Evolution
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Having dipped my first toe into living out west in 1978, this infatuation overcame me in a new bout of restlessness. It was time to go. I left Boston in 1985 for San Francisco. The main reason though, was not to escape New Jersey (the reason I moved to Boston years earlier), but to be an artist. Boston at that time was very limiting for a young visual artist, and I needed opportunities. So, off I went.
That first year was very lonely, and therefore I painted the deep loneliness from my room which overlooked the foggy hills above Cole Valley, picking up stylistically where I left off earlier that year. By the end of 1985, I decided to return to art school.
Above Left: Untitled Acrylic #1, © Alexandria Levin, 1985 – acrylic on canvasboard, (size unrecorded)
Above Center: Untitled Acrylic #2, © Alexandria Levin, 1985 – acrylic on canvasboard (size unrecorded)
Above Right: Untitled Self-Portrait, © Alexandria Levin, 1986 – oil on canvas, 20x18"
