BIO
Born and educated in Montreal, Pearl
Levy graduated with a degree in Fine Arts from Université du Québec à Montréal. She had actively pursued an earlier career in drawing and painting, and then gravitated to the “three dimensional experience” of
sculpture.
She has had numerous successful exhibitions and her works are now well represented in private collections in Canada, the United States, Great Britain, France, and Spain.
Her works also reside in the executive offices of Canadian and American corporations.
Pearl has, for many years, enjoyed an intellectually rewarding career in the realm of teaching to both anglophones and francophones in the greater Montreal area.
The artist works with different coloured marble that she acquires from both Europe and North America. Her warm feminine sculptures with soft flowing lines, or her geometric figures, all manage to reflect the diversity and different colours of women around the world, and yet, their common experience. Pearl also includes in her collection several different coloured figures in bronze, big and small size works highly polished and rough, creating a sense of harmony and balance.
ARTIST STATEMENT
"In recent years, I have evolved towards larger works for both the private and public domain. Be they single or multiple units, their forms represent geometric and organic motifs; polished and rough, pure and impure, but all working together as one. In fact, I feel that they represent mankind’s strength and frailties, compassion or lack thereof, and the ambivalence of our human inner feelings. The
marriage of these various forms and textures are also manifested in my smaller
works.
In the final analysis, all of these characteristics must
blend together to epitomize the overall strength and perseverance
of the human spirit."
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Pearl Levy
RESUMÉ
Exhibitions
2010 Artists Choice, Galerie Jean-Pierre Valentin
2009 Artists Choice, Galerie Jean-Pierre Valentin
2008 Artists Choice, Galerie Jean-Pierre Valentin
2007 Solo, Galerie Michel-Ange
2006 Galerie Jean-Pierre Valentin
2005 Galerie Jean-Pierre Valentin
2004 Galerie Jean-Pierre Valentin
2003 Galerie Jean-Pierre Valentin
2002 Solo, Galerie Michel-Ange, Montreal
2000/2001/2002 Le choix des artistes, Collective, Galerie Jean-Pierre Valentin, Montreal
1999 Autoportrait, Collective, Galerie Jean-Pierre Valentin, Montreal
1997 In Full Colour, Duo avec R. Briansky, Galerie Jean-Pierre Valentin, Montreal
1997 Pirouette, Centre Mondial, Montreal
1997 Centre d’Art de Laval
1996 Éradication de la pauvreté, YMCA, Vieux Québec
1996 Centre d’Art de St. Jean sur Richelieu
1996 Éradication de la pauvreté, Centre Culturel Brossard
1996 Gallery 7, Toronto
1995 Exposition itinérante du groupe de femmes peintres et sculpteurs Art
Continu-L, Y.M.C.A., Quebec
1995 La tolérance, La Galerie, Montreal
1994 Galerie Michel-Ange, Montreal
1994 Centre communautaire Elgar, île des Soeurs
1994 Centre d’art Morency, Montreal
1994 Place Ville Marie, Montreal
1993 Sculptor Society of Canada, Toronto, Kelowna, Montreal
1993 Elles sont 16, Collective, Galerie Jean-Pierre Valentin, Montreal
1993 Bibliothèque Gabrielle Roy, Quebec
1993 Place Ville Marie, Montreal
1993 Les grandes amoureuses à travers les âges, Collective, Galerie Jean-Pierre Valentin, Montreal
Bibliography
2009 Montreal Home Magazine, Autumn Ed.
2009 Parcours Magazine, Autumn Ed.
2007 The Suburban, Oct 17
2007 Parcours Magazine, Ed. No. 2
2005 Parcours Magazine, Ed. No. 4
2004-5 Magazin 'Art Biennial of Canadian Artists
2002 West Island Suburban, April Ed.
2002 Parcours Magazine, Spring Ed.
2001 Magazin 'Art, Ed. No. 2
2000 Magazin 'Art, Ed. No. 3
1999 Parcours Magazine, Summer Ed.
Permanent Collections
Bombardier Inc., Montreal
Patterson International, Montreal
Téléglobe Canada, Montreal
Habitation Classique, Longueuil, Quebec
CIBC—Wood Gundy, Montreal, Quebec
La Banque Royale du Canada, Montreal
The Royal Bank of Canada, Toronto
Hôtel de Ville, Verdun, Quebec
Loto-Quebec, Montreal
United Nations Association of Canada, Ottawa
Musée de la Ville de Lachine, Quebec
Musée de Bas Saint-Laurent, Quebec
Royal Carribean Voyager of the Seas cruise
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Ernst & Young, Montreal, Quebec
Power Corporation of Canada, Montreal
Rothenberg & Rothenberg, Westmount, Quebec
Bernaissance Inc., Saint-Laurent, Quebec
Dominion Securities/RBC, Montreal
Galleries
Galerie Jean-Pierre Valentin, Montreal, Quebec
Galerie Michel-Ange, Montreal, Quebec
Galerie l’Harmattan, Baie St-Paul, Quebec
Gallery Gevik, Toronto, Ontario
Galerie Michel Bigué, St-Sauveur des Monts, Quebec
Knowlton Gallery, Lac Brome, Quebec
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