Cognition is a perception of the present. Various stimuli, such as bodily senses, thoughts, emotions, and impulses, are imposed upon a person at any given moment. Internal experiences are the counterpart of observational artwork. By studying their relationship I reveal the qualities of both.
I am neurodivergent by having both an Attention Neuro Divergence, "ADHD" and a Red-Green Color Processing Divergence, “color blindness”. My artwork is didactic in its departure from generalized preconceptions. Creation empowers me with a means to describe the cadence of my unique subliminal disposition in physical form, writing, and speech. The love of learning leads me to explore self-expression through various artistic media and techniques.
GROUP SHOWS
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2020 Denise Bibro Fine Art, Art From the Boros VII New York, NY
2019 School of Visual Arts Chelsea Gallery Location as Character New York, NY
2018 Garment District Art Elevated New York, NY
2018 The Art Hub N.Y.C Masquerade Brooklyn, NY
2018 The Roots of An Artist Multicultural Art Expo Brentwood, NY
2018 GreenPoint Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2017 The Art Factory, Theatre 294 Fine Art Exhibition Farmingdale, NY
2015-2016 Heckscher Museum Long Island’s Best Alumni Exhibition, Huntington, NY
HONORS/ AWARDS
2018 Garment District Art Elevated- Finalist
2016 Long Island’s Best Alumni Exhibition- Placed 4th
2016 Bay Area Friends of the Fine Arts- Honorable Mention
2016 Sayville Advocates for Visual Arts- Illustration Award
2015 Long Island's Best Alumni Exhibition- Finalist
EDUCATION
2020 Bachelor of Fine Arts, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
2015 Digital Illustration, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
2014 Automotive Design, College For Creative Studies, Detroit, MI
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COMMISSIONS
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2020 Cover art for Grey Oaks, Recording Artist, DUI (Driving Under Introspection)
2019 Cover art for Osa North, Recording Artist, Back 2 School Shopping
2018 Costume design for Davi Pena, founder of Uptown Studios NY, The Fray Motion Picture
2017 Ink caricatures for Anne Kearns Fers, CEO of Gold Star Video Productions, MSC Sid’s Club 2016
2017 Cover art for Vince Verza, Recording Artist/ Producer, The Fountain of Youth
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Cory Levy is a New York-based fine artist, craftsman, designer, and illustrator working in a wide range of visual media. He grew up in Sayville, NY, a quiet community off the southern shore of Long Island. Living amongst the ocean, flourishing vegetation and indigenous wildlife cultivated boundless curiosity. Ritualized exploration appeased his affinity for learning. Before developing into a devout creative, he studied stones, fossils, and relics from the sea.
The beginning of Levy’s formal pursuit of art education was in 2014 at the College for Creative Studies, Detroit. His automotive design course encouraged students to conceive of non-objective forms to arrange into vehicle concepts. As an alternative, he delineated preexistent areas of light and texture on paper sheets with drawn linework. This Emphasis method developed billows of an enigmatic sculptural quality. Two years later, the Heckscher Museum in Huntington, NY exhibited Charcoal Emphasis/ Unforeseen Reign of Steel 2016.
He attended the School of Visual Arts in New York City (2016-2020) and earned a BFA in Illustration. Professors there introduced an array of artistic mediums and traditional techniques of realism. Conforming to the latter brought the artist great difficulty, yet aversion led to a realization. Accepting an inclination to draw continually with observed movement, he made drawings idiosyncratic to his experience of a given moment. By 2018 Levy had learned to weld. He transformed compositions of organic mark-making into schematics for steel components. Layers, the resulting sculptures, described the subliminal process of attention as an amalgamation of masses in space. In January 2020, Denise Bibro included Glassesman 2019 at “Art From the Boros VII” in Chelsea, NY.
From June of the same year till the present day, Levy has worked at Atta Inc. This Manhattan-based fine art fabrication facility specializes in the multi-faceted process of resin casting. He produces custom furniture pieces and large-scale sculptures for prestigious artists and institutions. Some of these are the Museum of Natural History NYC, Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, Fred Eversley, and Eva Lewitt.