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Ne s Lev <br /> From: "Nerys Levy"<rilevy @mindspring.com> <br /> To: "Nerys Levy"<riievy@mindspring.com> <br /> Sent: Saturday, November 16, 2013 5:43 PM <br /> Subject: Nerys Levy Resume <br /> RESUME and ARTIST'S STATEMENT <br /> NERYS W. LEVY <br /> 161, Swansea Lane, <br /> Chapel Hill,N.C. 27516 <br /> Phone-Cell: 919-417-3081 <br /> Home: 919-932-1533 <br /> Email: rilev finds.a r orn <br /> Website: wwjjj ner ,evy.coin <br /> ARTIST'S STATEMENT <br /> Working on site using mixed water-based media on paper, I try to portray the forms and <br /> forces of nature: Polar landscapes and wildlife, Chinese urban and riverine landscapes, <br /> Alamance,Orange and Chatham county locations,North Carolina's forests,Alpine <br /> masses and glaciers,cloud formations, animals(especially dogs), European gardens and <br /> old architectural forms altered by time. I often do a series of works of the same subject in <br /> shifting light, seasons and weather. When painting animals, I usually document their <br /> movements in a series of works done on site and in their home environments. I visited the <br /> Antarctic Peninsula in December 2007 and in July 2009 worked in the Norwegian Arctic, <br /> As a result of these Polar experiences,I produced a large body of work on Polar animals <br /> and landscapes for the multimedia exhibition"Ice Counterpoint"at UNC's Fed Ex <br /> Global Education Center from January 7 through May 312010 and"Artico,Asolo <br /> Antartico"at the Asolo Civic Museum,Veneto, Italy in November 2010. Some of these <br /> Polar works are currently on exhibit at the Whateomb Museum, Bellingham, WA, in their <br /> exhibit"Vanishing Ice" and at Panzanella, Carrboro,N.C,These exhibitions are intended <br /> to put a face on the earth's endangered Polar regions and to examine the implications of <br /> the changes there for the rest of our planet. <br /> PROFESSIONAL BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH_ <br /> Born in Wales and a twenty one year resident of Carrboro North Carolina Nerys Levy is <br /> deeply rooted in her native country's culture which has influenced her paintin Levy had <br /> a first career in race relations community work and education working in India the <br /> Caribbean, South Africa and London. She has a PhD in Modern South Asian History <br /> from the University of London. Although she tainted throughout much of her childhood <br /> Levy began serious studies in 1980 in La Jolla, California working with various <br /> members of the Visual Arts Department of the University of California at San Diego She <br /> also studied at the Pacific Art League in Palo Alto, California. Many of her works are in <br /> Private collections both in Europe and the United States As Chairperson of the Carrboro <br /> Branch Library Art Committee and a member of the Horace Williams House Art <br /> Committee, during the past twenty years Nerys has curated at least seventy exhibitions <br /> She is also a member artist of FRANK Gall, Chapel Hill. <br /> Nerys has also worked with children's groins in both North Carolina and Italy in an <br /> attempt to educate them about the earth's endangered Polar Regions.ns Her Polar work bas <br /> 11/16/2013 <br />