Bonnie Levinson
West Palm Beach, FL
Multi-disciplinary artist working in mixed media, collage, painting, printmaking, photography and performance.
Message
Bonnie Levinson is a multi-disciplinary artist whose practice encompasses mixed media, painting, printmaking, multi-image photography, and performance. Her work investigates the fluid boundaries between mediums, drawing on their intersections to evoke atmosphere, emotional resonance, and what exists beyond the visible. Her travels and recent relocation to southern Florida have sparked shifts in luminosity, palette, and form, infusing her work with environmental nuance and lush tonal variation, while deepening her inquiry into perception and impermanence. Her work allows her to enter a portal, a creative meditative space—a balance between control and accident.
Levinson maintains a dedicated studio at 1608 South Dixie Highway, Studio 201, in West Palm Beach, Florida. Her work is included in private collections across the United States, with placements in New York, the San Francisco Bay Area, and Los Angeles, California; Asheville, North Carolina; Aspen, Colorado; Nashville, Tennessee; and throughout Florida, as well as onboard the yacht Serena in Newport. She has exhibited in juried and group exhibitions nationwide and recently presented a solo exhibition of 49 works at Roxbury Abbey in the Catskills of New York.
For more than three decades, Levinson held leadership roles in prominent cultural institutions as an arts educator, guest curator, museum executive, and arts administrator. She served as Deputy Director of External Affairs at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and, before that, was Vice President for Development at The New York Public Library. Ten years ago, she returned to artmaking, dedicating her professional life to a comprehensive studio practice.
Levinson earned her Bachelor of Arts degree from Kenyon College and received a Thomas J. Watson Foundation Fellowship for post-graduate independent study and arts travel abroad, catalyzing her museum career and continued engagement with global arts communities. She later earned a Master of Arts in Teaching Museum Education from The George Washington University. Additional study at the San Francisco Art Institute, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, City College of San Francisco, and Colorado Mountain College has further shaped and informed her artistic development.
Statement
Bonnie Levinson is a multi-disciplinary artist working across painting, mixed media, multi-image photography, and performance. Her travels and recent relocation to southern Florida have sparked shifts in luminosity, palette, and form, infusing her work with environmental nuance and lush tonal variation, while deepening her inquiry into perception and impermanence. Her layered compositions explore transitions, memory, and atmosphere, revealing what lies beneath the surface, where the visible and invisible may coexist. Her works evoke movement, radiance, and layered histories and have been acquired by collectors nationwide. They lend themselves to residential, corporate, and hospitality settings-where presence, mood, and spatial elegance matter. During the creative process, her goal is to transmute her subconscious into beauty, embracing resistance. Her work allows her to enter a portal, a creative meditative space—a balance between control and accident. She hopes to engage viewers so they discover meaning and connection on their own terms. Her West Palm Beach studio is open by appointment.
To make her art more accessible, she has developed an elegant and affordable line of wearable art based on her paintings and photography, which includes kimonos, scrunchies, scarves, and home accessories, all crafted in Montreal.