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Chris Levine  Lightness of Being

Chris Levine

Lightness of Being, 2021

gelatin silver print

21.73h x 17.51w in

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Chris Levine  Lightness of Being (Series 3, no. 3)

Chris Levine

Lightness of Being (Series 3, no. 3), 2020

silkscreen print with fluoro and diamond dust

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Chris Levine  Lightness of Being (blue)

Chris Levine

Lightness of Being (blue), 2015

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Chris Levine  Equanimity 1

Chris Levine

Equanimity 1, 2022

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Chris Levine  Equanimity 2

Chris Levine

Equanimity 2, 2022

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Chris Levine  Equanimity 7

Chris Levine

Equanimity 7, 2022

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Chris Levine  Equanimity 19

Chris Levine

Equanimity 19, 2022

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Chris Levine  Equanimity 23

Chris Levine

Equanimity 23, 2022

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Chris Levine  Equanimity 29

Chris Levine

Equanimity 29, 2022

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Chris Levine  Equanimity 40

Chris Levine

Equanimity 40, 2022

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Chris Levine  Equanimity 44

Chris Levine

Equanimity 44, 2022

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Chris Levine  Equanimity 46

Chris Levine

Equanimity 46, 2022

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Chris Levine  Equanimity 51

Chris Levine

Equanimity 51, 2022

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Chris Levine  Equanimity 53

Chris Levine

Equanimity 53, 2022

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Chris Levine  Equanimity 57

Chris Levine

Equanimity 57, 2022

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Chris Levine  Lightness of Being

Chris Levine

Lightness of Being, 2021

gelatin silver print

21.73h x 17.51w in

Ed. of 25

Chris Levine  Lightness of Being (Series 3, no. 3)

Chris Levine

Lightness of Being (Series 3, no. 3), 2020

silkscreen print with fluoro and diamond dust

36.22h x 28.35w in

Ed. of 5

Chris Levine  Lightness of Being (blue)

Chris Levine

Lightness of Being (blue), 2015

Giclee Print

25.20h x 18.90w in

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Chris Levine  Equanimity 1

Chris Levine

Equanimity 1, 2022

silkscreen print

18.5h x 14.96w in

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Chris Levine  Equanimity 2

Chris Levine

Equanimity 2, 2022

silkscreen print

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Chris Levine  Equanimity 7

Chris Levine

Equanimity 7, 2022

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Chris Levine  Equanimity 19

Chris Levine

Equanimity 19, 2022

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Chris Levine  Equanimity 23

Chris Levine

Equanimity 23, 2022

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Chris Levine  Equanimity 29

Chris Levine

Equanimity 29, 2022

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Chris Levine  Equanimity 40

Chris Levine

Equanimity 40, 2022

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Chris Levine  Equanimity 44

Chris Levine

Equanimity 44, 2022

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Chris Levine  Equanimity 46

Chris Levine

Equanimity 46, 2022

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Chris Levine  Equanimity 51

Chris Levine

Equanimity 51, 2022

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Chris Levine  Equanimity 53

Chris Levine

Equanimity 53, 2022

silkscreen print

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Chris Levine  Equanimity 57

Chris Levine

Equanimity 57, 2022

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Biography

Chris Levine is a light artist who works across many mediums in pursuit of an expanded state of perception and awareness through image and form. Levine’s work considers light not just as a core aspect of art, but of human experience more widely and a spiritual, meditative and philosophical edge permeates his work. Levine is perhaps best known for producing what is already being described as one of the most iconic images of the twenty-first century, Lightness of Being. With light and stillness at its core, the sensational portrait of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II presents an utterly fresh depiction of the most famous woman in the world. The National Portrait Gallery stated it was the most evocative image of a royal by any artist.

Levine’s practice is differentiated by the cross-fertilization across many creative fields including music, performance, installation, fashion and design in a multitude of projects.

His exhibition Hypervisual 1.2 completed a tour of 12 countries with the British Council. In 2012 his work featured in the major exhibition, Queen and Image at London’s National Portrait Gallery. He has had artwork in London’s Science Museum and has staged light performances and exhibitions internationally in spaces such as Radio City in New York commissioned by MoMA, The Eden Project, The Royal Opera House, MATE museum in Lima, London’s Fine Art Society and the headline installation at MOFO festival for Tasmania’s MONA museum.

Levine’s status as one of the World’s leading light artists has led to a number of high profile cross media collaborations from Massive Attack, Hussein Chalayan, Antony and the Johnsons, Kate Moss, Grace Jones and Jon Hopkins and has produced work for Chanel, BMW and Swarovski. He has recently completed another historic portrait to commemorate the Dalai Lama’s 80th birthday to raise funds for the victims of Nepal’s recent earthquake. He is only the second artist to take a formal portrait of His Holiness, the previous being Annie Leibovitz.

The Queen

Chris Levine was commissioned by the Jersey Heritage Trust to create a portrait of Queen Elizabeth II in 2004. The portrait was to mark 800 years of allegiance to the Crown by the Island of Jersey.

‘Equanimity’ was presented to the National Portrait Gallery by the people of Jersey in 2011. In 2012 it was repurposed in a new work, ‘The Diamond Queen’, featuring 1,100 white diamonds, created with the London jeweller Asprey; and it has appeared on a holographic £10 Jersey stamp and the £100 Jersey banknote.

An earlier version of ‘Equanimity’ had already toured to the National Gallery Complex, Edinburgh; National Museums Northern Ireland, Belfast and National Museum Cardiff as part of The Queen: Art and Image exhibition. The exhibition also included the work ‘Lightness of Being’ by Chris Levine, an image derived from the sittings for Equanimity which depicts the monarch with her eyes closed.

They were chosen as the opening and closing pieces to the show and were seen by over half a million people from 17th May to the 21st October 2012.

The iconic body work has since had international acclaim and has been editioned through the Fine Art Society, London.

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