Lecture by Realist Painter Set for April 17
For release: April 1, 2003

Realist Painter Matvey Levenstein will talk about his work on Thursday, April 17 at 7 p.m. The lecture, free and open to the public, was rescheduled and now will take place in Manning Auditorium, Room 201 on The University of Memphis campus.

Levenstein resides in New York City but was born in the U.S.S.R. and attended the Moscow Architectural Institute from 1977 to 1979. He received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the School of the Art Institute in Chicago and a Master of Fine Arts degree from Yale University in 1987.

He has an extensive exhibition record including two solo shows at the Jack Tilton gallery in New York. His work has been included in group exhibitions at the Drawing Center, White Columns, The Sculpture Center, and Ace, Matthew Marks and Marianne Boesky Galleries, all of New York, as well as at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Miami. In addition, Levenstein's work has been reviewed in ArtForum, The Miami Herald, The Village Voice, Arts Magazine and The New York Times.

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