Chris Levine
Chris Levine is a contemporary artist with an expansive and experimental practice. His multi-disciplinary approach harnesses a diverse array of technology with the unyielding intention of revealing the ways in which light is fundamental to human experience. He is driven by a deep-rooted desire to expand perception and sensitively guide the viewer to a meditative engagement with the present moment. His message and his language is light. This spiritually motivated and philosophical approach has allowed him to navigate unchartered territory in new media: he has been at the forefront of exploring how technologies such as holograms and lasers can contribute to the story of art and creative endeavours. ❖
Artwork on Display
Levine’s groundbreaking light-based body of work depicting Queen Elizabeth II is known internationally. In an age of image overload, the artist cut through the noise to make Lightness of Being, a portrait of singular importance. Although he has shown in museums and exhibitions dedicated to portraiture. globally, Levine is not a portrait artist in the traditional sense. At the heart of Levine’s practice are his immersive light installations which he has endeavoured to take out of the white cube environment into a real-world, mass participatory experience. He has created site-specific and large-scale outdoor light installations in sites as diverse as Durham Cathedral to Hobart Tasmania, at Radio City Hall in New York and on the stage at Glastonbury. Continually pushing the boundaries of what light art can do and how it can have a transformative effect on the viewer, his singular ideology pulls the viewer. ❖
CHRIS LEVINE
Queen Elizabeth II Equanimity, 2015
Learn More About the Artist
Official Website www.chrislevine.com
Short Film - The Queen Shoot Documentation 2015
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Chris Levine on the magic of space
By Poppy Malby at GQ
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The Dalai Lama at 80
Compassion 2015
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Artist Chris Levine on How He Turned a Portrait Session With Queen Elizabeth II Into an Iconic Photograph
Artnet
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Chris Levine at Houghton Hall: light, lasers and love signals
Wallpaper Magazine