Sherrie Levine

New York

For the first time, appropriation artist Sherrie Levine is exhibiting at David Zwirner gallery. Installations and paintings mingle in this show, all linked by the American artist’s interest in borrowed subject matter, repetition and difference.

Levine’s approach challenges and upsets presumptions on what art market considers to be ‚an original‘. She appropriates the works of renown artists’. One of the most iconic works she appropriated, is Walker Evans’ photo of Alli Mae Burroughs that has become a symbol of the Great Despression. In 1989, Levine began her Meltown series that now forms the core of the exhibition. This group of monochrome paintings is inspired by Auguste Renoir’s Impressionist compositions reworked through an algorithm that creates checkerboards. Along with the paintings, there are some ready-made pieces such as refrigerators coming from Levine’s love for The World of Interiors magazine. Each and every piece are a reference and homage to known works, turning a critical gaze on the art, its recognition and acknowledgment.

After Walker Evans: 4, 1981, Gelatin silver print, 18 3/4 x 14 3/4 x 1 1/4 inches (47.6 x 37.5 x 3.2 cm)

Fountain (Buddha), 1996, Cast bronze, 19 x 16 x 14 inches (48.3 x 40.6 x 35.6 cm)

David Zwirner

February 24 – April 2, 2016

537 West 19th Street
New York, NY 10011
USA

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