Marsha Levin-Rojer

Marsha Levin-Rojer holds a degree in Mathematics from Temple University and received formal art training as a Certificate Student at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts where she won several prizes for drawing and painting. She has participated in many juried as well as invitational shows throughout the United States and has works held in both public and private collections.

Artist Statement
‘Song of the Sirens’ was created for a Princeton Artist Alliance show inspired by Homer’s Odyssey. It is a ‘musical’ landscape where line represents the melody, the intersection of lines become harmony, and the intersection of planes both infuse and become the landscape. I tried to capture both the sensual allure of the Sirens’ call and the underlying threat that it posed. The seascape reflects the agitation created as Odysseus’ crew sailed furiously to escape the threat of capture.

My work is fairly eclectic, including both drawings and paintings, and seems to be following several different paths that share a common theme: what Virginia Woolf describes as ‘Moments of Being’ -- a moment of heightened consciousness when one transcends the self and becomes an undifferentiated part of a greater whole. I am especially interested in our perception of reality, of what is perceived as concrete but is, in fact, evanescent. Throughout my work, forms are both created and, by their essential randomness, destroyed and it is hoped that the state of flux engages the viewer both visually and intellectually.