This weekend I exhibited some drawings at Verge: Art Brooklyn with Firecat Projects, a new gallery venture by Tony Fitzpatrick and Stan Klein where they take no percentage of sales from their artists.
We had a grand time, some of my insect drawings found new homes, and Tony wrote some spectacular words about the fair and about my work.
“Lauren Levato is 33 years old — she makes exquisite drawings of insects — sensual, silent and pristine — her cicadas remind me of childhood summers that were too short and too long ago — they have a yesterday kind of beauty, like an old violet saved in a book. She is a tough Irish hillbilly from Hobart, Indiana — the daughter of a steelworker, who spent all of her summers wandering tall prairie grass and the Indiana dunes collecting crickets, cicadas and grasshoppers, and beating up boys. Her drawings are truly special.”
These are generous and humbling words from an artist like Tony. I was honored to be at the show and am really excited to be preparing an entire show of insect drawings for Firecat in June.
Here’s the article in its entirety. Put it on your calendar, we’ll probably be back next year.
The Case for Art Brooklyn by Tony Fitzpatrick
Lauren Levato and Tony Fitzpatrick at Firecat Projects, Verge: Art Brooklyn, March 2011 (above)
- Tony Fitzpatrick and Stan Klein at Firecat Projects, Verge: Art Brooklyn, March 2011 (below)
