis, Henry. "One Woman Show," Los Angeles Times, 1968.
Smith, Barbara. "The Female Sexuality, Female Identity Exhibit." Womanspace Journal, 1973.
Snyder, Susan. "One Woman Show." Artforum, 1965
Terbell, Melinda. "The lst Invitational Show," Womanspace Journal, 1973.
Weiner, Helen. "Show Launches Womanspace," Los Angeles Times, 1973.
Wilding, Faith. By Our Own Hands, 1976.
Wilson, William. "Kinetic Light on Luminism Exhibit," 1969.
. "A Vague Unfreedom in Feminists' Works," Los Angeles Times, 1972.
. "The Flavor of Feminism," Los Angeles Times, 1974.
. "One-Woman Show," Los Angeles Times, 1976.
. "The Early Sixties at U.C.L.A.," Los Angeles Times, 1977.
Wurdemann, Helen. "Hopkins UCLA Show Outstanding," Los Angeles Times, 1960.