Linda Levi (born 1935) is an American artist who lives and works in Los Angeles, California. Early life and education Born in Los Angeles, Levi was educated at Los Angeles High School, University of California, Berkeley, and the University of California at Los Angeles, CA., (1958, BA. Cum laude 1960, MA) Art beginnings She began as an abstract expressionist influenced by New York City, San Francisco, the artists at Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles, Ed Moses, Robert Irwin, Craig Kauffman many who were her friends, and teachers like Adolph Gottlieb and Richard Diebenkorn. In 1958, she traveled to New York and through artist Helen Frankenthaler, she met and visited with well-known artists Mark Rothko, Sam Francis, and Ibram Lassaw. In 1958 and 1959 she won painting and purchase awards at Los Angeles County Museum of Art and The Municipal Art Gallery, Barnsdale Park, Los Angeles. She was included in "Fifty Paintings by Thirty-seven Painters of the Los Angeles Area," UCLA Art Galleries, University of California, Los Angeles, CA. A 1960 survey of thirty years of Los Angeles Art curated by Henry T. Hopkins future Director of San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. New York City She moved to New York in 1960, and leased the studio of Jon Schueler. She met Jon's friend, painter and critic, Herman Cherry, whom she dated, and sculptor Gabriel Kohn (exhibited at Leo Castelli), with whom she lived. Through these artists she met and became friends with leading abstract expressionist artists including Willem de Kooning and Reuben Kadish and his wife Barbara Weeks Kadish. With Kohn, she frequented the Cedar Tavern along with other artists of the day. She also had artist friends from Los Angeles, Jo Baer and Idelle Weber, who had moved to New York. Her direction was changed after living in New York City from 1960. She saw that abstract expressionist was coming to an end and began to paint images around her like gas meters and cameras. But that was short-lived as she felt that abstract painting was still relevant. Los Angeles Upon her return to Los Angeles, she began to paint abstract imagery using many mediums like paint, plastic, wood, and worked with light and kinetic movement. She had her first gallery show in 1965 at the Esther Robles gallery in Los Angeles. In the 1960s, she was part of the Los Angeles movement of plastic and light artists and was