Visual Arts Faculty
Dani Levine
Photo credit: Emily Schiffer
About
Dani Levine is an artist and educator living in Astoria, New York. Mixing pigments, binders, and other found materials, her practice explores themes of chance, agency, and resilience—ideas that recur throughout her work. In her recent paintings, she draws on the queer-feminist aesthetics of 1960s and ’70s print culture, layering lesbian iconography with invented symbols to traverse time through image, material, and genre alike. She has taught and developed painting material workshops for schools such as Princeton, Boston University, Pratt Institute, and Swarthmore College. Through teaching, she engages artists’ materials as a means to build specificity, context, and agency within artists’ work. Her approach aims to open broader conversations about color as material—connecting its historical and contemporary uses, as well as its alchemic properties, to visual traditions, cultural references, and personal narratives.
Levine received her MFA from the Yale School of Art and BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design. Select honors include exhibitions at Provincetown Arts Association Museum, Sikkema Jenkins & Co, My Pet Ram, The Alfred Museum, SOLOWAY, and The Abrons Arts Center. She has been an Artist-in-Residence at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts, and a Lower East Side Printshop Keyholder in New York, New York. She currently teaches at Princeton University.
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