It wasn't until 2007 that Adam Leveille fell in love with landscape painting on a trip to Acadia National Park. Since then, Leveille has sought to depict the beauty in the mundane. Drawing inspiration from construction sites, dirtied roads, and other beautifully plain scenes, the artist most often works with direct observations to represent still-life photos. Taken with the tension between fantasy and reality, the urban and rural landscapes, and the extraordinary complexities of everyday life, Leveille presents these relationships with the depth of his oil-based realism.
He was born in western Massachusetts and grew up on a farm in rural New Hampshire. Leveille received a bachelor’s of fine arts degree at Montserrat College in 2002 and completed a Plein Air Artist Residency at Seps Farm in 2017. Having explored different methods including mural painting, bookbinding, printmaking, and sculpture, the artist primarily works with painting mediums at his studio in Somerville, MA.
