May 21, 2020
Future Fair 2020 Insider's Picks: Jessica Levy
Jessica Levy, an Art Advisor based in Long Island, New York and the Founder of JL Art Advisory, selects her favorites from Future Fair 2020.
Jordan Kerwick, Health et Culture. 2019, Oil, acrylic, enamel, charcoal on canvas, 39 1/2 × 47 1/4 in, 100.3 × 120 cm. Courtesy of ANNA ZORINA GALLERY.
Jessica Levy is an Art Advisor based in Long Island, New York. She founded JL Art Advisory in 2010 and also co-founded Hourglass Advisory in 2018. Jessica earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts at the University of Michigan which gave her the opportunity to work hands-on with various mediums such as ceramics, lithography, photography, textiles and painting. After graduating she entered NYU for her Masters of Fine Art concentrating in ceramic sculpture. In 1998 during her MFA program, Jessica found a community of contemporaries that were interested in buying art, but we’re overwhelmed by the “new Chelsea” environment. It was at this point where Jessica pinpointed her uniqueness in the enjoyment of embracing the psychological connection of why people buy art, and began to assist her contemporaries with cultivating new collections.
Jessica Levy is now a mother of two girls and her experience with art advisory has continued for well over 20 years. She has developed a strong and loyal clientele both privately and corporately. Jessica always has her clients best interests in mind and strives to educate them in looking not just at the ebbs and flows of the art market, but focusing on the power of connection between viewer and an acquisition.
Put Me In A Movie, You'll Be The Star
2020, Spray paint, acrylic paint, and oil paint on canvas,
24 × 20 in, 61 × 50.8 cm.
Courtesy of Ross + Kramer
“I love the visual world where women find their power. Love the exaggeration of the bodies and forms, as if when a situation is in your mind, sometimes it’s not as if you think. The figures are unique and super-heroine like the colors.” — Jessica Levy
La Costa Daurada
2020, Acrylic on canvas,
70 × 80 in, 177.8 × 203.2 cm.
Courtesy of 1969
“Incredible how you feel the plumpness of the figures. You can truly sense how they fill the canvas as if there isn’t enough room. There is so much emotion!” — Jessica Levy
Health et Culture
2019, Oil, acrylic, enamel, charcoal on canvas,
39 1/2 × 47 1/4 in, 100.3 × 120 cm.
Courtesy of ANNA ZORINA GALLERY.
“Love the playfulness, settings and the richness of palette.” — Jessica Levy
The Girl Who Loved Insects
2015-2018, Flashe, oil, ink, glitter, and acrylic on linen,
84 × 74 in, 213.4 × 188 cm.
Courtesy of RUSCHMAN
“This is what we need in life right now — the peacefulness; the dreamlike whimsical strokes are a curative to our current times. It is like a Renior. The simplicity of life just connecting with animals.” — Jessica Levy
Untitled
2017, Acrylic on canvas
31 1/2 × 23 3/5 in, 80 × 60 cm
Courtesy of Alberta Pane.
“WOW this execution is amazing!!! You would have no idea these are acrylics on canvas. I love a steady hand.” — Jessica Levy
L'herbier estampe
2019, Print on paper,
16 1/5 × 11 1/2 in, 41.1 × 29.2 cm, Edition of 3 + 1AP.
Courtesy of Alberta Pane
“Interesting yet ghostly hands holding objects of nature. I enjoy that the objects are more in focus than the arms. The compositions are so great, you feel the balance.” — Jessica Levy
One flew over the dragons nest (The NY St. George Experiment)
2014, Acrylic on Paper
59 4/5 × 44 1/10 in, 152 × 112 cm.
Courtesy of Dio Horia
“Mesmerizing mandalas! Something that you can return to over and over, and create new dialogues. It’s very interactive and engaging.”
— Jessica Levy
Tide
2019, Glazed ceramic
8 × 10 in, 20.3 × 25.4 cm.
Courtesy of DUTTON & Steve Turner Gallery.
“Being a former ceramist myself, I love the folk art drawings using clay tiles. Seems like story telling or pages to an illustrated book.” — Jessica Levy
PEEPLAND ANGEL
2017, Gouache on Tyvek,
17 7/10 × 23 3/5 in, 45 × 60 cm.
Courtesy of STEMS Gallery
“I love the 1970’s era! The technique of using oil sticks is fantastic. It makes me wish I could appreciate this texture in person!!!”
— Jessica Levy
Life Out of Balance
2019, Oil on panel, 24 × 18 in, 61 × 45.7 cm.
Courtesy of Mother Gallery
“As a child I would have these dreams of shapes in the atmosphere and how they could be linked together -- as if these shapes were people. These paintings bring me back to those visions. The paintings are so well executed too! I love the surrealism of objects.”
— Jessica Levy
