MON LEVINSON (1926–2014)

Op Art sculptor Mon Levinson has passed away at the age of eighty-eight. Levinson became known for his work with Plexiglas. Fusing congruent layers of the material incised with fine lines, he likened his artistic process to “discovering physics,” reports Roberta Smith of the New York Times. His work was first included in the “New Forms—New Media” exhibition Martha Jackson Gallery in New York in 1960; he later exhibited at the John Weber Gallery and Mitchell Algus Gallery. His art is included in public collections at institutions including the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Brooklyn Museum, and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington. In a 1971 review of Levinson’s work, Grace Glueck wrote in the New York Times that these works “are immaculately crafted and do no violence to the dictum that less is more.”