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March 09, 2006
Cara Levine
Cara Levine- I was born in Washington D.C. in 1983 and grew up in Los Angeles, California. I attended Harvard-Westlake high school in North Hollywood where I became interested in sculpture, namely ceramics. I worked with glass artist John Luebtow who acted as my guide through my first years of interest in material and form. After high school, I moved to Segovia, Spain, to work under ceramic artist Marisa De Lucas. With Marisa I was able to gain experience with other materials besides clay, metal, plastics, stone, and glaze chemistry. In the fall of 2003, after one year in Spain, I came back to the States to attend The School of Art & Design at University of Michigan. In the fall of 2005, I studied abroad at Kyoto Seika University as an exchange student in sculpture. I am in my third year at A & D.
In the last couple of years, I have found a deep interest in the role of absurdity art—what is its place? What is its logic? How can it be used? I have made work with various media that attempts to answer those questions. For evolution, I am interested in illustrating a different type of time line. I am interested in using traditional means, weaving on a loom, with non-traditional methods, adding plastic toys to the weaving. This piece describes the evolution of the predator and illustrates his progress, entangled in his environment, tied back, yet moving forward.
Posted by gharp at March 9, 2006 11:21 PM