Hannah Levy

“Our bodies can be both beautiful and, let’s face it, kind of gross. Working with silicone, the same material used for prosthetics, artist Hannah Levy creates anthropomorphic sculptures that often resemble design objects but capture the dimpled, flaccid, and sometimes comical traits of flesh. An eight-foot-long asparagus supported by polished-steel claws has just the right droop to appear overcooked yet strikingly human. A nude-color hoodie recalls a bubble-wrapped strait jacket. Other sculptures feature colorful seats that hang like clothing from elegant steel frames whose proportions are too off to be real chairs. Industrial design, in fact, was what Levy thought she would pursue before she came under the spell of making art…“I think a lot about furniture and the history of design and our relationship to it,” she says from her South Bronx studio. “It’s a play on the skin-and-bone furniture of the modernists but taken to a funny or surreal place.”

-Galerie Magazine

Photo credit: Anders Sune Berg

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