Elsha Leventis, artist, eyescapes, water color, oils, Mississauga, Toronto, Markham, GTA, artist, watercolour artist, artist, Elsha Leventis
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2011

The Artist Project Toronto

March 3 – 6

The Artist Project New York

March 17 – 20

2010

The Artist Project

March 4 – 7

Peripheral Vision

RedEye Studio Gallery
June


Galleries

Canvas Gallery

950 Dupont Street, Toronto      416-532-5275      www.canvasgallery.ca

In2Art Gallery

136 Church Street, Unit 2a, Oakville      905-582-6739      www.in2artgallery.com

RedEye Gallery

Studio 102, Case Goods Warehouse, Building 74, The Distillery District, 55 Mill Street, Toronto      www.redeyestudiogallery.com

PI Fine Art, Toronto

1180 Caledonia Road Toronto      416-789-7156      www.pifineart.com

Viva Vida Art Gallery, Montreal (Pointe Claire Village)

48 avenue Sainte-Anne Pointe-Claire, QC      514-694-1110      www.vivavidaartgallery.com


Selected Exhibitions

Painterly and expressive responses to the intricate landscape of the iris, in oils and mediums on Mylar, and watercolour on paper.
February 2009: Toronto Art Expo, Metro Toronto Convention Centre
August–September 2009: Square Foot Show, AWOL Gallery
August-September 2009: Soft Focus, RedEye Studio Gallery and The Distillery
October 2009: Vis-a-Vis Show, Arta Gallery
June 2008: Solo show, Eye to Eye I, Balzac's Upstairs, The Distillery District.
June 2008: Solo show, Eye to Eye II, RedEye Gallery, The Distillery District.
May 2008: Group show, Open Doors, The Distillery District.
Peripheral Vision I October 2007: Interpretations: joint show with Po Chun Lau at RedEye Gallery.
September 29, 2007: Nuit Blanche, Distillery.
August 2007: Group show RedEye Gallery and group show, Covent Garden Gallery, Wellington, Ontario.
April 2007: Solo show, RedEye Gallery.
December 2006: Art Is Better Than Underpants, Hangman Gallery.
April and October 2006: Solo shows, RedEye Gallery, as well as group shows in August and December.
November 2006: Little Art Show and Whodunit, OCAD.
July 2006 and July 2003: Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition, Nathan Phillips Square.
March 2003: InsideArt Expo, Metro Toronto Convention Center.
November 2002: First Prize, Colour and Form Society, 50th Annual Open Juried Show, Etobicoke Civic Center Art Gallery.
November 2002: VoiceOver. OCAD Gallery, Toronto.
April 2002: Exelerator: three artists: Joint University of Toronto and OCAD collaboration, featuring the work of Barbara Astman, John Massey, Reinhard Reitzenstein, as well as several OCAD students.
May 2002: OCAD Open House show of graduate work.
April 2002: Tusk Gallery, group show as part of OCAD Go West show.


Publications

March 2009: Canadian House & Home, page 111
June 2008: Canadian House & Home, page 98
February 2008: Globe & Mail, page G5
September 2007: Style At Home, page 77
2006: Art featured (briefly!) in The Sentinel, starring Michael Douglas and Kiefer Sutherland.

Education

2006: DTATI (Diploma in Art Therapy), Toronto Art Therapy Institute.
2003: Diploma in transformational psychotherapy, Transformational Arts College.
2002: AOCAD (Associate of the Ontario College of Art and Design) Drawing and Painting major.

Certificate in Publishing, Ryerson
BA and Diploma in Translation, University of Toronto.

Numerous art courses and workshops at the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto School of Art, and plain air.

Collections

Numerous works in private collections in Canada, Japan, Europe, South Africa and the United States.