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16 Dec – 28 Jan
(2022)

Opening
Friday 16 Dec
17 – 20

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Levi Sebton’s project “Lately,” consists of a series of small scale paintings that form a personal journal through the mundanity of everyday life. With an eye for the ordinary, the pictures attempt to depict a presence in what is often overlooked and buried underneath.

Through a naivistic approach to painting, the pictures display a candidness in which the figurative motifs open up to an abstracting quality to convey something more than what immediately meets the eye.

“I view the exhibition as a self portrait in which the self is looking out instead of the reverse. The last months have been a transformative period and I wanted to capture it without being too literal; I wanted it to be a subtle gesture. The inspiration which has been drawn from the earnestness of George W Bush’s self portrait in the shower and in the bath, and the subtle care of the still life paintings of Morandi, form the base of the language I wanted to portray.” — Levi Sebton

Artist
Statement

Levi Sebton graduated from Royal Institute of Art in 2022. Working mainly with a visual expression derived from natural motifs, his body of work formulate its expression on the threshold between figuration and abstraction.

Links

levisebton.com
@levisebton

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Education

2020 – 2022; MFA; Royal University College of Fine Arts; Stockholm, Sweden

2017 – 2020; BFA; Royal University College of Fine Arts; Stockholm, Sweden

2016 – 2017; Konsthögskolan Bergen; Bergen, Norway

2011 – 2013; Pernbys Målarskola; Stockholm, Sweden

2009 – 2010; Färg och Form; Nyckelviksskolan; Stockholm, Sweden

2005 – 2008; Media och Fotografi; Riddarfjärdens Gymnasium; Stockholm, Sweden

Selected Solo
Exhibitions

2022; master exhibition; Royal Institute of Art; Stockholm, Sweden

Selected Group Exhibitions

2022; “Painters Salon”; Molekyl Gallery; Malmö, Sweden

2021; “Annual pt2”; CF HILL; Stockholm, Sweden

2021; “The Image As A (W)hole”; MFA graduation; Royal Institute of Art; Stockholm, Sweden

2021; Galleri Thomassen; Göteborg, Sweden

2021; “Rundgång”, Royal Institute of Art; Stockholm, Sweden

2021; ”Sources”; Royal Institute of Art; Stockholm, Sweden

2020; bachelor exhibition; Royal Institute of Art; Stockholm, Sweden

2020; ”Folding Screen Exhibition”; Royal Institute of Art; Stockholm, Sweden

2018; ”Alpha Centauri”; Künstlerhaus Stuttgart; Stuttgart, Germany

Selected Grants
and Awards