Wendy Letven
Wendy Letven, Big Pour, 2020. Ink on Arches Paper, 30 x 22 inch. ©Wendy Letven, courtesy Fou Gallery.
b.1962, Philadelphia, U.S.
Letven is interested in similarities in the range of natural patterns and forms. She explores a personal language of abstraction that universally implies the mechanism of space and time and the fabric of the universe.
Many of her works are created from her abstract interpretations of landscapes and natural phenomena, such as motion, resonance, rhythm and harmony. She also absorbs inspiration from other fields, including music, poetry, science and philosophy to build up an aesthetic synaesthesia shared among these different disciplines. She juxtaposes the geometric with the organic, symmetry and asymmetry, and lyricism, seeking to translate and communicate something of the sheer excitement and energy she perceives. She always combines unrelated lines, shapes and symbols to pursue a deeper level of harmony from seemingly disparate visual entities, with a strong belief in an omnipresent, deeper order of life rather than randomness.
Wendy Letven is a multidisciplinary artist working in sculpture, installation and painting in the New York area. Raised in Philadelphia, she received a B.F.A. from Tyler School of Art and an M.F.A. from Hunter College. She currently teaches Art and Design at New York University and at Parsons School of Design. She has created installations for Urban Outfitter Headquarter (Philadelphia, 2020), PULSE Art Fair (Miami, 2019), Governor's Island Portal Artfair (New York, 2019), Art on Paper Fair (New York, 2019), Market Art + Design (Bridgehampton, New York, 2019), Flatiron Prow Artspace (New York, 2018), and The Sheila R. Johnson Gallery at the New School (New York, 2018) among others. She is a MacDowell Colony Fellow and a recipient of a Workspace Grant from Dieu Donne Papermill in New York.
Exhibition
Wendy Letven: Lines Falling Together in Time
Feb. 29–Jul. 18, 2020
News
Wendy Letven: Patterns of Thought
Brookfield Place - Retail and Winter Garden
February 1, 2022 - April 4, 2022
Patterns of Thought is a new series of three-dimensional wall sculptures by New York-based multidisciplinary artist, Wendy Letven, commissioned by Arts Brookfield for Brookfield Place. Each of the five colorful sculptures in the exhibition are a poetic representation of a different function or varying state of the human mind, translated through the language of pattern.