"A couple of years ago I started to look up, and the Cloud Series began unfolding. With this series, I seek balance in the careening emotional seas I navigate. Each piece is based directly on one of the thousands of photographs I keep taking, each a distinct moment in a specific space where I stand witness to the endless surge and change above and all around me. " Laura Lou Levy

Laura Lou Levy has a BA in Fine Arts from Indiana University, Bloomington and Universidad Complutense, Madrid, as well as an MFA in Painting from Pratt Institute, Brooklyn. A native of Kentucky, she spent years in Brooklyn and Manhattan before migrating to Maplewood, New Jersey. She now makes her home by Pines Lake in northern New Jersey. Levy has continuously devoted time to art-making, showing her drawings and paintings in galleries, nonprofit spaces, and museums. Her work has been mentioned, featured, and reviewed in publications including The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Star Ledger, and American Artist. It is in private collections in the US, Spain, England, France, and Israel, including Seagram, Dow Jones, the Brooklyn Art Library, and the National Portrait Gallery at the Smithsonian Institution. Her work for 36 years as a Senior "Hedcut" Illustrator for The Wall Street Journal won numerous awards, and was featured in print and on television news. Levy's painting studio is at Manufacturer's Village in East Orange, NJ, with studio visits by appointment. My work is specific to place: I hike and climb there, in locations as disparate as the Red River Gorge in my native Kentucky, the dramatic coasts of Cape Breton - Nova Scotia and Quebec, to New Brunswick and Newfoundland, returning again and again to coastal Maine. I explore space in my drawings and paintings –negative space, and how it stretches deep. Surface is important to me, and the calm shapes land makes: the sensual curve of mountains, the distant undulation of a watery horizon, a river’s meandering sway .