For over a decade Levine has been painting an ongoing series of portraits of contemporary music’s pioneers, which she has adapted into a series of children’s books. Fans of Honky-Tonk Heroes include country music legend George Jones (“It will have a permanent place on the Jones family bookshelf for generations to come.”) and Rosanne Cash, who called Levine’s portraits “striking, museum-quality folk paintings.”

Laura Levine is a self-taught artist whose paintings are in the permanent collections of the Museum of International Folk Art, Galleria Comunale d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea (Rome) and the House of Blues, and have been exhibited at Experience Music Project, Copro-Nason Gallery, Kunstmuseum Luzern (Switzerland), and the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and Museum.

Her paintings are in numerous private collections, including those of Harry Shearer &
Judith Owen, Nora Ephron, Lisa Bonet, Tom Freston, Laurie & Larry David, and Cher.

Levine is also an award-winning illustrator, whose work has appeared in The New Yorker, Blab!, Rolling Stone and The New York Times Book Review, and on CD covers for Richard Thompson’s Rumor & Sigh and the Verve Essential Jazz Series. Honky-Tonk Heroes & Hillbilly Angels
(with text by Holly George-Warren) is Levine’s third children’s book. Her first two were Wig! 
(A collaboration with the B-52’s) and Shake, Rattle & Roll: The Founders of Rock & Roll.

Laura Levine’s iconic rock photography portraits have appeared in countless magazines,
album covers and books, as well as dozens of exhibitions, photography anthologies and published collections of fine art photographs. Her photographs are in the permanent collection of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and Museum and numerous private collections. Levine’s short subject and feature-length film documentaries have screened at over a dozen film festivals, including the Sundance Film Festivaland theEdinburgh International Film Festival.

In her spare time, Levine - who grew up in New York City's Chinatown and graduated from Harvard University - is the proprietress of Homer & Langley's Mystery Spot, an antique/ junk/oddities shop in Phoenicia, New York. You can read more about Laura Levine and
her work at her website, www.lauralevine.com.

This is Levine’s second one-person show at La Luz de Jesus. Copies of Honky-Tonk Heroes & Hillbilly Angels will be available for signing at the exhibit.