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- "Mr. Leven handles his work with wit and sophistication"
The New York Times, September 3, 1995

- "Geoffrey Leven's whimsical found-object assemblage... shows how an artist can breathe new life into scrap metal and other discards."
The New York Times, August 3, 1997

- "The show's most overtly spirited works are Thomas McSwane's paintings on paper and Geoffrey Leven's handmade paper assemblages.... In a new twist on his longstanding fascination with raw materials found on the local beach, Mr. Leven combines them with hand-formed paper to create lively exchanges between figure and ground."
The New YorkTimes, July 18, 1999

-"Geoffrey Leven's manipulated Polaroid photographs examine the body as an object of desire, but only in his large hand-formed paper work, ''Lorelei,'' using a slice of cheesecake as a lure, does he approach the subject in stereotypical terms. The Polaroids, enhanced by waxy overpainting that blurs the details, are deliberately enigmatic, a quality reinforced by a Susan Sontag quotation about androgyny."
The New York Times, July 30, 2000

- "Mr. Leven's collages appear his own. Looking deceptively simple, they are actually complex, intriguing patterns..."
Dan's Papers Bridgehampton, August 17, 2001

- "Geoffrey Leven, cleverly illustrates the point by juxtaposing one of Warhol's popular cow posters with a naïve treatment of the same subject by an anonymous early 20th-century painter."
The New York Times, December 22, 2002

- "Mr. Leven's color photographs of flowers in natural light at different times of day capture the flowers' translucent inner glow and fragility."
The Suffolk Times, December 1, 2005