Artist talk by Andrew Leventis exploring his painting style and its connection to the Baroque tradition, part of the Caravaggio | Revolution exhibition.
Andrew Leventis will be at The Mint Museum Uptown on Sunday, October 11, for an artist talk titled Shadow Play: The Caravaggesque in My Approach to Painting. He's a North Carolina painter who works within the still-life tradition, turning everyday objects and spaces into meditations on domesticity, consumption, intimacy, and the passage of time. The talk is part of the museum's programming around Caravaggio | Revolution: Baroque Masterpieces from the Roberto Longhi Foundation, which is on view at Mint Museum Uptown on Level 4 from April 26 to October 25, 2026.
That exhibition hangs one original Caravaggio, Boy Bitten by a Lizard, alongside more than 40 works by Baroque masters who painted in his style, all on loan from the Roberto Longhi Foundation in Florence. Caravaggio died at 38, and his revolutionary use of light and shadow—chiaroscuro—shattered 17th-century conventions and ignited a movement across Europe. The show links that 400-year-old spark to contemporary film and photography, with commentary from Martin Scorsese, Isaac Julien, David LaChapelle, and Tom Hunter, and music videos like R.E.M.'s Losing My Religion and Johnny Cash's Hurt.
Leventis' talk sits right in that conversation. If you've been following the Caravaggio | Revolution exhibition, this is a chance to hear a working painter talk through how that same play of light and shadow figures into his own approach. It's a good companion to the show, especially if you're interested in how a Baroque technique still finds its way into contemporary painting.
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The talk runs from 2 PM to 3 PM on Sunday, October 11, at The Mint Museum Uptown in Charlotte, and it's free.
