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...An email with your comments, shipping or payment questions is a good place to start. I am always open to commissions for paintings or murals. Your design or mine.
Jess Level was lured to Spain by an attractive woman named Pilar. Choosing to paint and having suffered all the consequences from that choice, Jess becomes a poor but famous artist in that weird and beautifully complicated land.
" To us, and winter
Jess Level
2019
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My exciting, wordy, yet compelling curriculum vital is also available in PDF format..." 108 paintings and drawings...a Jess Level overload of thoughts and observations..."
" ...Painting things as they should be, not as they are since 1971 "
On Jess Level...
Jess Level was lured to Spain by an attractive woman named Pilar. Choosing to paint and having suffered all the consequences from that choice, Jess becomes a poor but famous artist in that weird and beautifully complicated land.
1997-1999... Jess studies with Julián Gomez and Antonio Marquez in Cáceres,. The light came out as did the bull fighters, while the paintings within the paintings became the standard and Manolin de Somiedo becomes a household word, for more than a few.
" ...These are rich and well painted reflection's by a different sort of American whose vision of my country is just and flattering..."
Cáceres, Spain 2000
... 1991 Jess crashes classes at the Savannah College of art and design. Then crashes classes at the New York school of art in 1992. On to teaching at a private college in Arizona in 1993 and meets the lovely Pilar. After many months in Mexico and Belize Jess washes up on those sunny beaches of Madrid (sic) 10 October 1994.
A new life.
A new life.
A new language.
New rules...
The freak show begins.
" ...Why would you want to waste such
quantities of paint and canvas on that, son...? "
Bill Papas
Bill Papas
Portland, Oregon 1988
Maria Llános was the first to show Jess Level in 1999, Cáceres, Spain. The murals were to follow in Málaga, Granada, Lisbon, Huelva, Nava Moral de la Mata, and Asturias...
...The road ends in Oviedo 2009 after many battles with both love and State, consequences that fell together from choices made and the theft many, many paintings by one Rosa Maria Valdes Martinez...
Thanks. That didn't help.
Thanks. That didn't help.
Jess Level lives in the
Pacific Northwest
of the United States.
of the United States.
" To us, and winter
in Madrid "
Jess Level
2019
Paintings stolen from my studio Oviedo, Spain 8/2007
32 days in the concentration camp "Capuchinos" Malaga, Spain
All pieces are ©JL2015, and may not be copied or used without written permission. If you wish to use a piece contact: jlevel77@gmail.com
Otherwise, and it's weird, but we know who you are...go figure. Play fair, and everybody wins.
Thanks...
J.Level