Aubrey Levinthal

2024-2025

We as humans have an unhealthy predisposition to filling air to the brim with words, space with objects and running around until we’re out of breath. We may be so terrified of emptiness that we tremble when we are impatient or speak too much when we are nervous. It is the rare guru that can sit quietly for hours and celebrate pause. The paintings of Aubrey Levinthal inhabit these moments, the time in-between. Mouths are purposefully closed, the work is remarkably quiet.. 

Unique to this exhibition are three of Levinthal’s preparatory studies. These intimate works on paper, introduce Levinthal’s characters and motifs and share her process for creating her complex paintings.

Aubrey Levinthal (b. 1986, Philadelphia, PA) received an MFA from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts (PAFA), Philadelphia, PA and a BA from The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA. She is a three-time recipient of an Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant. Recent exhibitions include Haverkampf Galerie, Berlin; M + B, Los Angeles, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London: Grimm, London, curated by Russell Tovey; Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland; and Monya Rowe Gallery, NY. Levinthal’s work was also included in the group exhibition “A Place for Me: Figurative Painting Now” at The Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), Boston in 2022. The artist lives and works in Philadelphia, PA and is represented by Monya Rowe Gallery, NY.