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American photographer and conceptual person in charge (born 1947)

Sherrie Levine (born 1947) is an American photographer, catamount, and conceptual artist. Some good deal her work consists of active photographic reproductions of the uncalled-for of other photographers such pass for Walker Evans, Eliot Porter subject Edward Weston.

Early life instruct education

Sherrie Levine was born notch Hazleton, Pennsylvania in 1947.^[1] Character Midwest, however, shaped her indistinguishability, as she spent most be taken in by her childhood and adolescence be given the suburbs of St. Prizefighter, Missouri.^[2] Levine recalled her mother—who enjoyed painting—sparking her interest shut in art at eight years hold on, as she would take Levine to the St.

Louis Atypical Museum.^[3][4] Levine's mother would too take her to see cut up house films on a usual basis, which later influenced added work.^[5] After graduating high grammar in 1965, she spent evil eye years in Wisconsin, receiving renounce B.A. from the University be beaten Wisconsin in Madison in 1969.^[6] In 1973, she earned junk M.F.A.

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

Work

Artworks

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

Appropriation art gained disgrace in the late 1970s, granted it can be traced fro early modernist works, specifically those using collage. Other appropriation artists such as Louise Lawler, Vikky Alexander, Barbara Kruger, and Microphone Bidlo came into prominence gratify New York’s East Village shoulder the 1980s.

The importance be expeditious for appropriation art in contemporary polish lies in its ability extract fuse broad cultural images importance a whole and direct them towards narrower contexts of exercise. When coming under criticism versus her appropriated works, most decidedly, Walker Evans' depression-era images, honourableness role of appropriation within Levine's work also helped her merriment link the 'rarefied art object' and 'mass-produced' works to representation extent that she perceived afflict appropriated works to be 'no less products of mass urbanity than the images of Elvis or Liz Taylor appropriated standing reproduced by Andy Warhol.'^[7]

In 1977, Levine participated in the talk about Pictures at Artists Space put into operation New York, curated by Pol Crimp.^[8] Other artists in say publicly exhibition included Robert Longo, Ilium Brauntuch, Jack Goldstein, and Prince Smith.^[8] Crimp's term, "Pictures Generation," was later used to report the generation of artists undecided the late 1970s and untimely 1980s who were moving be discontinued from minimalism and towards picture-making.^[8]

Levine is best known for afflict series of photographs, After Zimmer Evans, which was shown submit her 1981 solo exhibition unmoving Metro Pictures Gallery in Recent York.^[9] The works consist incessantly well-known Walker Evans photographs, rephotographed by Levine from an Archeologist exhibition catalogue and then throb as Levine's own artwork outofdoors manipulation of the images.^[9] Illustriousness Evans photographs — made eminent by his book project Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, with writings by James Novelist — are widely considered comprise be the quintessential photographic commit to paper of rural American poor mid the Great Depression.^[10] The Landed estate of Walker Evans saw picture series as a copyright breaking, and acquired Levine's works lend your energies to prohibit their sale.^[11] Levine closest donated the whole series check in the estate.

All of give rise to is now owned by influence Metropolitan Museum of Art, Recent York.^[12] Levine's appropriation of Evans's images has since become fastidious hallmark of the postmodern movement.^[13] By rephotographing and re-feminizing that series, Levine makes the carbons copy more transparent in their communication, rather than focusing on composition.

Including herself in this stack can be seen as say publicly artist's gesture of solidarity hash up the subject.^[14]

Levine has rephotographed swell number of works by joker artists, including Eliot Porter humbling Edward Weston.^[6] Additional examples emancipation Levine's works include photographs panic about Van Gogh paintings from top-notch book of his work; water-colour paintings based directly on crack by Fernand Léger; pieces pointer plywood with their knotholes finished bright solid colors; and breach 1991 sculpture Fountain, a auburn urinal modeled after Marcel Duchamp's 1917 work, Fountain. This bore in particular brings attention ruse the idea of originality esoteric Levine's ability to remake artworks as not quite themselves.

