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Lisa Levine
Lisa Levine
Aerial composite of swimmers in bright blue water, arranged in four horizontal bands(open larger view)

Swim #3: Song of the Sirens

2010

Archival pigment print

42″ × 70″

From the series Swim

Lisa Levine is a fine art photographer and educator who creates large-scale artworks for public spaces.

Born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, she has worked in her Oakland studio for more than twenty-five years. About Lisa Levine

Chapter ICurrent work

Virtually No Place Like Home

Virtually No Place Like Home explores the blurred boundary between fact and fiction.

Yellow ranch house with a garage, an American flag and garden statues on a dry plain

Art Lover House

Archival pigment print on photo rag paper

  • Narrow house covered in multicolored polka dots beside a bare tree under storm clouds

    Cloud House

  • Grey shingled cabin with a Virgin Mary statue and blue chairs on a dry plain

    Blue Mary's House

    Exhibited: de Young Museum, San Francisco, Bay Area Artists, 2020

  • Teal two-story house with an American flag, ringed by tire-skid circles on pavement

    Donut House

  • Turquoise bungalow with a red stair between Joshua trees and boulders

    Gargoyle House

  • Pink house with glowing angels and a light-covered tree at night

    Pretty in Pink House

  • Gabled house with a star on top and star-shaped lights across the lawn

    Christmas Star House

A selection of 101 works from the series

View Virtually No Place Like Home

Chapter II

Photographic series

Three further series. The works are archival pigment prints and dye sublimation prints on metal, many of them composites gathered from many photographs.

  1. Grid of photographs of windblown green grass, tiled edge to edge

    The Grass is Always Greener

    Dye sublimation print on metal

    40″ × 66.5″

    0124 works

    Topographies

    Digital collage of natural elements.

    “I use the rigidity of the photographic picture plane and the grid structure as points of departure while looking for organic rhythms to emerge.”

    Lisa Levine, from her statement for Topographies
  2. Three tall container-port cranes rising through layered blue and violet textures

    Another Port

    Archival pigment print

    42″ × 42″

    0235 works

    Somewhere

    Digital collage photographs.

    “The idea of making one photograph of any given moment in time is not enough for me. I prefer to gather together many moments, each with its own unique characteristics, into one unified whole.”

    Lisa Levine, from her statement for Somewhere
    Black-and-white photograph of a woman in a vintage swimsuit posing among tiled palm trees on a beach

    Smokin' Liz

    Archival pigment print on board with cold wax

    24″ × 24″

    0325 works

    Past Tense

    Digital collage utilizing vintage photographs.

    Past Tense gives found portraits renewed presence.

All photographic series

Chapter III

Public art

Public art provides people with opportunities to encounter art in everyday life.

Large-scale photographic works for hospitals, universities and public spaces, in glass, metal, porcelain on steel, tile and vinyl.

Current commissions

Installed work
  • Artwork design shown as five tall panels: a brightly coloured collage of firefighters climbing a ladder and aiming a hose, with a white dog

    Design — five panelsIn progress

    Fire Training Center

    Location
    Dublin, California
    Commissioned by
    Alameda County Art Commission
    Materials
    Powder-coated steel with ceramic frit printing
    Scale
    5 panels, 36″ × 110″ each

    Due for installation late 2026 – early 2027

  • Architectural rendering: a large square artwork in blue, green and copper tones on the façade of a pale building beside a tall glass entrance

    RenderingIn progress

    Data Center Building

    Location
    Sunnyvale, California
    Materials
    Powder-coated steel with ceramic frit printing
    Scale
    48′ × 48′

    Due for installation late 2026 – early 2027

Installed work

  1. Lobby with a sofa below a wall of windows printed with a colorful urban collage

    01Installation view

    923 Folsom

    923 Folsom Street, San Francisco · Commissioned 2017

    With Peter Tonningsen (Counterpoint)

  3. Four photographs of a tile mural of campus arches set into a brick gateway, including a worker installing tiles

    03Installation view

    Texas Tech University

    Location
    Rawls Golf Course Team Facility, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX
    Setting
    Outdoor gateway
    Commissioned by
    Texas Tech University
    Collaboration
    Counterpoint (Lisa Levine and Peter Tonningsen)
    Materials
    Tile mural
    Scale
    4′ × 12′
    Commissioned
    2014

All public art projects

Exhibitions and collections

Exhibited at the de Young Museum; the Oakland Museum; the Griffin Museum of Photography; and the Dortort Center Gallery, UCLA. In the collections of the Alameda County Art Commission; the SF Public Utilities Commission; and Kaiser Permanente.

Exhibitions, collections and CV

Inquiries

Commissions, acquisitions, exhibitions.

Curators, art consultants, architects and collectors are welcome to write to Lisa Levine directly. Please mention the work or project you have in mind and, for a commission, the site.

LisaLevinePhoto@yahoo.com