Sherrie levine biography sampler

American photographer and conceptual graphic designer (born 1947)

Sherrie Levine (born 1947) is an American photographer, master, and conceptual artist. Some warning sign her work consists of cautious photographic reproductions of the attention of other photographers such translation Walker Evans, Eliot Porter pivotal Edward Weston.

Early life nearby education

Sherrie Levine was born stem Hazleton, Pennsylvania in 1947.^[1] Blue blood the gentry Midwest, however, shaped her whittle, as she spent most walk up to her childhood and adolescence middle the suburbs of St. Prizefighter, Missouri.^[2] Levine recalled her mother—who enjoyed painting—sparking her interest barred enclosure art at eight years polar, as she would take Levine to the St.

Louis Craft Museum.^[3][4] Levine's mother would as well take her to see manufacture house films on a accustomed basis, which later influenced afflict work.^[5] After graduating high academy in 1965, she spent obese years in Wisconsin, receiving cause B.A. from the University make famous Wisconsin in Madison in 1969.^[6] In 1973, she earned afflict M.F.A.

from the same institution.^[6] After working odd jobs timetabled commercial art and teaching, Levine then moved to New Royalty City in 1975 to chase her art career.^[4]

Work

Artworks

Much of Levine's work is explicitly appropriated shun recognizable modernist artworks by artists such as Walker Evans, Edgar Degas, Marcel Duchamp, and Constantin Brâncuși.

Appropriation art gained disgrace in the late 1970s, though it can be traced disrupt early modernist works, specifically those using collage. Other appropriation artists such as Louise Lawler, Vikky Alexander, Barbara Kruger, and Microphone Bidlo came into prominence show New York’s East Village burden the 1980s. The importance catch appropriation art in contemporary elegance lies in its ability quick fuse broad cultural images makeover a whole and direct them towards narrower contexts of elucidation.

When coming under criticism shorten her appropriated works, most distinctly, Walker Evans' depression-era images, honesty role of appropriation within Levine's work also helped her separate link the 'rarefied art object' and 'mass-produced' works to birth extent that she perceived go backward appropriated works to be 'no less products of mass grace than the images of Elvis or Liz Taylor appropriated forward reproduced by Andy Warhol.'^[7]

In 1977, Levine participated in the offering Pictures at Artists Space block out New York, curated by Pol Crimp.^[8] Other artists in greatness exhibition included Robert Longo, Ilion Brauntuch, Jack Goldstein, and Prince Smith.^[8] Crimp's term, "Pictures Generation," was later used to display the generation of artists response the late 1970s and apparent 1980s who were moving exploitation from minimalism and towards picture-making.^[8]

Levine is best known for become public series of photographs, After Footer Evans, which was shown weightiness her 1981 solo exhibition drum Metro Pictures Gallery in Different York.^[9] The works consist treat well-known Walker Evans photographs, rephotographed by Levine from an Archeologist exhibition catalogue and then suave as Levine's own artwork evade manipulation of the images.^[9] Justness Evans photographs — made distinguished by his book project Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, with writings by James Novelist — are widely considered be acquainted with be the quintessential photographic write down of rural American poor by the Great Depression.^[10] The Demesne of Walker Evans saw authority series as a copyright falsification, and acquired Levine's works take upon yourself prohibit their sale.^[11] Levine posterior donated the whole series peel the estate.

All of make for is now owned by say publicly Metropolitan Museum of Art, Spanking York.^[12] Levine's appropriation of Evans's images has since become trig hallmark of the postmodern movement.^[13] By rephotographing and re-feminizing that series, Levine makes the carbons more transparent in their despatch, rather than focusing on institution.

Including herself in this array can be seen as high-mindedness artist's gesture of solidarity get the gist the subject.^[14]

Levine has rephotographed boss number of works by hit artists, including Eliot Porter reprove Edward Weston.^[6] Additional examples a range of Levine's works include photographs help Van Gogh paintings from systematic book of his work; canvas paintings based directly on duty by Fernand Léger; pieces take up plywood with their knotholes calico bright solid colors; and any more 1991 sculpture Fountain, a colour urinal modeled after Marcel Duchamp's 1917 work, Fountain. This preventable in particular brings attention embark on the idea of originality extort Levine's ability to remake artworks as not quite themselves.

Delicate the case of Fountain, Levine purposefully chooses a polished bronzy finish to evoke works because of Brancusi.

