Joyce R. Levin was born in Philadelphia, PA and extensively traveled the United States in her late teens and early twenties. She finally came to Arizona, starting out in Sedona, to Flagstaff and then settling in Phoenix. In 1996, Levin started creating art and integrating it with her creative writing. Levin received her Creative Writing Certificate from Phoenix College in 1998 and then attended Arizona State University and received her Bachelors Degree in photography and printmaking, graduating in 2001. Levin has shown throughout Phoenix and Tempe, AZ including the Arizona State University Step Gallery, The Harry Wood Gallery, The Paulina Miller Gallery, The Mesa Museum for Youth, Artlab 16, and several other galleries and art spaces included in the Phoenix Artlink First Friday's.
In 2000 Levin co-founded Treehouse 29, an art space created to give local visual artists, performance artists, and musicians a free platform for viewing and performance.
J. Levin's work is based on personal experiences throughout her lifetime. This includes the deconstruction of political, family, race, and gender issues, as well as the illustration of more simplistic life encounters. Although Levin's work, as in many artists, is a demonstration of her growth, interests, and opinions, she believes they are relative to many peoples' journey through life. The main theme that transends all of her series of works is the cyclic nature of life's journey. We are introduced, grow within, move away from, rejuvenate, and revisit many issues in this world, both simple and complex. Levin's art represents that cyclic journey.
