Si Levin

Artist’s Statement

“A painting is a body made of light and silence and I only dress it in color.”

I never quite know what I’m painting at first.

It begins with a pull — soft, irrational. A shadow that arrives without form. A feeling that hums beneath language. I follow it. I listen. And slowly, I begin to shape what cannot be spoken.

The canvas is not passive — it responds. It holds memory, tension, tenderness. It’s a body before it’s an image. When I paint, I move through it with a kind of intimacy. Color becomes breath. Texture becomes skin. What emerges is not an answer, but a presence. Something layered, veiled and quietly insistent.

I don’t paint to explain. I paint to reveal. To awaken. To remember something unnamed, but known.

And then it leaves me.

Once a painting finds its place in someone else’s world, it changes. It listens to different light. It softens in new silences. It begins a conversation that has nothing to do with me — and everything to do with the person who lets it in.

This is the art I believe in: not fixed, but felt. Not decorative, but alive.

A painting may begin in my hands — but it continues in yours.

What I offer is not a picture, but a presence — something that lingers even after you’ve looked away.

— S. Levin
Top Contemporary Artist Of Today
(Gold List)