Josef Alan Levi - b. New York, Feb. 17, 1938

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Josef Levi's work in the late-1960s and early-

1970s is primarily concerned with light

and the optical effect of color.

Entitled: "K-PGO" Green, Pink, Orange Polka Dots

Op art painting with polka dot composition,

Oil on Canvas.

Signed on reverse, "Josef Levi 1971". 58 1/4" x 58 1/4"

Josef Levi was born in New York City in 1938, and studied at the University of Connecticut and Columbia University. He traveled widely in Europe and the Middle East, and served in the US Army in the early 1960s.

Levi's first one-man exhibition was held at Stable Galleries in 1966, and further one-man shows were held there in 1967, 1969 and 1970. In 1966 he was included in "Light in Art" at the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, and the following year he exhibited a fluorescent light work (with similar optical effects to this painting) in the influential exhibition "Light Motion Space", organized by the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis and Howard Wise Gallery, New York.

In addition, Levi has had one-man exhibitions at AM Sachs Gallery in New York, Jacob's Ladder Gallery in Washington, DC, and, more recently, at OK Harris Gallery, New York. His works are in the collections of the Albright-Knox Museum, Buffalo, NY; Museum of Modern Art, New York; The National Gallery of Art and Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH; Worcester Art Museum, Newark Museum, and others.

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