In 1977, Levine participated in the exhibition Pictures at Artists Space in New York, curated by Douglas Crimp.Fowle, Kate. "The Pictures Generation" , Frieze Magazine, Retrieved 17 November 2014. Other artists in the exhibition included Robert Longo, Troy Brauntuch, Jack Goldstein, and Philip Smith. Crimp's term, "Pictures Generation," was later used to describe the generation of artists in the late 1970s and early 1980s who were moving away from minimalism and towards picture-making.
