Elisheva Levy
Elisheva Levy (born 1980) is an Israeli artist. She graduated from the fine art department at Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem, and also from the sculpture department at Yale University. At Yale Levy studied with Jessica Stockholder, which substantially influenced her concepts regarding femininity, ambition, and power. During her studies she was also influenced by Joe Scanlan (artist) Mierle Laderman Ukeles Olaf Breuning and Robert Storr. Immediately after graduating from Yale she went on to study Architecture at the Shenkar College of Engineering and Design. Since 2009 she has been teaching at the Architecture department at Bezalel, and in other various art schools and colleges. Levy was awarded the Young Artist Award from the Israeli Ministry of Culture in 2014.
Art career
Levy has shown in solo and group exhibitions, including in the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Herzeliya museum of art, and The Israeli Center for Digital Art. She has won the Young Artist Award from the Israeli Ministry of Culture. Her first solo exhibition "Bee-Eater" was presented in 2004 in the Tel Aviv Artists’ Studios Gallery. Over the next few years she continued to exhibit work that dealt with domestic issues, such as in her 2014 exhibition "Villa". Levy creates domestic environments which she constructs entirely out of paper. Through the work with paper she renders symbols of opulent extravagant stability into a fragile, ephemeral, structures. These foam core and paper structure display the inherent unsustainable nature of contemporary living conditions which rely on crises based economies, and the logic of real-estate.
Architecture
In her delicate architectural installations Levy address the precarious nature of contemporary living conditions. Through the use of printed facades which resemble commercial adds, she translated new forms of identity and community generated by the digital network into a housing suggestion.
Awards and recognition
- 2014 Young Artist Award from the Israeli Ministry of Culture
- 2011 Municipal Studio Scholarship at the Tel Aviv Artist Studios
- 2004 Rabinowitz Grant for the Arts, Tel Aviv
- 2003 Award for Excellence, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem