"While some art heightens our sense of reality, Corwin Levi's [artworks] open the door to the unknown. Levi eschews horizons in favor of submersion. The effect? We drown in stars, waves, and words. Place and time remain mysterious. These paintings evoke maps and star charts, but there are no legends or grids. There is no compass rose to help us orient ourselves. Lines, resembling roads, lead nowhere. Words offer little direction. Though some storybook figures and waves seem familiar, the appropriated skillfully merges with the invented to create a unique experience, one that embraces mystery over answers."

—Michelle Aldredge for Eutopia.us

Corwin Levi is a visual artist who works in design, illustration, bookmaking, curating, and writing.

He has attended over twenty artist residencies and has lived in nineteen cities across thirteen states. Fellowships include the Roswell Artist-in-Residence Program, Ucross Foundation for the Arts, the Millay Colony, Elsewhere, the Wurlitzer Foundation, and the H.A. Rey Center.

Levi co-created Mirror Mirrored: An Artists’ Edition of 25 Grimms’ Tales and contributed interior illustrations to Robert Bly’s Truer than True: The Wisdom of Fairy Tales.

He has been a regular writer for Gwarlingo and Art New England, painted a 175-foot-long mural across from MASS MoCA, has exhibited in and curated shows across America, and is a partner in the design firm Gwarlingo Studio.

He is currently remixing vintage game boards and making a book from illustrations of Alice in Wonderland.

corwin @ uzzlepye . com

(The photograph is of Corwin’s studio assistant, Bernice Clementine Casey.)