Michaell LeVell
Michael has an innate ability to draw furniture and architecture in perfect perspective; he uses this ability to produce intricate sculptures in clay as well. His devotion to the magazine Architectural Digest inspires Michael's creative process. He often recreates photo spreads with his own original repeated visual motifs and color palette. Michael’s work was recently exhibited in San Francisco as part of the Insights exhibition, organized by the Lighthouse Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired. His work has also been featured in the traveling exhibit Barrier Free Art Summit, which took place in post offices in Okinawa, Fukuka, and Miyazaki Japan. Other shows include the prestigious Outsider Art Fair in New York City in 1996 and Created In California at the Berenberg Gallery in Boston. His work was included in the exhibition, The View From Here, which featured visually impaired artists, at LA Artcore in Los Angeles in 2004. Michael is one of the original eight artists who helped found First Street Gallery studio program in 1989. Michael, who has been diagnosed with autism, is deaf and legally blind. He was born in 1964 and lives in Pomona, California.
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