Levy explores painting, drawing, collage, printmaking and murals to create large scale works on paper, canvas or site specific walls, depicting everyday urban experiences of South African daily life. Themes such as people engaged in contemplative activities, daily rituals and routines and how we are able to find genuine non-performative accounts of our experience. These works are a dance between figurative and abstract ways of representation where line and form are in a constant conversation. The artist's practice is an interrogation on the idea of art as a public social diary that questions the socio political, social interactions, history and the traces of that history that remain. He joined the global JP Morgan Chase Art Collection in 2023 and has recently completed a large-scale mural at the historic Bag Factory exterior walls titled “for Koloane” an ode to one of the founders; David Koloane. 

My work begins with drawings of quotidian scenes that I experience. Chalk is used to speak to the fragility and temporality of ourselves, life, and everything we experience. Black in the works symbolizes race. The cutting and tearing (collage) is an experimentation premised on interruption, memory and erasure. And so the coming together of these elements and making anew of work is an investigation of the perpetual state of unmaking and remaking we are in as people, particularly black working class people, in South Africa and the many ways we contort and offer our bodies to systems. Concurrently, the collage also seeks to question reality and the unseen, mystical and otherworldly possibilities – how far one can take this as human and artist – by exploring the stretching of form, and anatomy..