Captivated by underrepresented women in history, my art aims to bring their accomplishments and efforts to light through the use of visual narrative and printed woodcarvings.
The overlooked contributions of women is something that I am passionate about. I desire to bring awareness to what they have done by creating artwork that serves both to educate and enlighten. During their time in patriarchal societies, it was generally frowned upon for women to take part in certain aspects of society, so their contributions were often neglected, or others took credit for their work. I make art with this subject matter because as a woman I sympathize with the struggles they faced in their own time based on their gender.
Printmaking provides a variety of ways in which to work with the multiple. Which means I can make many prints from the same carved block of wood and they can each be considered originals in their own right instead of copies. Working with multiples also means that various experimental techniques can be applied, surfaces printed upon, and works amplified after the initial printing. Blocks can be printed onto almost any fabric, walls can be screen-printed upon; if the print is on paper then it can be dyed, bleached, water colored, and other papers can be collaged on top of it. These methods have fascinated me since my first experience with printmaking and have enabled me to make art in the way I have always wanted.

The social significance of modern myth is now more apparent than ever. My artwork centers on creating a visual narrative primarily through printmaking by making sense of emotions and giving significance to feelings. It is an exploration of life as a search for purpose and myth by developing images through reflection and spontaneity. In a place where I feel a loss of identity and interconnectedness, I am extending perception of real lived life. I am singling out specific moments in time and relating them to other moments for an intensified emotion to define its new dimension and perception of the memory and its reason. I look toward a myth structure to make sense of life, to combat anxiety, and to fulfill the desire for community.

Overall my work is an intimate look at memory and perspective, thinking about them collectively in order to make sense of their purpose and piecing them together.

Through printmaking and detailed drawings, I seek to examine and illustrate my own female identity within current society. Influenced by “rememory”, the recollection of traumatic experiences that emerge to our consciousness in non-linear flashes, I create portraits of female figures, or “characters”, that are utilized as substitutions of myself. These convey a profound sense of emotional anxiety, sadness, anger, and fear through personal storytelling. I explore themes investigating female sexulaity, personal symbolism and tropes that relate to the domesticity, stereotypes and fertility (or lack of). To me, inquiring about female sexuality is crucial as it highlights the unspoken, it is something women are expected not to speak about openly. By using prints, I am able to allow for collaboration between myself and the plate, configuring what it is to be a woman and to reveal my own personal experiences to an unexpecting audience.

With origins in the preservation of thoughts, ideas and events, I am inspired by printmaking’s inherent connections to time and memory. In my work, I explore loss and remembrance while employing various combinations of traditional and contemporary printmaking techniques which work to simultaneously omit and augment details. My subjects, stoic white silhouettes, faceless and ghoulish, find themselves dissolving into a misty atmosphere of dust motes and stardust or merging into the emptiness of blank paper. Fleshy bubblegum and hazy fog become the colors of flawed and faded memories, while the distorted figures echo the uneasiness and irrelevancy that comes with feeling disconnected from one’s past.  

I have been fascinated by the charm and visionary power of fantasy since childhood. As a result, my primary intent as an artist is to develop visual narratives that are steeped in my personal style of imaginative realism. Inspired by the mindscapes of J.R. Tolkien and Terry Goodkind, I create artwork that belongs to an immersive fantasy world. Each piece adds context to those before it, and imbues my body of work with relatable characters and depth.

Currently, my illustrative works are centered in collage that deliberately attempts to highlight the common themes of the human condition; The struggle against hopelessness, the loss of religion and the perseverance of faith, as well as the enduring quest for the meaning of life. I explore these themes by infusing my work with allegorical and symbolic content, saturating the image in layers of meaning while simultaneously seeking to evoke an immediate emotional or subjective response.

This work is rooted in ideas of lost, longing, homage, archive, and power. To look at
one’s own identity and understand the history you embody can help create a more positive future. The lens of hardcore punk and gayness have been applied to this work. Knowing that the gay rights liberation sparked around the time hardcore punk. Positions this work at a crossroads of two communities fighting against a common enemy, the white supremacist capitalist society. This work calls to question what is there and what is lost. Where we have come and where we have gone. To quote Warzone “don’t forget the struggle, don’t forget the streets, don’t forget your roots.”

Being born in the 90’s Levi’s earliest experiences with art were through Looney Tunes, animated Disney movies, rock and roll album covers and books like the Berenstain bears and I SPY.  Nowadays Levi is inspired by everyday life in this tech centric 21st century. Levi’s goal in current and future works is to create concise social commentary.