Bette Levine is the Digital & Photography Artist Spotlight winning artist for the month of October 2017. She is a California based photographer and digital artist who is known for her mix of digital photography and artistic techniques that compels the viewer to participate in the story created by the photo-art composition.

Bette’s Solo Art Exhibition will be featured on the website for the entire month of October 2017. The gallery will promote Bette and her work on the Fusion Art website, individual online press releases to hundreds of outlets, email blasts, in online event calendars, art news websites and through the gallery’s extensive social media outlets.  Fusion Art’s objective is to promote the Artist Spotlight winning artists, worldwide, to art professionals, gallerists, collectors and buyers.

Please read Bette’s Biography and Artist Statement below as she describes her history, inspiration and process in her own words. Scroll to the bottom of the page to see Bette’s exhibition.

If you are interested in purchasing any of these award-winning pieces, or to see more of Bette’s work, please visit her website.

Also, please visit Fusion Art’s YouTube Channel to see Bette’s Solo Art Exhibition Video.

Thank you to all the artists who participated in the Artist Spotlight competition and congratulations to Bette and the other Artist Spotlight winning artists.

Bette Levine Biography

Bette Levine recently relocated from Colorado, and is now a full-time resident of Palm Springs. Photography has been part of her life since childhood, taking her small camera everywhere, and then learning film developing and darkroom techniques from her amateur-photographer father, “The emerging image was like magic, ” she recalls. Her mother was a canvas artist, and palette knife, brushes, and paint skills were equally exciting. Fast forward to this new age of digital photography and post-production and she now no longer has to choose which to work with – photography, or art. Now it all merges together: photo-art. The magic of the darkroom, the motion created by added a line, the attitude of a texture. Her work is displayed both online and in local art shows.

Bette Levine Artist Statement

My single goal, as a photographer, is to engage the viewer in a narrative. I want you to join me in the image, and be compelled by it to sense a story. An empty bench might be where someone is coming — or just left, perhaps will come back for what was left there, or perhaps intends to meet someone there. It is, without question, a most compelling subject for me. There are other seating arrangements I feel a need to photograph and share – somewhat like a living journal: people seated in the same space but seeming to be so far apart, or chairs lined up and either no longer of service or waiting for something to happen. I hope this collection sparks your curiosity to come into the scene. What’s the story?

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