Michael LeVell has an innate ability to draw furniture and architecture in perfect perspective; he uses this ability to produce intricate sculptures in clay as well. His devotion to the magazine Architectural Digest inspires LeVell’s creative process. He often recreates photo spreads with his own original repeated visual motifs and color palette. Some of his works have the unique inclusion of figurative drawings, which he also instills with a sense of structure and pattern. LeVell is one of the original eight artists who helped found the Claremont studio program in 1989 and was honored with a retrospective exhibition in 2014 to celebrate First Street Gallery’s 15th Anniversary. His work has been shown and sold around the world in such locations as Los Angeles, New York City, Boston, San Francisco and Japan. He was born in 1964 and lives in Pomona, California.