Jessica Levine
Jessica Levine is a sculptor and metal fabricator from South Lake Tahoe, CA. She attended UC Santa Cruz where she studied fine art and sociology, and ultimately found her love for welding. Jessica creates large elaborate works that offer reflections on complex emotions and what it means to be human. She uses steel to “draw” in physical space, hand forming and welding each piece of steel to match the images within her mind. Jessica has built four large scale sculptures for Burning Man, with the last one including an interactive fire mechanism.
Jessica has exhibited her works at festivals internationally, and completed many private large-scale commissions, with some of her works being presented on temporary public display. She is a licensed welding contractor and owner of Bear Metal Welding in South Lake Tahoe, CA. LIC# 1077544
Life Labyrinth
“Life Labyrinth is a metal sculpture composed of thousands of tiny straight pieces of 1⁄4” and 3/16” steel round bar. These pieces are welded into shapes that resemble veins and arteries, which come together to create a life size human form standing at 6’5” tall. LED RGB color changing spotlights illuminate the many layers of the sculpture, giving it an electric look. This electric feel” represents the electrical impulses of the nervous system in a human body. The straight pieces of metal within Life Labyrinth are strategically formed into organic planes, creating an interesting dichotomy of hard lines against natural curves of a human body. This dichotomy correlates to the often opposing and conflicting patterns of being a human–heart vs head, love vs hate, etc. The face, feet, and hands all have circular “portals” with swirling spirals of metal, giving movement and a bit of abstraction to the ever recognizable human form.
These portals, or labyrinths, create a metaphor for the cyclical themes of being a human, such as thought loops, repeated behaviors, and ultimately the circle of life. This sculpture is entirely handmade and free sculpted piece by piece without the use of forms or guides. It has been made over the course of years with leftover pieces of steel from other projects–a true labor of love.”
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