Biography

I try to make art which celebrates doubt and uncertainty. Which provokes answers but doesn't give them. Which withholds absolute meaning by incorporating parasite meanings. Which suspends meaning while perpetually dispatching you toward interpretation, urging you beyond dogmatism, beyond doctrine, beyond ideology, beyond authority.

Appropriation artist Sherrie Levine, a founding member of The Pictures Generation, is well known for her collections of photographs lifted directly from the work of mostly male modern masters, such as After Walker Evans (1981), After Cézanne (2007) and After August Sander (2012). Raising questions about originality and authenticity, Levine re-photographs, abstracts or digitizes these images, making them “ghosts” of the original images. “I want to put a picture on top of a picture,” Levine says. “This makes for times when both disappear and other times when they’re both visible.” Her sculptures and paintings examine similar concerns, as in polished...
Works
  • SL Bunch_of_Asparagus
    Sherrie Levine
    Asparagus (signed and numbered on the reverse), 2015
    Gyclee inkjet prints (9 parts)
    9 x 20.4 x 25.5 cm
    3 8/16 x 8 1/16 x 10 1/16 in
    Framing Dimensions: 9 x 40.9 x 51 cm
  • Sherrie Levine, African Masks After Walker Evans: 1-24, 2014
    Sherrie Levine
    African Masks After Walker Evans: 1-24, 2014
    Giclee Inkjet Prints (images sizes varied)
    framing dimensions : 54.7 x 39.5 x 2.8 cm - each
  • SL 2013 After Da Vinci
    Sherrie Levine
    After da Vinci, 2013
    Digital Print unframed
    18 x 25.5 x 20.3 cm
    7 1/16 x 10 1/16 x 7 15/16 in
  • DSC_2401
    Sherrie Levine
    Green Skull, 2012
    crystal glass
    14 x 18 x 11 cm
    5 8/16 x 7 1/16 x 4 5/16 in
  • SLE-217-SC-side1
    Sherrie Levine
    Silver Mirror : 4, 2010
    Frosted mirror maple frame
    51 x 41 cm
    20 1/16 x 16 2/16 in
    Framing Dimensions: 53.7 x 43.5 x 2.5 cm
  • SL 2008 False God
    Sherrie Levine
    False God, 2008
    Bronze
    62.2 x 58.4 x 22.8 cm
    24 7/16 x 22 15/16 x 8 15/16 in
  • Sherrie Levine, Detail of the wall frieze of the Ishtar Gate (c.550 B.C.)-Striking Bull, 2007
    Sherrie Levine
    Detail of the wall frieze of the Ishtar Gate (c.550 B.C.)-Striking Bull, 2007
    Postcard on matboard
    18 x 10.5 x 14.6 cm
    7 1/16 x 4 2/16 x 5 11/16 in
  • ThreeFuries
    Sherrie Levine
    The Three Furies, 2006
    cast bronze
    36 x 70 x 34 cm
    14 2/16 x 27 8/16 x 13 6/16 in
    A: 23 x 32 x 13 cm
    B: 36 x 20 x 34 cm
    C: 30 x 35 x 22 cm
  • Sherrie Levine, Jawbone, 2005
    Sherrie Levine
    Jawbone, 2005
    Bronze with patina
    22.9 x 15.2 x 10.2 cm
    9 1/16 x 5 15/16 x 4 1/16 in
  • Sherrie Levine, After Man Ray: Man and Woman, 2005
    Sherrie Levine
    After Man Ray: Man and Woman, 2005
    Iris print on paper (2 parts)
    2 x 48.3 x 33 cm
    0 12/16 x 19 1/16 x 12 15/16 in
    2 parts 48,3x 33 cm
  • Sherrie Levine, Large Check, 1999
    Sherrie Levine
    Large Check, 1999
    Set of 6 panels duo oil on oak
    51.4 x 16.5 x 1.9 cm
    20 3/16 x 6 7/16 x 0 11/16 in
  • Sherrie Levine, Hobbyhorse, 1996
    Sherrie Levine
    Hobbyhorse, 1996
    Cast aluminium rubber
    69 x 89 x 48 cm
    27 2/16 x 35 1/16 x 18 14/16 in
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