User:Lisa Levy/sandbox

Lisa Levy Born 	Lisa Levy May 11, 1956 (age 57) New York City, New York United States Other names 	Dr. Lisa Dr. Lisa Levy, S.P. (Self-Proclaimed)

Lisa Levy (also known as Dr. Lisa and Dr. Lisa Levy, S.P. (Self-Proclaimed) — born Lisa Levy on May 11, 1966 in New York City, New York) Lisa Levy is a painter, conceptual artist, comedian (self-proclaimed) psychotherapist, and former advertising art director from Bushwick, Brooklyn, New York. Lisa’s visual career started when she was 3 1/2 when she was sent to the children’s art school at MOMA. Her father was an architect for public housing in New York City and later, Philadelphia. Lisa went to PS. 40 on 20th Street and First Avenue from kindergarten through 2nd grade. She moved to Elkins Park, Pennsylvania at the end of second grade and lived there until she went to Syracuse University where she studied illustration.

Lisa moved to New York City immediately after graduation from Syracuse. She found a job as an art director at age 26 and worked in that business until 2009.

Category:Art Projects

Lisa's first conceptual art project was in 1978 when she created and sold "Studio 54 REJECT T-shirts" to the rejects standing outside Studio 54. Some of the other projects she's done involve creating a legal will with The Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts leaving all her possessions as chosen by her friends. She also stole and catalogued various items over a period of four years and displayed them in a vitrine at Artist's Space. There was the time she had the window at Art in General for two months where she solicited art from the public and curated a new show in the street level window every two weeks. During the Cow Parade, Manhattan was littered with plaster decorated cow and Lisa made 50 brown cement cow pies and surreptitiously glued them under the public cow sculptures in Manhattan.

Category:Television Appearences Lisa has been on television 7 times for completely unrelated reasons.

• 1986 Late Night with David Letterman: For Stupid Pet Tricks, Lisa brought her hamster on in a clear plastic ball and a "bowling alley" with plastic pins. The hamster was a self-propelled bowling ball and took down most of the pins. A clip of this trick appeared on the Late Night 10th Anniversary Special.

• 1987 Channel 5 News: Lisa won the grand prize of $83,000 in an advertising contest for Hebrew National Salami. Her slogan was "There's more fat on her than on our salami which was pared with a slim model.

• 1989 The Today Show: Lisa • 1996 VH1: Lisa was interview by AJ Hammer and featured in a segment about a Gen Art show called Art Market.

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Lisa has had feature stories about her work in The New York Times, “A Shrink with Stage Presence...”, The London Times “Riotously Funny...”, Time Out New York, The Huffington Post and Psychology Tomorrow Magazine. She is currently the advice columnist for The Bushwick Daily.

In addition to making her own art, Lisa is always looking for different ways to use her creativity. She has won an Absolut Vodka photography contest with a photo from a photo booth; and a Hebrew National Salami advertising contest, garnering the top prize of $83,000 and a spot on David Letterman’s Stupid Pet Tricks with her hamster that bowled. She also has many other strange, random television appearances that she has orchestrated behind the scenes on The Today Show, VH1, The People’s Court and more, which can be seen at www.youtube.com/lisalevy. For more about Lisa’s work, go to www.lisalevyindustries.com. Her work is also available through ArtStar.com.