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REFLECTIONS

“Her charcoal images reduce hills ... and foliage to bare essential gentle curves and angles recalling such disparate influences as the atmospheric work of Claude Lorraine, the detail-less drawings of Seurat and the precision of Grant Wood's regional vistas.”
Lawrence Cappiello, curator, www.rahwayartsguild.org/exhibits.htm, 2006, illus.

"Soothing, soft and flowing..."
Marylou Morano, Landscape Imagery Unites LandScope Artwork,
The Westfield Leader, March 9, 2006, illus.

“Among the five artists is ... Laura Lou Levy, whose dreamy charcoal landscapes are reduced to refined curves, almost abstract...”
Dan Bischoff, artnotes: Images of Nature, The Star Ledger,
February 6, 2006

“Intimacy has long been the stock-in-trade of artists like Laura Lou Levy ... who shows two of her small charcoal landscapes of riverine valleys, which are like tiny details taken from the deep background of a drawing by Leonardo. I find them immensely calming, little… realms of water making sinuous curves through silt as smooth as paté.”
Dan Bischoff, Thinking Big in Small Spaces, The Star Ledger,
November 11, 2004