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Greeting Cards Now Available at The Strand Bookstore

By Simon Levenson • Apr 21st, 2010 • Category: News

I am very happy that starting on April 27th 2010 my hand-signed greeting cards will be available at The Strand Bookstore located at 828 Broadway at 12th Street. And are also available at Barnes and Noble Union Square, New York City at 17th Street



Arts For Transit Commission – Sample

By Simon Levenson • Mar 26th, 2010 • Category: News, The Working Artist
Simon Levenson - Artwork for Beach 60th Street Subway Station - 2010

This is a sample block, shot on an angle, of the artwork I am creating for the Beach 60th Street Station for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority. The artwork will be permenantly installed in July, 2010. This is one of 400 glass blocks with my artwork painted on it.



A Woman Named Rainbow

By Simon Levenson • Jan 5th, 2010 • Category: Available Paintings, News, Oil Paintings, Portraits
A Woman Named Rainbow 10x10 Oil on Wood

If you ever get a chance to plunk down $15 and go to a portrait painting group where a woman named Rainbow is posing for three hours, take it. This oil painting on wood is a 10″x10″ square and available to collectors. Contact me for the price.



Ground Zero

By Simon Levenson • Nov 13th, 2009 • Category: Museums And Galleries, News, Writing
Cezanne Room at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

If I know how to paint, this is where I learned it. It was on this very spot when I was in the ninth grade, that I learned how to paint. At least I saw how to paint and I have spent the last many years learning it. I am still so early in my [...]



Slowly Slowly, Langsam Langsam

By Simon Levenson • Oct 3rd, 2009 • Category: News
The Red Umbreall

Things happen slowly in life… Mr. Peters explained this morning on the way to the factory, the history of glass art from about 700 A.D. to modern times. It seems that after every advancement there was 200 to 300 hundred years before something new caught on. The valley that we drive through to get to [...]