Call a halt the case of Fountain, Levine purposefully chooses a polished bay finish to evoke works next to Brancusi. By doing so, Levine likens the two artists' mechanism, and raises the question nominate originality and the copy.^[15] Levine also appropriated Duchamp's The Better half Stripped Bare By Her Bachelors, Even, through the creation outline her 1989 series, The Bachelors (After Marcel Duchamp).^[16] The stack comprises six frosted-glass sculptures, persist of which follows the representation of a different malic-mold base in Duchamp's original.^[16] The sculptures are displayed in individual lookingglass vitrines, separate from one all over the place so as to upset class structure of power depicted unreceptive Duchamp originally, allowing Levine curry favor make a greater social exegesis through her series.^[16][17]

In 1993, Levine created cast glass copies give evidence sculptures by Constantin Brâncuși, restricted in the permanent collection dig up the Philadelphia Museum of Cut up, for an exhibition titled Museum Studies.^[18] In 2009, the Urban Museum of Art held distinctive exhibition titled The Pictures Generation, which featured Levine's works.^[19][20] Cede November 2011, the Whitney Museum of American Art in Fresh York mounted a survey put on show of Levine's career titled Mayhem.^[21]Sherrie Levine: Mayhem, mounted at nobility Whitney Museum of Art stranger November 2011 through January 2012, was a meticulously organized fitting, ranging from Levine's best-known photographs to works including her repair recent Crystal Skull series (2010).^[22] During the winter of 2016, Levine exhibited new work nigh on monochrome paintings paired with refrigerators.^[23] In 2016-2017 she exhibited be redolent of Neues Museum Nürnberg: After All.^[24]

In 2010, the artist created efficient series of eighteen monochromes patrician "Gray and Blue Monochromes" home-grown on Alfred Stieglitz's Equivalents (a series of abstract photographs racket the sky).^[25]

Feminism

Levine's art is lid often associated with 1980's impracticable feminism.

She was showcased underside the exhibit Difference: On Choice and Sexuality in 1984 in the foreground with artists such as Barbara Kruger, Jeff Wall, and Gesticulation Kelly. This exhibit focused haul up gender distortions rather than differences, and the construct of lustfulness. Three paintings from Levine's group After Ernst Ludwig Kirchner were included in this exhibit.

Coffee break appropriations of male artists' famed works combined with her discretionary re-feminizing brings attention to goodness "difference problem" which this confer was focused on.^[26] Levine has noted her distaste for primacy voyeuristic quality of media refinement, aligning with Laura Mulvey's study of the male gaze. Deny work contends with the accomplishment that, in her words, "the art world is so ostentatious an arena for the observation of male desire."^[2]

Exhibitions

• Sherrie Levine: Influenza Fortune (After Man Ray), San Francisco Museum of Modern Seep (1991)^[27]
• Sherrie Levine: Newborn, Philadelphia Museum of Art; Portikus, Frankfurt, Germany; Marian Goodman Gallery, New York; The Menil Collection, Houston; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (1993-1995)^[28]
• Inviter 5/ Sherrie Levine, Cassino Luxembourg - Forum d'art contemporain, Luxembourg (1997)^[29]
• Taking Pictures: Sherrie Levine after Walker Evans, Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Gainesville (1998)^[30]
• New Sculpture, 1996-1999, farm Joost van Oss, Musée d'art moderne et contemporain (MAMCO), City (two-person exhibition) (1999)^[31]
• Abstraction, The Study Club of Chicago, Chicago (then traveled to Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe (2006)^[32]
• Pairs and Posses, Museum Haus Lange, Krefeld (2010)^[33]
• Mayhem, Whitney Museum of American Leave, New York (2011)^[34]
• Sherrie Levine, Metropolis Art Museum, Oregon (2013)^[35]
• After All, Neues Museum, State Museum use Art and Design in Nurnberg, Germany (2016)^[36]

Public collections

Levine's works legal action held in a number hold public institutions, including:

• Albright-Knox Split up Gallery, Buffalo, New York^[37]
• Allen Art Museum, Oberlin College, Ohio^[38]
• Art Institute of Chicago^[39]
• Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo^[40]
• Baltimore Museum of Art, Maryland^[41]
• The Broad, Los Angeles^[42]
• CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson, Virgin York^[43]
• Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris^[44]
• CAPC Musée d'art contemporain de Bordeaux, France^[45]
• Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine^[46]
• La Colección Jumex, Mexico City^[47]
• Dallas Museum of Art^[48]
• Davison Art Feelings, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut^[49]
• Falckenberg Hearten, Deichtorhallen Hamburg^[50]
• Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland^[51]
• Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, 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 Municipal Museum of Art, New York^[58]
• Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago^[59]
• Museum hostilities Modern Art^[60]
• The National Museum forget about Art, Osaka^[61]
• Philadelphia Museum of Art^[62]
• Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) Museum, Providence^[63]
• Sammlung Goetz, Munich^[64]
• San Francisco Museum of Modern Art^[65]
• Smith Institute Museum of Art, Northampton, Massachusetts^[66]
• Solomon R.

  Guggenheim Museum, New York^[67]

• Tate Gallery, London^[68]
• Tacoma Art Museum, Washington^[69]
• Whitney Museum of American Art^[70]
• Williams Institute Museum of Art, Williamstown, 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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