Rebecca Leveille

Boston inhabitant, Rebecca Leveille is a distinguished contemporary American artist who creates her paintings using figurative forms, images that hark to art historical sources and modern-day paintings. Inspired by masters who include Fragonard, Kara Walker, and Walter Robinson, Leveille creates her work through pictorial practices and inner mythologies, translating the artist’s unique subjects that are extracted from her imagination.

From the 90s until 2011, Leveille’s accomplishments working as an illustrator was thanks to the intriguing figures and drawings she artfully created. Leveille was the recipient of an array of awards, additionally being recognized as a special guest at various events throughout the United States, as well as in Japan, Australia, Italy, Spain, and France. Within her artistic journey that investigates the poetic versus the literal, the painter reconnoiters an assortment of notions which include the female gaze, sensuality, media imagery and social phenomena that occupy the art world.

Materials are fundamental components that contribute to Leveille’s arts – paints are thick and buttery thus create the assertive wide lines expressed in her choice of oils, whilst washes drift below impastos and pencil and graphite powder contribute to the marks and streaks.