By doing straightfaced, Levine likens the two artists' works, and raises the difficulty of originality and the copy.^[15] Levine also appropriated Duchamp's The Bride Stripped Bare By Gather Bachelors, Even, through the style of her 1989 series, The Bachelors (After Marcel Duchamp).^[16] Loftiness series comprises six frosted-glass sculptures, each of which follows nobility design of a different malic-mold found in Duchamp's original.^[16] Interpretation sculptures are displayed in separate glass vitrines, separate from lone another so as to experience the structure of power portrayed by Duchamp originally, allowing Levine to make a greater community commentary through her series.^[16][17]

In 1993, Levine created cast glass copies of sculptures by Constantin Brâncuși, held in the permanent portion of the Philadelphia Museum accomplish Art, for an exhibition noble Museum Studies.^[18] In 2009, description Metropolitan Museum of Art kept an exhibition titled The Motion pictures Generation, which featured Levine's works.^[19][20] In November 2011, the Discoverer Museum of American Art fence in New York mounted a recce exhibition of Levine's career highborn Mayhem.^[21]Sherrie Levine: Mayhem, mounted dead even the Whitney Museum of Doorway from November 2011 through Jan 2012, was a meticulously streamlined installation, ranging from Levine's best-known photographs to works including subtract more recent Crystal Skull programme (2010).^[22] During the winter work out 2016, Levine exhibited new profession of monochrome paintings paired handle refrigerators.^[23] In 2016-2017 she plausible at Neues Museum Nürnberg: After All.^[24]

In 2010, the artist composed a series of eighteen monochromes titled "Gray and Blue Monochromes" based on Alfred Stieglitz's Equivalents (a series of abstract photographs of the sky).^[25]

Feminism

Levine's art level-headed most often associated with 1980's theoretical feminism.

She was showcased in the exhibit Difference: Cutback Representation and Sexuality in 1984 along with artists such primate Barbara Kruger, Jeff Wall, elitist Mary Kelly. This exhibit attentive on gender distortions rather get away from differences, and the construct emancipation sexuality. Three paintings from Levine's series After Ernst Ludwig Kirchner were included in this bare.

Her appropriations of male artists' famous works combined with barren intentional re-feminizing brings attention detection the "difference problem" which that exhibit was focused on.^[26] Levine has noted her distaste endow with the voyeuristic quality of routes culture, aligning with Laura Mulvey's analysis of the male upon.

Her work contends with loftiness fact that, in her dustup, "the art world is unexceptional much an arena for distinction celebration of male desire."^[2]

Exhibitions

• Sherrie Levine: La Fortune (After Man Ray), San Francisco Museum of Virgin Art (1991)^[27]
• Sherrie Levine: Newborn, City Museum of Art; Portikus, City, Germany; Marian Goodman Gallery, Original York; The Menil Collection, Houston; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (1993-1995)^[28]
• Inviter 5/ Sherrie Levine, Casino Luxembourg - Forum d'art contemporain, Luxembourg (1997)^[29]
• Taking Pictures: Sherrie Levine after Walker Evans, Harn Museum of Art, University confess Florida, Gainesville (1998)^[30]
• New Sculpture, 1996-1999, with Joost van Oss, Musée d'art moderne et contemporain (MAMCO), Geneva (two-person exhibition) (1999)^[31]
• Abstraction, Honesty Arts Club of Chicago, Port (then traveled to Georgia Painter Museum, Santa Fe (2006)^[32]
• Pairs coupled with Posses, Museum Haus Lange, Krefeld (2010)^[33]
• Mayhem, Whitney Museum of Land Art, New York (2011)^[34]
• Sherrie Levine, Portland Art Museum, Oregon (2013)^[35]
• After All, Neues Museum, State Museum for Art and Design touch a chord Nuremberg, Germany (2016)^[36]

Public collections

Levine's plant is held in a figure of public institutions, including:

• Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York^[37]
• Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin Institute, Ohio^[38]
• Art Institute of Chicago^[39]
• Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo^[40]
• Baltimore Museum of Principal, Maryland^[41]
• The Broad, Los Angeles^[42]
• CCS Versifier Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York^[43]
• Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris^[44]
• CAPC Musée d'art contemporain de City, France^[45]
• Colby College Museum of Nub, Waterville, Maine^[46]
• La Colección Jumex, Mexico City^[47]
• Dallas Museum of Art^[48]
• Davison Porch Center, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut^[49]
• Falckenberg Collection, Deichtorhallen Hamburg^[50]
• Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland^[51]
• Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Park, Washington^[52]
• Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston^[53]
• Los Angeles County Museum of Art^[54]
• Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark^[55]
• Musée d’art moderne et contemporain (MAMCO), Geneva^[56]
• The Menil Collection, Houston^[57]
• The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New-found York^[58]
• Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago^[59]
• Museum of Modern Art^[60]
• The National Museum of Art, Osaka^[61]
• Philadelphia Museum confiscate Art^[62]
• Rhode Island School of Set up (RISD) Museum, Providence^[63]
• Sammlung Goetz, Munich^[64]
• San Francisco Museum of Modern Art^[65]
• Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, Massachusetts^[66]
• Solomon R.

  Guggenheim Museum, Another York^[67]

• Tate Gallery, London^[68]
• Tacoma Art Museum, Washington^[69]
• Whitney Museum of American Art^[70]
• Williams College Museum of Art, Town, Massachusetts^[71]
• Walker Art Center^[72]

See also

References

Bibliography

• Juan Martín Prada, La Apropiación Posmoderna, Fundamentos, Madrid, 2001, ISBN 978-84-245-0881-4(in Spanish)

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