Contemporary artist Lon Levin will present Paintings, Prints and Pen & Ink at Gallery 69, an exhibition bringing together multiple bodies of work shaped by a lifetime in art, design, storytelling, and visual experimentation.

Before relocating to San Miguel de Allende, Levin spent decades working inside the Hollywood entertainment industry in senior creative roles, developing campaigns and visual concepts for major motion pictures, television properties, and international media brands. That experience—where image, emotion, and narrative collide under pressure—continues to influence the rhythm, scale, and cinematic quality of his artwork today.

But it was San Miguel de Allende that redirected the work inward.

Surrounded by the city’s remarkable community of artists, musicians, writers, actors, and creative thinkers, Levin found a renewed sense of artistic freedom and personal voice. The energy of San Miguel—its color, contradictions, intimacy, and creative openness—became a catalyst for a more personal and exploratory body of work.

The exhibition includes three interconnected series:

Shared Waters

A contemporary exploration of oceans, rivers, lakes, and waterways that examines both the beauty and fragility of the natural world. These works blend abstraction and flowing organic systems to reflect environmental tension, climate concerns, and humanity’s relationship with water.

Celebración Romántica

Paintings celebrating romance, intimacy, sensuality, and emotional connection through bold color, symbolic imagery, and contemporary figurative language.

Expat Pen & Inks

A more observational and intimate series inspired by everyday life in San Miguel de Allende. Executed in pen and ink, these works capture moments, personalities, architecture, and cultural fragments filtered through the perspective of an artist living between worlds.

For Levin, moving fluidly between painting, printmaking, and pen and ink is not a stylistic exercise—it is essential to the creative process itself.

“Different ideas demand different mediums,” Levin explains. “Some concepts need the immediacy of ink. Others need the layering and atmosphere of paint or the precision and experimentation of printmaking. I try to let the work tell me what it wants to become.”

The result is an exhibition unified not by a single visual style, but by a consistent artistic voice—one balancing humor, beauty, tension, observation, and emotional honesty.