Artists' Fellowship - 1987
Painting
Artist Statement:
I continued work on several series of paintings.
More about the Artist:
Sherrie Levine is best known for her photographic and conceptual work, which often includes direct image appropriation; her 1981 solo exhibition at the Metro Pictures gallery After Walker Evans featured images photographed by Levine from Evans’ catalogue. She has also photographed or re-made works by Van Gogh, Marcel Duchamp, and Ferdinand Leger. Her appropriation often comments on the ownership and political use of image in terms of class, identity, and creativity.
Levine said in an interview with Constance Lewallen for the Journal of Contemporary Art:
“I am interested in making a work that has as much aura as its reference. For me the tension between the reference and the new work doesn't really exist unless the new work has an auratic presence of its own. Otherwise, it just becomes a copy, which is not that interesting.”
Levine’s work has been shown in galleries and museums worldwide. Including the Dallas Museum of Art, The Guggenheim Museum in New York City, The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Astrup Fearnley Museet for Moderne Kunst in Norway, the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen in Germany, MAMco in Geneva, and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles.
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