Richard Levine, born in Newark, NJ is a painter and photographer whose professional career has spanned more than 30 years in the graphic arts working for prominent design firms and corporate clients. A graduate of Fairleigh Dickinson Univ., he later studied oil painting for four years with artists Alan Turner and Andrew Lattimore and photography with Gary Winogrand. Additional studies were at Cooper Union and The School of Visual Arts, NYC. Extensive travel throughout the United States, Europe and Asia have formed the foundation for his personal work. “I’m interested in exploring the harmonious effects of light, texture, shape and color and presenting these qualities in ways that evoke memory and spirit”. Richard has exhibited widely on the East Coast from Virginia to Maine in both solo and group shows. In 2005 he won a NY State Certificate of Merit for his exhibit: India, A Traveler’s Reflections. He is a 2017/18 recipient of a Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant. He has done photo documentary work in the refugee camps of Darfur with the International Medical Corps and in Mississippi with Mississippi State Univ and The Annie E. Casey Foundation. In June, 2016 he won 2nd Place prize in the Bethesda Painting Awards, a juried competiition sponsored by the Trawick Foundation. His work is held in both private and public collections and he currently teaches painting at the Falls Church Arts Gallery.