David Levinthal | America America! Online Artist Talk

David Levinthal scrutinizes our world – past and present – absorbing, depicting, interpreting, and envisioning events, from the ordinary to the momentous, blurring the line between veracity and fantasy. Art is about ideas. Art gives us something to think about. This is why David Levinthal plays with toys!

– Barbara Hitchcock, Curator – America! America!

We are thrilled to host creative image maker David Levinthal in the Griffin Zoom Room on Tuesday January 24th at 7pm for an evening of conversation about his creative journey and mid career retrospective at the museum America! America!

This event is FREE to members, $10 for Non Members. Register for this engaging conversation below.

About David Levinthal –

Since the early 1970’s, David Levinthal has been exploring the relationship between photographic imagery and the fantasies, myths, events, and characters that shape contemporary American’s mental landscape. His work has been a touchstone for conversations about theories of representation in photography and contemporary art as he has investigated the overlapping of popular imagery with personal fantasy through all of his major series including Hitler Moves East, Modern Romance, Wild West, Desire, Blackface, Barbie, Baseball, and History. In 2018, the George Eastman Museum presented David Levinthal: War, Myth, Desire, the largest retrospective of his work to date accompanied by the most comprehensive publication ever produced on his work. He has received a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and a Guggenheim Fellowship. His work is exhibited widely and part of the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, the Whitney Museum of American Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Carnegie Museum of Art, The Menil Collection, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

America! America! Exploring History, Myth and Memory is on the walls of the Griffin Museum until June 5th, 2022.