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Geoff Levitus has been an exhibiting artist since approximately 1981, and has had over 25 solo exhibitions and been part of many more group exhibitions both in Australia and overseas. His practice ranges from painting, work on paper and sculpture to video and installation work. The recurring theme in his work is the subject of identity and belonging, and long periods of working in different parts of the world from France, Spain and Italy to South America, New York, and in Asia from India to many parts of South-East Asia, particularly Vietnam, have led to a sustained exploration of cross-cultural connections and fertilization.
His work is also characterised by an investigative approach to the use of different media and ranges in style from the representational to the abstract, often now mixing the two. While this may be unsettling to those wishing to see a continuity of approach, it typifies Levitus’ need to find the appropriate medium to express his concerns, which could be whittled down to being a search to express our basic humanity, or lack of it, and the things which connect us, which can range from personal relationships and beautiful decoration to the horrors of colonialism, war, environmental destruction and greed. He often uses seductive surfaces to draw the viewer in to discover other layers with different meanings.
Geoff Levitus has an MA in Visual Arts from the City Art Institute (now COFA at UNSW), has had residencies in Vietnam (Hue and Hanoi), the Cite Internationale des Arts in Paris, and the New England Regional Art Museum, and has work in several public collections in Australia.

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Date written:

2014

Last updated:

2014