Matthew L. Levy is Assistant Professor of Art History at Penn State Erie, the Behrend College. His writing has appeared in The Brooklyn Rail and Journal of Contemporary Painting, as well as in exhibition catalogues for the National Gallery of Canada and Museum Wiesbaden. He is presently working on a book manuscript about the status of abstract painting within the discourses of Minimalism, with a particular focus on the work of Robert Mangold, David Novros, and Jo Baer. His essay, “Specific Painting: David Novros, Donald Judd, and 101 Spring Street,” was recently published in the anthology, In Terms of Painting, published by Revolver Publishing.

David Novros was born in 1941 in Los Angeles, CA, and received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Southern California in 1963. His work was first exhibited in a two-person show with Mark di Suvero in 1965 at the Park Place Gallery in New York. Novros had his first one-person shows at Park Place Gallery and Dwan Gallery the following year. His work has been exhibited in prominent venues, including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; the Nelson-Atkins Museum, Kansas City; the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; the Dallas Museum of Fine Art, Dallas; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; and the Bremen Museum of Modern Art, Bremen, Germany. The artist currently lives and works in New York City.