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Dan Levenson (born 1972) [1] is a contemporary artist based in Los Angeles, California. [2] He works in painting, sculpture, installation, performance and video. [3] [4] [5] [6]
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Dan Levenson (born 1972) [1] is a contemporary artist based in Los Angeles, California. [2] He works in painting, sculpture, installation, performance and video. [3] [4] [5] [6]
Levenson was born in New York City. [1] He attended Oberlin College as an undergraduate and the Royal College of Art for graduate school. [2]
Levenson's work involves a fictional Swiss art school based on the Bauhaus, Russian Constructivism, and the Abstraction-Création group. [7] [ clarification needed ] His work ties together themes of education, professionalization, utopia, freedom, labor, subjectivity, language, individualism, authorship, authenticity, theatricality, modernism, nationalism, and globalization. [2] [8] [9] [10] He is influenced by the legacy of institutional critique, especially the artists Andrea Fraser, Hans Haacke, Mel Bochner, and the art historian and critic Benjamin H. D. Buchloh. [2]
Levenson has performed at the Hammer Museum, [4] and has exhibited at Vielmetter Los Angeles, [9] Praz-Delavallade, [7] and the American Jewish University. [3] [11]
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