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12-836: Jonathan LeVine is an American art dealer, instrumental in the proliferation of lowbrow and street art on the East Coast of the United States. LeVine grew up in Trenton, New Jersey. As a teenager, he encountered punk rock music and the punk scene, and began producing fanzines, promoting shows, and booking bands. He attended Montclair State University, and graduated with a degree in sculpture. Beginning in 1994, and while working at Montclair State University, LeVine became an independent curator, exhibiting punk flyers, comics, graffiti, and tattoo art at punk rock venues CBGB, Webster Hall, Max Fish and Maxwell's. Prominent artists in his early exhibitions included

24-538: Is also home to the Richard Meier Model Museum, an exhibition of architectural projects, sculptures and collages by Richard Meier . Mana Decentralized is an online and physical platform selling artworks directly to collectors, launched in April 2019. This New Jersey museum-related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Moishe%27s Moving Systems Moishe's Moving Systems

36-709: Is home to the Middle East Center for the Arts (MECA), the archives of the International Center of Photography , the estates of Jonas Mekas, Walter de Maria, Irving Penn, Dan Flavin among other; the Magnum Foundation , the dance companies of Karole Armitage and Shen Wei , and foundations established by Eileen S Kaminsky (ESKFF) and Carole Feuerman . The artist Amy Sherald has her studio in Mana (NJ). The building

48-502: Is noted for being a standout contemporary art curator, on the forefront of cutting-edge art trends. Christopher Rodgers of The Jersey Journal asserts that LeVine has "had success helping the careers of many artists." Madonna, Marilyn Manson and Mark Parker have purchased work from LeVine. Citations Bibliography Mana Contemporary Opened in May 2011, the center was founded by moving company mogul Moishe Mana . Shai Baitel and

60-765: The Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan, at 529 West 20th Street. The gallery promoted graffiti art as fine art, holding a major group show in conjunction with São Paulo's Choque Cultural gallery, in 2007. Work by eight Brazilian street and graffiti artists was exhibited as Ruas De São Paulo . That June, LeVine rented a temporary space, in the Dumbo section of Brooklyn, for Shepard Fairey's exhibition, entitled E Pluribus Venom , and in December LeVine had an international street art show called, entitled The Streets of Europe , which featured artists from France, England, and Italy. The show included

72-522: The IRS while helping to run Moishe's Moving Systems . In February 2022, Kele McComsey was appointed Mana's new director. McComsey was the President and Senior Partner of SurroundArt prior to joining Mana Contemporary in 2015. The center provides services, spaces, and programming for artists, collectors, curators, performers, students and community. It includes artist studios, exhibition spaces, and storage and

84-568: The artist Yigal Ozeri are among the co-founders. The one million square foot facility in Jersey City is situated in a 1920s-era brick former manufacturing building in the city's Marion Section near Marion Junction that is also an extension of the fine arts transportation department of Moishe's Moving Systems . In 2021 Mana Contemporary's Executive Director Eugene Lemay was placed on administrative leave due to his indictment of tax fraud and conspiracy for evading to pay nearly $ 8 million to

96-404: The contemporary artist Bo130, the graffiti artist Blek le Rat, the street artist D*Face, and the urban artist Invader. In 2010, he curated a large group show for the fifth anniversary of his gallery, and some of the works were also showcased on The New York Times website, with audio commentary by LeVine. In early 2012, Gingko Press released Delusional , a biography on LeVine and retrospective of

108-588: The contemporary artist Ron English, the visual artist and musician Daniel Johnston, and the street artist Shepard Fairey. In February 2001, LeVine opened a small gallery called Tin Man Alley in New Hope, Pennsylvania. Tin Man Alley initially sold vintage toys, novelty items, and lowbrow art. LeVine moved his gallery in 2005 to Manhattan, New York City. In January 2005, LeVine opened the Jonathan LeVine Gallery to

120-537: The foundation and development of the Jonathan LeVine Gallery. In it, the author notes LeVine "has nourished a much needed alternative viewpoint within the stilted New York art market." Later that year, the gallery presented Détournement: Signs of the Times , an anticipated group exhibition by curator Carlo McCormick, which featured work by the street artist and realist painter Dan Witz, the photographer and artist Jack Pierson, and Ron English. Nicola Verlato's How The West Was Won

132-510: The opening exhibition, entitled Welcome to New Jersey , highlighted street, pop surrealism, and hyper realism art. In 2017 and 2018, LeVine held the Delusional Art Competition, which allows emerging artists the opportunity for solo exhibition in his gallery. In 2018, LeVine relocated the gallery to 150 Bay Street in Jersey City. In the 1990s, LeVine played in a band called Drywater that reformed in 2016, as Cyclone Static . LeVine

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144-412: Was also shown that year. In early 2014, the gallery expanded to a second location in Chelsea, Manhattan, and that same year LeVine partnered with the art magazine Juxtapoz to present Art Truancy: Celebrating 20 Years of Juxtapoz Magazine . In 2017, the gallery relocated to Jersey City, New Jersey, and was renamed as Jonathan LeVine Projects. It was located at the cultural center Mana Contemporary , and

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