Tierra del Sol Gallery presents Michael LeVell: Salient Forms, the most comprehensive survey of the artist’s five decades of artmaking. LeVell is a founding artist of Tierra del Sol Art Studios program launched in 1989.
 
Salient Forms includes LeVell’s sketches, still-lifes, interiors and detailed furniture studies, landscapes, abstract ceramics, vases as well as small ceramic furniture pieces, curated from over 5000 works made at the Tierra Art Studios. All point to LeVell’s passion for transforming his encounters with the built world into objects of desire. 

The exhibition highlights LeVell’s command and mastery of multiple mediums. Drawn particularly to Architecture Digest for inspiration, he has a collection of editions that he uses for reference material. Legally blind, LeVell pays close attention to the periodical’s pages, attuning his process of intimately rendering specificities of the built environment. This engagement compels slow looking to reveal the distinctly emotive quality of LeVell’s work, a dimensional poetics grounded in his relationship to family, place, touch and creativity. His mark making, repetition of lines and spatial sensitivity evidence his connection to tactility as language and material understanding of architectural design.

Organized by Tierra del Sol Gallery Director Paige Wery and independent curator jill moniz, Salient Forms represents the largest and most significant collection and exhibition of Michael LeVell’s work to date. The exhibition is accompanied by a full color catalog.