2012 SEWE Gallery
These artists are for the 2012 SEWE weekend. Click here for all 2011 artists!
Sol Levine
Sol’s award winning photography emphasizes flora, fauna and landscapes capturing the beauty and grace of the outdoors. He participates in wildlife and fine art shows in various locales on the East coast. Sol’s most recent award was in a Canon World-wide Photo Contest. He is a member of, among others, the North Carolina Wildlife Artists Society, the Carolina Nature Photographer’s Association, Wake Forest Area Artists, Canon Professional Services and, recently, the American Guild of Judaic Art. He is self-taught with some training through the NY Institute of Photography and some workshops/seminars.
Sol’s work has been published in books, magazines and calendars. He has presented several solo and has participated in multi-artist exhibitions at various venues. Included among these: the US Department of Interior Museum, two Departement of Interior Regional Headquarters, Daggerwing Nature Center (Boca Raton, FL), the National Wildlife Visitor’s Center, Sertoma Arts Center, Town of Cary (three venues), Durham’s Museum of Life and Science, the Rosenzwieg Gallery, and the Wake Forest Art and Frame Shop. Others are presently scheduled for the Watuga Country Arts Council and the Lenoir, NC Arts Council. Fujifilm has used Sol’s photographs in show booths and two were chosen for an exhibition celebrating the 100th anniversary of the National Wildlife Refuge System. Other work includes the covers of the TriCounty (NC) Telephone Directory, two Hyde County (NC) Tourism Guides, the Hyde County website, and the cover of the United Synagogue for Conservative Judaism calendar. Recently, several images were included In a book celebrating the 100th birthday of the Town of Wake Forest and a NC Wildlife Commission Educational brochure.
Sol presents outdoor photography workshops in various locales. Sponsors have included the NC Estuarium, Raleigh Parks and Recreation, Cary Parks and Recreation, Wake Forest Parks, Durham Arts Council, the Town of Holly Springs and the National Wildlife Visitor’s Center (Laurel, MD).
His notecards and photographs are sold in diverse places such as bookstores, gift shops, floral centers of food markets, galleries and the National (Department of Interior) Wildlife Visitor’s Center. He has provided office décor for businesses and medical facilities; Sol’s photographs are in collections in the US, Korea, Japan, Canada and England.
Sol has a PhD in chemistry and in prior lives, was a chemist at IBM for over 29 yrs., helped teach a course at Cornell University and the University of Sherebrook (Quebec). Since leaving IBM, he has taught chemistry at Durham Technical Community College, NCCU and has been at NC State for the last several years, where he is now lecturer emertius. He has authored dozens of papers, book chapters and a laboratory manual and holds several patents. He presents chemistry outreach programs sponsored by NCSU to various schools and for the American Chemical Society at the NC Museum of Natural Science.
Artist Hometown: Wake Forest, NC
Artist Email: naturpix@mindspring.com
Artist's Website: Sol Levine