Lot 413 - Lorena Levi - Twice a Day

Oil on paper
2025
A6 (10x15cm)
Original Artwork
Signed on Verso
Curated by Art on a Postcard

About
Lorena Levi is a London-based narrative painter. Her practice is research-based using the internet; through podcasts, published psychoanalytical papers, chatroom sites, and Reddit forums, to create works that merge the traditional practice of oil painting with current technology and subject matter. Levi collages found images to create imagined narratives that display her unique ability to capture and create intricate and intriguing psychological relationships between her sitters.

Education
2015-2016
Art Foundation, City and Guilds London Art School

2016-2021
MFA Fine Art, University of Edinburgh, Scotland

Solo Exhibitions
2022
Would give zero stars, Alchemy Experiment, Glasgow, United Kingdom

2023
The In between, The Sidings curated by Nicole Zisman, London, United Kingdom
MAXXED, Art MAMA, London, United Kingdom
Blistered, M+B Gallery, Milan, Italy

2024
Mirror, Mirror, Paul Stolper Gallery, London, United Kingdom

Group Exhibitions
2019
Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London, United Kingdom

2021
Hampstead Art Society Summer Exhibition, Fitzrovia Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Edinburgh College of Art Graduate Show, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Best of Degree Show 2021 Exhibition, Six Foot Gallery, Glasgow, United Kingdom
The Fifth Anniversary Show, Alveston Fine Art, London, United Kingdom

2022
Royal British Artists Annual Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London, United Kingdom
Visual Arts Association - Finalist Exhibition, Unit 1 Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Bloomberg New Contemporaries, Ferens Art Gallery, Hull, United Kingdom
Bloomberg New Contemporaries, South London Gallery, London, United Kingdom

2023
Coming Home: In search of our bodies, I.Am.Artist Agency, London, United Kingdom
The Wisdom Man, Paul Stolper Gallery, London, United Kingdom
RSA New Contemporaries, Royal Scottish Academy The Mound, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Take My Hand, Leez&Smith, Unit One Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Face to Face: a Celebration of Portraiture, Marlborough Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Fores Project Residency showcase, London, United Kingdom

2024
Smoking Gun, Shipton, New York City, United States of America
Homo Viator, Willow Art Space, London, United Kingdom

Awards
2023
NHS Lothian Charity Tonic Arts Award

2022
Bloomberg New Contemporaries

2022
Jacksons Painting Prize Overall Winner

2021
Astaire Art Prize

Gallery Representation
Marlborough Gallery (London, United Kingdom) 2023 until closure

Public Collections
Government Art Collection, London, UK
US Embassy, Rome, Italy

Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork
These paintings have all been done during the time of personal health issues in the last month and a half. The paintings are snippets of narratives during periods of medical investigations as well as time resting in between. 'Le Lit solo' is a take on the Leutrec painting 'Le Lit' where it shows a couple in bed, however here it is a solo person enveloped in sheets, however these sheets are surgical sheets and this is a snapshot taken just before a medical procedure.