Barbara Tepper Levy

Studio #7

Barbara Tepper Levy is originally from the New York City area, and now lives in Saugerties.    Her background is in fashion and costume design, bringing a vibrant color and line dynamic to her work. Her work was described as “pieces that have curves that evoke a sense of graceful movement,” in the Northern Dutchess News.  She believes that flowing dynamic in her work is influenced by her years of working in costuming and fashion design.  Most recently she’s been using that aesthetic to make handmade silver jewelry, set with semi-precious gems, and colorful, textured wearable fiber art.  Her art is composed of collages, black and white line-art drawings, acrylic painting, mixed metal jewelry, hand-built sculptural ceramics and wearable fiber art.  She was chosen to appear at Fall for Art in Kingston, NY in 2014 and 2015, where she showed her sculptural ceramics, and has been on the Saugerties Artists Studio Tour starting in 2013. She has taught collage at the LifeLong Learning Center at Bard College, and shown her work at the Woodstock Artists Association and Museum, the ArtBar Gallery in Kingston, NY, the Lev Shalem Gallery, Woodstock, NY, the Artists Society of Kingston, NY, the Woodstock School of Art and the Limner Gallery in Hudson, NY.  She has participated in many shows at Emerge Gallery in Saugerties since its opening, and in the Emerge shows on Artsy.net, where you can look up her art under her name.