Gene Levine

Gene Levine was raised in a family of artists. His father crafted fine silver and gold jewelry. His mother taught enameling on copper, fusing molten glass to metal. Levine majored in Fine Arts. but like so many other struggling artists, he necessarily supported himself by other means.

In 1980, the primitive graphics of the nascent personal computer industry attracted Levine's curiosity. Despite an early start with the new medium it was still many years before technological advances permitted computer artists freedom to do do as they pleased.

Always a fan of Op Art, Levine saw his first stereogram in 1997 and was smitten with both the effect and potential as an art form. It wasn't long before he taught himself the basics of producing stereogram images with his computer graphic skills. He began colorstereo.com as an online stereogram gallery and was soon thereafter requested to supply most of the stereogram art for what was to become the TJ Mook stereogram series of publications in Japan. This very successful series now has over fifty stereogram related publications.

Outside Japan he has been published in books and magazines all over the world, and been in demand for producing commercial applications using stereograms. No one has done more to elevate the stereogram as an art form.

Eventually, Levine teamed up with long time colleague and co-creator in the TJ Mook series, Gary Priester, to join optical illusion books author and webmaster Brad Honeycutt. The result is “eyeTricks 3D Stereograms” specializing in custom and stock image stereogram projects for private, public, and commercial use: changing the way people view their World one stereogram at a time.