Janice Levy

b. 1957, American
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Out of Place

Janice Levy: "Covered Car" Antananarivo, Madagascar

Janice Levy: "Victoria Falls" Antananarivo, Madagascar

Janice Levy: "Floating Fruit" Antananarivo, Madagascar

Janice Levy: "Titanic Mural" Diego Suarez, Madagascar

Janice Levy: "Coco Guitot" Antananarivo, Madagascar

Janice Levy: "Dr. Pigny's Waiting Room" Antananarivo, Madagascar

Janice Levy: "Local Products Sold Here" Antananarivo, Madagascar

Janice Levy: "Amusement Park" Antananarivo, Madagascar

Janice Levy: "Brick Wall" Antananarivo, Madagascar

Janice Levy: "Go Kart Racing" Outside Antananarivo

Janice Levy: "Embroidery for Sale" Nosy Iranja, Madagascar

Janice Levy: "Military Band Instruments" Antananarivo, Madagascar

Janice Levy: "On the Road to the Ivato" Antananarivo, Madagascar

Janice Levy: "Resort Hotel" Fianarantsoa, Madagascar

Janice Levy: "La Digue" Antananarivo, Madagascar

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Janice Levy Bio

Chronology
1957	Born, Boston, MA

1988	I met and formed a close personal relationship with Arnold Newman. He remained my friend and mentor until his death in June, 2006.

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Awards
2004	Honickman Book Award Finalist ( One of 13 finalists chosen from more than 1,200 applicants), Center for Documentary Studies, Duke University

1998	Light Work Grant, Syracuse, NY

1998	New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA), NYC, NY

1990	National Kellogg Fellowship Award, Battle Creek, MI

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Solo Exhibitions
2006	Museum of Antigua and Barbuda, St. Johns, Antigua

2004	Handwerker Gallery, Ithaca, NY

2004	Dana Art Gallery, Wellesley, MA

2003	Spectrum Gallery, Rochester, NY

2001	Mary Washington Galleries, Mary Washington College, Fredricksburg, VA

1997	CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, NY

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Group Exhibitions
2008	Shepherd Center Foundation, Atlanta, Georgia

2006	Photomedia Center Online Exhibition,

2005	State of the Art Gallery, Ithaca, NY

2005	Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

2005	George Waters Gallery, Elmira College, Elmira, NY

1998	Light Work Gallery, Syracuse, NY

1994	Lewis Center Gallery, Washington University, St. Louis, MO

1994	Midwest Photographic Invitational,

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Collections

Harvard University, Currier House, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY

Museum of Modern Art Library, NYC, NY

The Shepherd Center Foundation, Atlanta, Georgia

University of Michigan Library, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

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Education
1984 - 1986	University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MFA in Photography
	Studied with Phil Davis

Janice Levy Statement

Artist Statement

Distance, both physical and emotional, from something once familiar but never really owned, provides a compelling perspective from which to work. Out of Place comes from that region of intellect. It is an expression of my own examination of what it is like to return to a place that has been thoroughly explored and yet remains totally foreign.

It was 2001, and I was in Madagascar again. Five years had passed since I last photographed the people and places of the great red island. Much had changed. Madagascar had been besieged by an aesthetic sensibility heavily influenced by a newly emerging global economy. A country I had thoroughly explored in five previous visits was now foreign to me. The color photographs I was taking were completely different from the black-and-white documentary images I had made earlier.
Out of Place embodies the feeling of being both insider and outsider – and the uneasy excitement that results from that tenuous state. A sense of reality breaks down; inanimate objects appear full of life and personality, and sometimes humor; figure ground relationships distort; and cultural markers become parody.

In my experience, atypical representations of the developing world are rare and refreshing. In addition to showing more viewers a Madagascar they might not have imagined, the objects in Out of Place have a universal element that transcends locale. Perhaps, by examining the world presented here, observers will be inspired to reexamine their own surroundings.

Process Statement
The images on this website appear as they were made. None have been cropped or digitally manipulated. I took the photographs between mid-January and mid-July 2001 with a Mamiya 7II camera using Kodak Portra 120 VC film

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